What's Feminism?

Feminism in today's society has been skewed and is perceived the wrong way by many. Even some "feminists" do no truly understand what it is. Feminism is a movement for political, social, and economical equality to men. EQUALITY, not superiority. Here are three quotes from some well-known "feminists":

1) "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race."- Sally Miller Gearhart

2) "All men are rapists and that's all they are."- Marilyn French

3) "The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men."- Sharon Stone

The above are just as representative of feminism as terrorists are of Islam: they aren't. There are many people that judge feminism based on the viewpoints of radical feminists and they need to enlighten themselves. All movements consist of a minority extremist group based on which people judge the entire movement upon and this is wrong. 

Deborah Tannen is a feminist; she is not a radical feminist. Almost everything she states in "There is no Unmarked Woman" appeals to logic as true. Even though some of her writing is very opinionated, she never makes anti-male remarks. It is wrong to judge her writing based on the views we hold regarding feminism as these views could be skewed. If the byline of the piece contained a man's name instead of Tannen's, the reaction towards the piece would be unanimously supportive, but since it read "Deborah Tannen", it was split.