The Heart Of The Backlash

For Some High-profile Men In Trouble, Women, Especially Feminist Women, Became The All-purpose Scapegoats-charged With Crimes That Often Descended Into The Absurd.

A Lot Of People Seem To Want To Make The Institution Of Marriage Substitute For A Real Relationship.

My Feminist View - That Gender Is On A Continuum And We Are All Better Off Dropping A Lot Of Those Binary Notions - Is One That Is Shared By The More Recent Generation Of Trans Activists And Theorists.

Feminism's Agenda Is Basic: It Asks That Women Not Be Forced To "choose" Between Public Justice And Private Happiness. It Asks That Women Be Free To Define Themselves-instead Of Having Their Identity Defined For Them, Time And Again, By Their Culture And Their Men.

The Central Argument Of The Backlash - That Women's Equality Is Responsible For Women's Unhappiness.