What Kind of Feminist Future Does ISIS Have In Mind? by Phyllis Chesler The Huffington Post September 3, 2015 Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. I want to thank East Hampton's East End Women's Alliance for honoring my lifetime of feminist work. That work spans nearly half a century. In this time, a visionary feminism managed to seriously challenge, if not transform, world consciousness. Like many of us, I started out in 1967 and have never looked back. The work still drives me. 1967 was an easier year to "come out" as a feminist. It is much harder now. We had an opening in history and we rushed right through that door and almost instantly became Players in History. Our original feminist vision was radical and transformative. We believed in universal human rights. We were not multi-cultural relativists. We called out misogyny when we saw it and did not exempt a rapist, a wife-beater, or a pedophile because he was poor (his victims were also poor); or a man of color (his victims were also people of color); or because he had an abused childhood (so did his victims). » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Afghanistan, Feminism, ISIS, Islamism/Muslim Dissidents, Rape, Women

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