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Feminists

TBF

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8. Yes, very much so.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 25, 2012, 05:34 PM

Jun 2012

It was an ok article and I could relate to some of it, but it was very much geared towards high-earning mostly white professional women. It is not feminism lying to women, it is capitalism (and it's supporters and adherents).

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Anne-Marie Slaughter and the fiction of 'have-it-all' feminism [View all] maddezmom Jun 2012 OP

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Slaughter's viewpoint is pretty slanted to women of her own class. Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #3

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Same here with my mom. Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #6

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Yes, very much so. TBF Jun 2012 #8

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