For Some High-profile Men In Trouble, Women,

Instead Of Confronting Its Real And Difficult Problems And Grappling Honestly With A Dark Past, Hungary Embraced A Reactionary Government And A Self-pitying Image Of Itself As The Victimized Nation, And Went Looking For Scapegoats In The Roma, Jews, And, Most Recently, Syrian Migrants.

The Economic Victims Of The Era Are Men Who Who Know Someone Has Made Off With Their Future- And They Suspect The Thief Is A Woman.

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.

A Backlash Against Women's Rights Is Nothing New. Indeed It's A Recurring Phenomenon: It Returns Every Time Women Begin To Make Some Headway Towards Equality, A Seemingly Inevitable Early Frost To The Brief Flowerings Of Feminism.

The Point Of Feminism ... Is To Win Women A Wider Range Of Experience. Feminism Remains A Pretty Simple Concept, Despite Repeated - And Enormously Effective - Efforts To Dress It Up In Greasepaint And Turn Its Proponents Into Gargoyles.