My Feminist View - That Gender Is

The Modern Fairy Tale Ending Is The Reverse Of The Traditional One: A Woman Does Not Wait For Prince Charming To Bring Her Happiness; She Lives Happily Ever After Only By Refusing To Wait For Him -- Or By Actually Rejecting Him. It Is Those Who Persist In Hoping For A Prince Charming Who Are Setting Themselves Up For Disillusionment And Unhappiness.

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.

That So-called Feminine Ardor For Clothes Shopping Had Been Flagging For Some Time. Between 1980 And 1986, At The Same Time That Women Were Buying More Houses, Cars, Restaurant Dinners, And Health Care Services, They Were Buying Fewer Pieces Of Clothing-from Dresses To Underwear.

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.

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.