Speaking of Schulman…Here’s what looks to be a brilliant article in Commentary on feminism and marriage that I cannot access without paying for it. If you’re flush with cash you may want to throw down a few bills and read it.
RADICAL FEMINISTS once aspired, in the name of women’s freedom, to abolish the institution of marriage. In the event, not only did they fail to do that, but the preservation of marriage became, in a way, the movement’s chief if wholly unintended accomplishment. What now threatens to end marriage is not feminism but something else, and that something may signal the end of the era of feminism as well.
But before entering these thickets, it may be worth stepping back for a moment.
Feminism as we know it began with a lurch a generation ago. It has not subsided to this day, even though every man who was over thirty years old at the time of the movement’s inception–and therefore, by definition, not to be trusted–has now reached retirement age. In the next while, virtually every surviving member of that legendary species, the Male Chauvinist Pig, will have become superannuated, and the old rocking chair will envelop what is left of the Patriarchy.