These are excellent questions, and they aren’t at all dissimilar from the questions my students in Women’s History classes ask regularly. At the beginning of each semester, I always ask students in that class whether or not they consider themselves to be feminists. For the past decade, the response rate has been more or less the same: 20% say “yes”, 20% say “definitely not” and the majority offer some variation on the time-honored phrase “I’m not a feminist, but…” Part of the problem is that the media has distorted the image of what it means to be a feminist. Despite the fact that “bra-burning” never took place publicly during the 1960s or 1970s (though there were public demonstrations where women discarded uncomfortable undergarments), my students still associate feminism with this non-existent practice. They also, as one of my students put it succinctly, see feminists on TV as “hairy, ugly, smelly, and angry”. Above all, they have become convinced that to be a feminist is to dislike men — both collectively and as individuals. Overwhelmed by media distortions, the majority are understandably reluctant to claim the mantle of feminism!
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johnsmith

What is an IVA
What is an IVA

I was Admin for her facebook fan page for a while, until she personal sent me a message saying she “dosnt give a shit about her fans”.
Pretty poor stuff considering i owned about 6 of her DVDs