“The idea is to bring together the two generations of feminists and show that they actually have a lot in common. [The idea for the article] came out of two lunches we had, one for Jenny Sanford and one for Naomi Wolf. Inevitably the conversation drifted over to the older feminists on one side of the table saying, ‘Why aren’t you guys grateful to us for what we did for you?’ and the young feminists on the other side of the table saying, ‘What are you talking about, we are grateful and we’re carrying the water and you don’t get it.’ If you listen, it happens all the time.
The way I look at it is funny; it’s much like what’s happening in publishing today. You’ve got all these people who grew up in print saying, ‘Woe is me, we’re going out of business, it’s horrible, print is dying,’ but media’s not dying. It’s just different. And I feel like these girls are the same kind of thing. They’re just doing [feminism] in a different way, they’re presenting it in a different way. They have different issues, and its not that they’re not grateful [to the older generation], it’s just that the issues they’re picking up start at a different level, so they cannot possibly look at it the same way. And that’s okay.”
–Lesley Jane Seymour, More Magazine Editor In Chief, in Time Out New York on why she’s hosting a panel discussion on young feminism with Naomi Wolf
INTERESTED IN COMING? 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St at Canal St (212-601-1000, 92ytribeca.org). Wed 10 at 7pm; $12.
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I’ll be there, on my 35th birthday. Will be very interesting, as someone sandwiched between
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