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- Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
- Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male.
  - Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.
  - The feminism they hear about the most is portrayed by women who are primarily committed to gender equality - equal pay for equal work, and sometimes women and men sharing household chores and parenting.
  - They know from mass media that women's liberation focuses on the freedom to have abortions, to be lesbians, to challenge rape and domestic violence.
- Masses of people continue to believe that god has ordained that women be subordinate to men in the domestic household.
- Males were not the only group in our society who supported sexist thinking and behavior - that females could be sexist as well - anti-male sentiment no longer shaped the movement's consciousness.
- Utopian visions of sisterhood based solely on the awareness of the reality that all women were in some way victimized by male domination were disrupted by discussions of class and race.
- Revolutionary thinkers did not want simply to alter the existing system so that women would have more rights. We wanted to transform that system, to bring an end to patriarchy and sexism.
  - Since patriarchal mass media was not interested in the more revolutionary vision, it never received attention in mainstream press.
    - The vision of "women's liberation" which captured and still holds the public imagination was the one representing women as wanting what men had.
- Reformists could break free of male domination in the workforce and be more self-determining in their lifestyles.
  - While sexism did not end, they could maximize their freedom within the existing system. And they could cound on there being a lower class of exploited subordinated women to do the dirty work they were refusing to do.
  - By accepting and indeed colluding with the subordination of working-class and poor women, they not only ally themselves with the existing patriarchy and its concomitant sexism, they give themselves the right to lead a double life, one where they are the equals of men in the workforce and at home when they want to be.
- Lifestyle feminism ushered in the notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevailed that no matter what a woman's politics, be she conservative or liberal, she too could fit feminism into her existing lifestyle. 
  - Obviously this way of thinking has made feminism more acceptable because its underlying assumption is that women can be feminists without fundamentally challenging and changing themselves or the culture.
- Concurrently there can be no such thing as "power feminism" if the vision of power evoked is power gained through the exploitation and oppression of others.
- Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions.