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Response to NY Mag Post-Fem Article

“The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session” – Amanda Fortini

This quote from this week’s New York Magazine’s article titled “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the fourth wave” iterated a feeling that I have been having since my friends burst into my room and asked me to do this chick lit special topics with them at the beginning of the semester. Two of these girls stated to me just a few weeks earlier that they defiantly were “not feminists”. But recently, they seem to have come around – as one sloganeer put it, you’ve come a long way baby.

It’s not that they weren’t feminists,

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