My Goal Is To Be Accused Of

An Accurate Charting Of American Women's Progress Through History Might Look More Like A Corkscrew Tilted Slightly To One Side, Its Loops Inching Closer To The Line Of Freedom With The Passage Of Time-but, Like A Mathematical Curve Approaching Infinity, Never Touching Its Goal.

The Last Decade Has Seen A Powerful Counterassault On Women's Rights, A Backlash, An Attempt To Retract The Handful Of Small And Hard-won Victories That The Feminist Movement Did Manage To Win For Women. This Counterassault Is Largely Insidious: In A Kind Of Pop-culture Version Of The Big Lie, It Stands The Truth Boldly On Its Head And Proclaims That The Very Steps That Have Elevated Women's Position Have Actually Led To Their Downfall.

Feminism's Agenda Is Basic: It Asks That Women Not Be Forced To 'choose' Between Public Justice And Private Happiness.

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.

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