Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.

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Christina Hoff Sommers about Want:

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell ...
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Christina Hoff Sommers about Good:

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of ...
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Christina Hoff Sommers about Women:

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women ...
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Christina Hoff Sommers about Truth:

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and ...
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Christina Hoff Sommers about Powerful:

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they ...
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Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her feat includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She in addition to hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist.

Sommers’ positions and writing have been characterized by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as “equity feminism”, a classical-liberal or libertarian feminist outlook holding that the main embassy role of feminism is to ensure that the right against coercive interference is not infringed. Sommers has contrasted equity feminism subsequently what she terms victim feminism and gender feminism, arguing that open-minded feminist thought often contains an “irrational unfriendliness to men” and possesses an “inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different”.

Christina Hoff Sommers's Quotes

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Christina Hoff Sommers about Society:

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Parents:

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Think:

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Christina Hoff Sommers about People:

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Powerful:

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Change:

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Women:

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Children:

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

Christina Hoff Sommers about History:

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Children:

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Good:

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Education:

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Truth:

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Want:

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

Christina Hoff Sommers about Today:

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.