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Howe was not alone. Last week, while Kate and her allies were girding themselves for a new equality strike on Dec. 12, other critics were also dissecting both book and movement. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger, Harper's Editor Midge Decter, Janet Malcolm in the New Republic, and Esquire Writer Helen Lawrenson raised some provocative questions. Can the feminists think clearly? Do they know anything about biology? What about their maturity, their morality, their sexuality? Ironically, Kate Millett herself contributed to the growing skepticism about the movement by acknowledging at a recent meeting that she is bisexual. The disclosure is bound...
Refusal to Grow Up. To Midge Decter, writing in Commentary, the feminist's problem is her refusal to grow up: "To judge from what she says and does-finding only others at fault for her predicaments, speaking always of herself as a means of stating the general case, shedding tears as a means of negotiation-the freedom she seeks is a freedom demanded by children and enjoyed by no one: the freedom from all difficulty...
According to Journalist Decter (who is 43, married, and the mother of four children), the liberated woman, with most of men's options open to her, has found work less interesting and sex less fun than she had hoped. By her very discontent with what most men find rewarding, she has proved herself different from men. But to this she is blind; in Women's Lib she has created a "culture of dissatisfaction," and she has found someone to blame...
Women are not men's victims, Editor Decter says. Both sexes have the same freedom: "To make certain choices and take the consequences." A feminist need not be a "sexual object." Instead, she may remain chaste, "thereby restoring to herself that uniquely feminine power over men which many women so cavalierly make light of in the struggle for equality...
Writers' Prerogatives. Mailer turned in 90,000 words. Morris read them all and deliberated with Executive Editor Midge Decter for most of a drinking afternoon before deciding to run the piece in full, turning over a whole issue of Harper's to what was probably the longest magazine article ever published, "The Steps of the Pentagon." In book form, as The Armies of the Night, it won a Pulitzer Prize for Mailer...