Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

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Summary: "You would be BEATEN"?
Review: While I believe these posts are meant to review the subject at hand (i.e. the text of the book itself) and not to comment back and forth on the remarks of other post-ers, I felt compelled to add my two cents in regard to the customer review that states Ms. Hoff-Sommers "hates" feminism and then proceeds to make such extremist claims that Ms. Hoff-Sommers "would be BEATEN" (the reviewer's emphasis), for various reasons, had it not been for the feminist movement.

If you have read the book, you would know that Ms. Hoff-Sommers is 100% feminist in her thinking. She just believes that the cause of women being, or becoming, equal to men under the law is not served by the use of distorted facts, bogus research and the alarmist rhetoric (like "You would be BEATEN") that is often invented, or publicized, by some feminsts and/or feminist groups.

She also further argues--successfully I believe--that if the women's movement continues to rely of these faulty "facts" (this "crying wolf," so to speak), it will only prove to be hurtful in the long run as society comes to be untrusting of real and valid stats and research on the true realities of women.

That earlier reviewer shows via his/her comments that s/he has a complete misunderstanding of this book not to mention some very ill-formed beliefs about history. Thankfully, judging by the number of other readers who stated that the review was not helpful to them, it seems that I'm not the only one taking issue with and challenging that earlier writer's opinions.