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Victim feminism is a term that has been used by some conservative postfeminist writers such as Katie Roiphe[1] and Naomi Wolf[1] to critique forms of feminist activism which they see as reinforcing the idea that women are weak or lacking in agency.[2]: 393 [3]
Fire announces a 'genderquake' – a resurgence of female political power. And it says it's time to reject the 'victim' feminism that casts women as powerless objects of male malevolence in favor of a new "power" feminism that enables women
most women don't fully understand yet that a 'genderquake' has occurred. The time has come to shuck 'victim feminism' and its sexist whining and embrace 'power feminism,' the better for women to reach out and claim their fair share
The current attack on 'victim feminism' is partly a class phenomenon, a kind of status anxiety.
If these movements are not to work at cross-purposes, feminists in both genres ought to give thought to their inter-relations: writers like Roiphe, Paglia, and Naomi Wolf might have had more difficulty making a target out of victim feminism, for example, if academic feminists had ...
Naomi Wolf, in her Fire with Fire, defines victim feminism as women seeking power 'through an identity of powerlessness.' Two features of victim feminism according to Wolf are: identifying with powerlessness even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power women do possess; and putting community first, hence being hostile toward individual achievement