Feminism for everyone emotional policies, by: Bell Hooks

When I ask that group of people about feminist books or magazines they read, and when I inquire about the feminist talks they have heard, and about the feminist activists they know, they tell me that everything they have heard about the feminist movement is nothing but a consumed matter, and that they have not at all approached the feminist movement, nor do they know what is happening in reality. They often believe that the feminist movement is a group of angry women who want to imitate men. They do not think of the feminist movement as a rights movement seeking women's equal rights with men. When I talk about feminism as I know it – closely and based on personal experience – they listen to me willingly, even though as soon as our conversations end, they rush to tell me that I am different and not like the "real" feminists, the angry ones who hate men. Then, I confirm to them that I am a true and radical feminist as much as one can be, and if they dare to approach the feminist movement, they will see that it is not as they imagined.