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Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author, philosopher specialising in ethics, and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000), and her writing has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times, Time magazine, and The Atlantic. She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.

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Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Brought, Hand, Hands, Light, Lying, Truth

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

Care, Choices, Having, Home, Think, Thinking

Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

Associated, College, Hands, Mean, Raise, Young

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Against, Boys, Energy, Males, Simple

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Become, Country, Educational, Harvard, Positions, School

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

Boys, Finished, Men, Struggle, Struggling

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Away, Boys, Literate, Teaching, World

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

Ambitious, American, Girl, Race, Reality, Successful

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Interchangeable, Liberation, Men, Thinking, Want

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

Authority, Mad, Today, Victim, Wonder

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Feminism, Setback, Space, Trigger, Warning, Warnings

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

Children, Fragile, Healthy, People, Pitiable, Thinking

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

Humorless, Independent, Preparation, Self

There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

Consensus, Fashion, Journalists, Sophistry, Teaching, Writing

Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.

Circles, College, Healing, Propaganda, Safest, Space

The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world.

Developing, Feminism, Feminist, Feminists, Space, Work

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality. " This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression. "

Ableism, Culture, Racism, Sexism, Together

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

Art, Bird, Children, Fragile, Jokes, Works

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Boys, Different, Play, Society, Tumble

Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

Academy, Doors, Feminist, Groups, Looked, Typical

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