Tag Archives: intergenerational dialogue
What We Missed
Tweet GLAAD asked folks to wear purple today, in honor of the recent LGBT teen suicides. Above is Johnny Weir’s participation (courtesy of Chloe). Another report of a gay young person’s suicide–this time Corey Jackson, a student at Oakland University. So far there are no reports of bullying as a factor in his death. I [...]
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Anna Quindlen on young women and feminism
TweetYesterday I went to the More Magazine Reinvention Convention, where one of the keynote addresses was given by Anna Quindlen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times columnist and bestselling novelist. Quindlen was interviewed by author and Good Morning America contributor Lee Woodruff. At the start of the interview, Quindlen said that she would never [...]
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Responding to Susan Faludi: On mentoring and “being seen”
TweetSusan Faludi’s recent piece in Harper’s on intergenerational conflict in the feminist movement has already provoked thoughtful rebuttals—both here on Feministing and across the feminist blogosphere. Like others, I found her stereotyping of young feminists as matricidal, materialistic, and frivolous to be insulting and unfair; choosing Courtney Martin, of all people, to represent this young [...]
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Electras talk back: Jennifer Baumgardner
Tweet We’re appreciative to Jennifer Baumgardner for adding her two cents to end our week-long series in response to Susan Faludi’s recent Harper’s article. In the late 1990s, Phyllis Chesler wrote a book called Letters to a Young Feminist. It really rankled me at the time, in part because I was part of very large [...]
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Erica Jong thinks you’re not having enough sex