<p>Is it true that most Ivy League female students are feminists? i have nothing against them and i totally understand them.. it's just my best female friends are all hard-core feminists.. they go around trying to find articles where women are abused or etc and gets REALLY REALLY REALLY upset for a few hours... i don't even know what to do with them sometimes... we'd be on the skytrain going out to have lunch, then she would read an article about female injustice and gets all upset... any advice?</p>
<p>Let her get upset.
And don't generalize.</p>
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Is it true that most Ivy League female students are feminists?
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I doubt that. I've seen a surprising number of female students at Harvard who seemed to be the clear opposite of feminist... whatever that is. Many of the females at Ivy league schools are aware of feminist issues (like Larry Summers' comments about women in science) but they take a rational and reasonable approach to it, without getting all emotional. I agree with darmani - not all, and probably not most girls are like your friends, so don't stereotype.</p>
<p>I think it appears that way merely because passionate people who crusade for causes tend to have go-getter qualities that universities like, feminazis included. These people who show a desire to change the world for better or for worse are usually admitted because they show initiative and contribute the all important D word: diversity.</p>
<p>I think that if you mean females who are driven and passionate... then by all means yes... thats why they were accepted</p>
<p>yes that's what i meant...and some of those females who are driven and passionate are driven and passionate about feminism.</p>
<p>According to Pat Robertson, "...the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."</p>
<p>The Washington Post, August 23, 1993</p>
<p>I have a friend who has that quote on a t-shirt. I want one.</p>
<p>Hey Lindsey! Glad to see you're still posting. I want one too...</p>
<p>lol, i don't think the problem with ur friends is that they're feminists, PW, it's that they're crazy :p</p>
<p>Not a "feminazi" (blecch) here at all - neither are most of the other women that applied to Ivies from my school. The über-feminist types tended to apply to LACs, it seemed.</p>
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According to Pat Robertson, "...the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
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<p>Wow! Now that's even nuttier than feminism.</p>
<p>not only ivy league women are feminists, so too are ivy league men (i.e. ME!)</p>
<p>that's why i sent pres. tilghman a letter of praise for setting such an incredible example as a female educator and leader. </p>
<p>long live women!</p>
<p>i <3 ilcapo. </p>
<p>also when taken into consideration radical feminists make up a small percentage of the total population of feminists anyways. most feminists really just want to acheive equal opportunity for men and women. (which is how i feel) but usually they aren't as crazy. unfortunately since the radicals (feminazis) are more noticable, people tend to remember feminists this way.</p>
<p>yeah, i used to call myself a feminist until i realized i didn't agree with the ideas for all the radicals who headed the organizations.</p>
<p>its interesting how feminazi and the soup nazi(from seinfeld) are so similar</p>
<p>radical feminists simply believe that men are the oppressors of women, a philosophy which i strongly support. how can you view things any other way? what was it 1990 before they let women in ivy club? if that isn't oppression i don't know what is.</p>
<p>radical feminists strongly believe that prostitution, pornography, and "pin up" calendars, for example, are morally objectionable as they exploit women for the benefit of man (both financially and sexually). i happen to agree.</p>
<p>i think statements like that are too general and tend to paint ALL men as being evil oppressors, which they aren't. when people start doing that, it tends to discredit what they say. women can oppress women, women also access pornography and have pin up calendars. the feminists who start ranting about all men or only men merely come off as haters, not people who want to improve society.</p>
<p>Remember elementary school? Middle School? Who was oppressing you then?(Hint: wasn't the boys)</p>
<p>nowadays girls are scared to call themselves feminists. they dont want to look too 'radical' in front of the boys, and they prefer a more moderate stance. 1950s here we come!</p>
<p>it's like when girls act stupid because it's not cool to be smart.</p>