Sexual Harassment and the Loneliness of the Civil Libertarian Feminist

Highly recommended article -- Sexual Harassment and the Loneliness of the Civil Libertarian Feminist by Wendy Kaminer.

Just one small part:

Civil libertarian feminists have always been a political minority, but these days we seem on the verge of extinction. Reviewing the charges of sexual harassment underlying the Title IX complaint by a group of Yale students and alumnae, I can't find feminism -- at least not if feminism includes independence, liberty, and power for women. Instead I find femininity -- the assumption that women are incapable of fending for themselves in the marketplace of epithets or ideas, the belief that women are rendered helpless by misogynist speech and the sexist tantrums of their male peers.

The superficial...

It's interesting to watch how the looks of a female candidate or elected official becomes so much more of an issue than with a male counterpart. Where a woman will be told she needs to lose weight or seek out products like lipofuse as well as having their style of dress, even hair called into question, men typically don't face it.

Photoshopping happens to make women look unattractive with men it's typically done to make them look unintelligent.