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Feminist Hawk

Feminist Hawk is a superheroine. She is also an Associate Editor of NewsReal Blog, in charge of running The Feminist Hawks' Nest.


Feminist Hawk’s Comment of the Day: Ayn Rand in the Nest

2010 February 28

I appreciated this comment on my first post today. It seemed to understand what The Feminist Hawks’ Nest is all about and also remind us of another inspiring Feminist Hawk figure.

Here’s someone who gets it 100%:

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joeblough 85p · 41 minutes ago

wealthy, comfortable pseudo-feminists … These women are not feminists. They are not fighting for oppressed women. They’re not advocating for equal rights so that women can pursue their self-destiny … these issues pale in comparison to the Islamic gender apartheid that victimizes hundreds of millions of women …

What a refreshingly different outlook, tone and voice.

Imagine! Defending the human rights of women because they are human — and humans have rights! What a novel idea. Or perhaps not novel. Perhaps just a rarity today, but a century or more old in truth. read more…

Feminist Hawk: Now is Not the Time for Women To Go to Sleep

2010 February 28

When Jenn Q. Public told me about the subject of her newest post I was livid. I could just feel my talons sliding out instinctively as she explained the story and I gave her my blessing to proceed with it.

Such wealthy, comfortable pseudo-feminists as Naomi Wolf and Arianna Huffington are so narcissistic that they cannot see beyond their own bed posts.

As Jenn wrote:

Young girls in Yemen are forced into marriages with adult men, lesbians in South Africa face “corrective rape,” and women throughout the Muslim world suffer indignity, violence, and death under Sharia law.  But that’s not the sort of horrific oppression interrupting Wolf’s beauty rest. read more…

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