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Knight on a WhiteHorse
by K.E.Stegall
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1
 
John Leo, “The Trouble with Feminism”,
U.S. News and World Report 
, Feb. 10, 1992.
2
 
C.H. Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism
, Simon & Schuster, 1994.
3
 
Sally Quinn, “Who Killed Feminism”,
The Washington Post 
, Feb., 1992.
4
 
Katherine Kersten, “How the Feminist Establishment Hurts Women”,
Christianity Today
, June 20,1994.
5
 
John Leo, “The Trouble with Feminism”,
U.S. News and World Report 
, Feb. 10, 1992, page 19.
6
 
Sally Quinn, “Who Killed Feminism”,
The Washington Post 
, Feb. 1992.
Knight on a White Horse
 
 by K.E.Stegall
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Knight on a White Horse
“The Trouble with Feminism”
1
Who Stole Feminism?
2
“Who Killed Feminism?”
3
“How the Feminist Establishment Hurts Women”
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These titles seem to suggest that women today are being hurt by the verycause which supposedly fights for their advancement. Can this be true? What’swrong with feminism that a growing number now view it as undermining women’sown best interests?What kind of shape is American feminism in when itsleading journal (MS) is edited by a woman who thinks most of the“decently married bedrooms across America are settings for nightlyrape” and its leading organization (NOW) is headed by a womanwith a husband in Maine and a female ‘companion’ in Washington?
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...the truth is that many women have come to see the feministmovement as anti-male, anti-child, anti-family, anti-feminine. Andtherefore it has nothing to do with us.
6
 
7
 
 Nadine Strossen,
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and The Fight For Women’s Rights
,Scribner, 1994.
8
 
“Temperance” is an old fashioned word which presently has a discredited and laughable connotation, but which simply means the fight against drug abuse.
9
 
Ida Husted Harper,
 Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony
, The Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis & KansasCity, Vol. I, 1899, page 325.
10
 
 Ibid 
, page, 325-326.
Knight on a White Horse
 
 by K.E.Stegall
2Many critics of feminism have trouble putting their finger on exactly what’swrong with it, but often end up talking about sexual immorality. Even thosesympathetic to the goals of feminism can’t quite understand why they are becoming disenchanted and disillusioned with the movement. And when a feministauthors a book entitled
 Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight  for Women’s Rights
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we shouldn’t wonder that some may even identify women’sequality as “what’s wrong.” As a consequence, feminism, women’s equality andsexual immorality have gotten all mixed up in a tangled web of confusion.It was not always so. Many who worked for women’s equality in the pastheld the moral high ground. These strong and tenacious women of the 19
th
century, despite being denied equality under the law, led the great reformmovements such as the abolition of slavery, free public education for all,temperance
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, and women’s suffrage. Their strategy for abolishing the doublestandard for sexual behavior was to call men up to the standard required of women.I feel it is a mortal shame to give any foundation for theimplication that we favor ‘free loveism.’ ... Do not let us, for thesake of our own self-respect, allow it to be hinted that we helped toforge a shadow of a chain which comes in the name of ‘free love.’(Lucy Stone, 1869 Convention of the Equal Rights Association)
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We can not [sic] be frightened from our purpose, the publicmind can not long be prejudiced by this ‘free love’ cry of our enemies. (Susan B. Anthony, 1869 Convention of the Equal RightsAssociation. Both Stone and Anthony were responding toaccusations that the women’s suffrage movement favored ‘freelove.’)
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Yet even among some early feminists there was an undercurrent of rebellion against sexual morality because it was identified as part of the maledominated societal structures which kept women from experiencing their fullequality. Egged on by the free sex movement and encouraged by newer, safer andmore legal methods of birth control, abortion and sterilization this thinking
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