The author touches on young women afraid of feminism. But there are some people who feel that young women have far less to lose by becoming feminists, than older women. I, personally don’t think that age has anything to do with it. There are a lot of women that feel that marriage is a critique of feminism, but that is not true in all marriages. The author feels that it is helpful to draw a distinction between gender consciousness and feminist consciousness. Gender consciousness takes two forms: awareness of women’s vulnerability and celebration of women’s difference. Intimate relationships become the testing groung for identity, a reality that has enormously damaging consequences for teenage girls in particular. There are some who feel that feminist identity puts them out of the pool for many men, limits the options of who they might become with a partner how they might decide to live. The author also touches on survivors of men’s violence for women who have not experienced men’s violence hate being asked to identify with; they see the threat to their emergent sense of  autonomy and freedom not in the fact of men’s violence, but in feminist analyses that make them identify with it. But, I feel that if a person is confident in themselves, when discussing men’s violent would not bother them, in many ways it could be helping someone else who is being abused.