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2005-02-28
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From an Interview with Harry Stein.
……BC: One of the most underrated books that I’ve ever read was Modern Sex: Liberation and its Discontents which is a compilation of essays from City Journal. An essay of yours, “Feminists and their Enemies” is included. Would you agree with Justice Bork when he stated in Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline that “radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties” [p.193]? I mean obviously the radical feminists have some serious competition for the title.

HS: Simple answer: yes, I would. You may recall that in my book I talked a bit about the ANTI-suffrage movement, which of course has been very much derided by history. But I found it fascinating to go back and read what those people were saying, and realize how prescient they were in some ways; notably, those having to do with the impact of the women’s movement on children and family. Obviously, I’m not advocating rolling back suffrage — but I agree we’re still reluctant to honestly deal with the how destructive radical feminism has been to so many lives.

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    I’ll beg to differ… Harry Stein’s hesitant “obviously” not opposing women’s voting rights despite his own admission that suffrage opponents have a point comes across as cowardly.

    Why not Harry? Why not oppose the women’s vote if the social problems of women’s equality are already on the table?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1787606 PolishKnight

    I’ll beg to differ… Harry Stein’s hesitant “obviously” not opposing women’s voting rights despite his own admission that suffrage opponents have a point comes across as cowardly.

    Why not Harry? Why not oppose the women’s vote if the social problems of women’s equality are already on the table?

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1787606 PolishKnight

    I’ll beg to differ… Harry Stein’s hesitant “obviously” not opposing women’s voting rights despite his own admission that suffrage opponents have a point comes across as cowardly.

    Why not Harry? Why not oppose the women’s vote if the social problems of women’s equality are already on the table?






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