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Maybe this is just me, but if it comes down to choosing between the right to join a sorority/Junior League/DAR or being able to vote, being able to take action against an abusive husband, or not be shunned for choosing a path other than being a housewife from age 20 til the day I die -- I'd pick the latter every time.
The great thing about feminism, though, is that we don't have to choose between the two -- we get both options.
As we've discussed on these forums before, sororities would not exist without feminism. The founders of most of these groups were all feminists, whether or not they described themselves as such. I'm not sure where the inherent conflict between sororities and feminism comes in.
As for feminism causing the ills of the world -- I don't think I could begin to get into it on a board like GC, but Taualumna, your grasp of history and social issues is so clearly lacking that I'm not sure it's even worth discussing this topic with you (or many other GCers that I know share your viewpoint). To keep a long story short, I agree with kappaloo that the pervasion of the media has a lot more to do with the oversexualization at a young age than feminism ever did.
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