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...controversy unleashed by Roiple's book, the annual Take Back the Night will be held at Harvard-Radcliffe. Originally intended as a weeklong series of events designed to educate the community about violence against women, Take Back the Night has more recently been tagged with a radical feminist agenda that offers no place for more mainstream views. Women are unwilling to embrace an event they fear will cast them in the role of victim. Men are hesitant to become involved for fear of being labeled as evil aggressors. Thus, a vast majority of people who could benefit from Take Back...
...career. It's almost going back to a '60s mindset, to do something you really care about, something you really want to do. It's almost like a non-alienation-of-labor way, very sort of flower child, but I truly think that way. It was also heavily feminist, so that you wouldn't wake up at 40 with two kids in Scarsdale and not be able to go back to work...
...Katie Roiphe's date rape polemic, The Morning After, she pulls that typical trick of grouping all of her opponents together. She assumes that every feminist on every campus in the world thinks like Catharine MacKinnon, who believes that all social contact between men and women is tantamount to rape. Roiphe's arguments sound reasonable, but only if you really are speaking against a world of Catharine MacKinnons...
...feminist intellectuals seem slightly out of touch, it's because they're preoccupied these days with their own factional matters, such as the great standoff over the subject of victimhood. On the pro-victimhood side are the legions of domestic-abuse specialists who see Lorena Bobbitt as one more martyr in women's long, weepy history of rape and abuse. On the anti side are feminist authors like Naomi Wolf and Wendy Kaminer, who claim that women have been turning away from feminism because they're sick and tired of hearing about victims and "victimology": foot binding, battering, genital mutilation...
...beyond-bitch attitude. Feminism raised expectations, giving millions of women the idea that makeup is not the solution to chronic bruising and that even males may be endowed with coffee-making skills. But for most women, especially the kind who don't do book tours and talk shows, the feminist revolution just * hasn't come along fast enough. A sizable percentage of them have to work every day with guys whose notions of gender etiquette are derived from Howard and Rush. And all too many women go home to Bobbitt-like fellows who regard the penis as a portable battering...