'Sisterhood beware - silencing ideas stymies progress'

Senior Lecturer Cathy Sherry writes in The Age (25 January 2012) about when debate is marked by personaln vitriol, people opt out and keep quiet. Please see summary below:

I have long considered myself a feminist and been disturbed by the parts of the sisterhood who operate like the nasty in-group in primary school. You can't be our friend because you don't wear the right pink dress. You can't be our friend unless you toe the approved party-line on abortion, childcare or sexual clothing. It is astounding to watch grown women engage in exclusionary behaviour that most of us outgrew by age 10.

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