FeministBees

In the teaser introduction to Freedom Feminism, you state:

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest feminist organization in the United States, claims that feminists have been unfairly portrayed as “unhappy, angry, humorless.”3 These stereotypes, she says, have estranged the younger generation. But are the stereotypes really unfounded?

You never actually answer that question, what is the answer? You bring up Ensler, Valenti, and hooks, but I don't know if you were trying to implicitly showing the truth of the statement by through these women.

Not that I necessarily agree with all the pajoritives levied at you, but seems like you are doing a disservice to your detractors. There is plenty of published criticism of your political position and arguments based on "logic, rules of evidence, and basic fairness." For example, Tom Digby's "Do Feminists Hate Men?: Feminism, Antifeminism, and Gender Oppositionality" and Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich's "Feminist Attacks on Feminisms: Patriarchy's Prodigal Daughters."

I believe part of the reson you are labled an "anti-feminist" is because a lot of scholars read your work as being opposition against contemporary feminism in nore than just message.

For example, you identify yourself as an "equity feminist" and label all those who are disagree with your politics and views on gender as "gender feminists." Something that no feminist (I know of) identify as. You abandon the conventional boundaries that most feminists recognize, and have constructed your own. That would be fine, I suppose, if it were not that this new taxonomy of feminism does little more than over generalize and insist on a false dichotomy. And even on the rare occasion anti-feminists find a new "S.C.U.M. Manifesto," these people are found on the fringes and are incredibly out of date.

It appears, for all perspectives to be a straw feminist.