Found this article from maxim titled "how to cure a feminist" from 2003 the text is kind of hard to read here so here is what the article says..
1. WIN HER OVER
A feminist is just like any other woman: She won’t give you the time of day if you don’t know how to approach her. To prove you’re not part of the dreaded penisocracy, pretend to share her beliefs. But hide your lack of actual knowledge of feminist issues and show her how much you value her opinion by asking intelligent questions: “What must women do to earn equal pay for equal work?” or “Has Gloria Steinem’s marriage hurt the feminist agenda?” or “Did you see Cagney & Lacey on Lifetime last night?”
2. OPEN HER EYES
Don’t just wait for her to think differently—give her some options. Begin by discussing “lipstick” feminism, which is far more moderate than the combat-boot variety. “She can be a girly-girl and still be a feminist,” explains Jennifer Baumgardner, coauthor ofManifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. “There’s no need to eschew things like shopping, makeup, or boyfriends.” Don’t think she’s ready for a Maxim subscription just yet? Sign her up for Bust, a feminist-lite mag that says women can be independent, strong, and relatively hairless.
3. TREAT HER RIGHT
Once a relationship is established, you should treat a feminist just like you’d treat any other girl you’re interested in, Baumgardner advises. As long as you’re not overbearing, she won’t object to your opening the occasional door or picking up a check. Next, unlock her repressed Malibu Barbie fantasies and buy her a tight tank top with FEMINIST printed on the chest from outspokenclothing.com. Tell her she looks great—but try to avoid phrases like “bodacious ta-tas.”
4. SHIFT HER FOCUS
To preserve any chance of getting your chin buttered, you’ll have to reshizzle her feminist-tinged interests so you can actually spend time with her. “Focus on the things you have in common,” suggests Michele Weiner-Davis, author of The Sex-Starved Marriage. She likes pro softball? Take her to a major-league game. She’s a staunch environmentalist? Go camping. She supports a woman’s right to reject the outdated mores of our male-dominated society? Tell her to get closer to your mike
A feminist is just like any other woman: She won’t give you the time of day if you don’t know how to approach her. To prove you’re not part of the dreaded penisocracy, pretend to share her beliefs. But hide your lack of actual knowledge of feminist issues and show her how much you value her opinion by asking intelligent questions: “What must women do to earn equal pay for equal work?” or “Has Gloria Steinem’s marriage hurt the feminist agenda?” or “Did you see Cagney & Lacey on Lifetime last night?”
2. OPEN HER EYES
Don’t just wait for her to think differently—give her some options. Begin by discussing “lipstick” feminism, which is far more moderate than the combat-boot variety. “She can be a girly-girl and still be a feminist,” explains Jennifer Baumgardner, coauthor ofManifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. “There’s no need to eschew things like shopping, makeup, or boyfriends.” Don’t think she’s ready for a Maxim subscription just yet? Sign her up for Bust, a feminist-lite mag that says women can be independent, strong, and relatively hairless.
3. TREAT HER RIGHT
Once a relationship is established, you should treat a feminist just like you’d treat any other girl you’re interested in, Baumgardner advises. As long as you’re not overbearing, she won’t object to your opening the occasional door or picking up a check. Next, unlock her repressed Malibu Barbie fantasies and buy her a tight tank top with FEMINIST printed on the chest from outspokenclothing.com. Tell her she looks great—but try to avoid phrases like “bodacious ta-tas.”
4. SHIFT HER FOCUS
To preserve any chance of getting your chin buttered, you’ll have to reshizzle her feminist-tinged interests so you can actually spend time with her. “Focus on the things you have in common,” suggests Michele Weiner-Davis, author of The Sex-Starved Marriage. She likes pro softball? Take her to a major-league game. She’s a staunch environmentalist? Go camping. She supports a woman’s right to reject the outdated mores of our male-dominated society? Tell her to get closer to your mike
This step-by-step guide to "curing" feminism is OUTRAGEOUS. It embodies every kind of stereotype in this how to section of the magazine the same girl is depicted first with baggy jeans, no makeup, messy hair, smoking a cigarette, hairy armpits, with her hand on her crotch. The next depiction shows the same girl wearing jeans, sneakers, her hair is brushed and she is showing a little bit of waist line. The real kicker on this one is the speech bubble reading " maybe you're not a bum like my absentee father" Because of course the only reason women would support women's rights or any part of feminism is because she had no real male figure in her life to cause her to think the right way...
It gets better, the next image is of a girl wearing heels, a short skirt, a top that covers only her breasts, her hair is styled in pigtails, and she has her hand in her mouth in a sexual way saying " I think a man completes me..." because how else would a women be able to feel secure or complete about herself unless she had a man to make her feel complete? The last woman is pictured wearing lingerie, heels, with dark makeup, and suggesting that she is about to take off her underwear her speech bubble reads " your Camaro makes me so hot!"
This is saying to the general public that all women who are feminists are hairy, fatherless lives, hate men, and need a man to convince them that they need to stop wearing combat boots and get in touch with their femininity by talking about lifetime and letting men open doors for you.
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