Best Description of Modern Feminists Yet

This may be the most accurate description of modern feminists ever. From Kevin D. Williamson @ NRO:

Feminism is not an idea or a collection of ideas but a collection of appetites wriggling queasily together like a bag of snakes. ... A useful definition [today] is this: “Feminism is the words ‘I Want!’ in the mouths of three or more women, provided they’re the right kind of women.”

Feminism began as a simple grievance, mutated into a kind of conspiracy theory (with “patriarchy” filling in for the Jews/Freemasons/Illuminati/Bohemian Grove/reptilian shape-shifters/the fiendish plot of Dr. Fu Manchu/etc.), spent the 1980s in grad school congealing into a ridiculous jargon, and with the booming economy of the 1990s was once again reinvented, this time as a career path. 

Williamson offers 30-year-old law student Sandra Fluke as exhibit A:

For what is she known? For standing in front of a group of legislators saying “I Want!” It is worth remembering that Miss Fluke’s “I Want!” heard ’round the world was a demand for birth-control subsidies at a Catholic institution: What’s a few thousand years of practice and the most highly developed body of moral philosophy in the Western world compared with a callow young law student’s “I Want!”?

Public policy can be complicated, but “I Want!” is simple. In the world of responsible politics, there are sometimes conflicts between competing legitimate goods, and there are occasions upon which the necessities of governance run up against the limitations our constitutional order puts upon the political enterprise. Miss Fluke spoke many, many words on the subject but, defying probability, never managed to stumble upon any interesting ones. She ended where she began: “I Want!”

Read more: The Feminist Mystique.