Feminism's Agenda Is Basic: It Asks That

The Piles Of Makeup And The Insistence On Frills And Ribbons And Bows Was Not At All Attuned To My Feminist Views.

All Of Women's Aspirations--whether For Education, Work, Or Any Form Of Self-determination--ultimately Rest On Their Ability To Decide Whether And When To Bear Children. For This Reason, Reproductive Freedom Has Always Been The Most Popular Item In Each Of The Successive Feminist Agendas--and The Most Heavily Assaulted Target Of Each Backlash.

Keeping The Peace With The Particular Man In One's Life Becomes More Essential Than Battling The Mass Male Culture.

In The '30s And '40s, The Search For Hungarian National Identity Led Famously To An Alliance With Hitler And The Destruction Of More Than A Half Million Of The Nation's Jews. And Here We Are Now, More Than 70 Years Later, Witnessing A Resurgence Of Xenophobia And Authoritarianism, And Not Just In Eastern Europe.

The Media And The Rest Of Popular Culture Weren't Recording People's Reactions To 9/11; They Were Forcing Made-up Reactions Down People's Throats.