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.
















PolishKnight said,
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March 1, 2005 at 11:47 am
PolishKnight said,
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?
March 1, 2005 at 12:13 pm