bell hooks and Laverne Cox Discuss 'What is Feminism?' I The New School

Music by: BOCREW - "SUNBIRDS" - Creative Commons/CC Mixter
produced by THEDEEPR AUGUST 2012 & BOCREW 2012

October 7, 2014 - The Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street

[Priapismpain]

As a straight, CISgendered, White-guy, I've always felt uneasy about defining feminism because....obvious reasons. With that said, I've gotten comfortable looking at an idea and saying "That's not feminism." The example here is the one that always comes to mind. Anyone wanting to trade a woman's agency in exchange for patriarchal institutions can't call themselves a feminist, in my very humble, privileged, opinion. I don't believe TERFs are feminists either. With that said, at least they have something that resembles ideas: there are comments below that have me wondering how it is these folks managed to even navigate to this page to begin with. Imagine a cashier showing up in the local hospital and telling the surgeon how they are doing their job wrong in the operating room...

[KennyAMV]

wtf is wrong he? aint nobody talking about abortion.
if women should have the choice to get an abortion shouldn't they also have a choice to wear LV's? M'am, please.

[pandaamachine]

Feminism should be a fight for human rights. When you create a difference, a social category, a hierarchy behind this foundational philosophy- you reinforce the patriarchal institutional structures that you're fighting against. I love you, Bells, but shame and waste.

[HoppyBunny.]

What is feminism? Feminism in practice is based upon 2 main convictions.
1. Feminism and feminists and only feminism and feminist have an absolute exclusive monopoly on all higher morality and ethics.
2. Feminism and feminists believe with absolute unwavering conviction that they and only they are exclusively qualified to determine, judge and define the entirety of male lived experiences more than the men who actually live our experiences.