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Goldberg's idea of feminism hardly exists anymore: women who spend their time challenging "bourgeois capitalism" are essentially nonexistent outside academia. Actually, his argument contains a disturbing ideological shift; he takes feminists to task for assuming all women are against "patriarchy," then counters with the unrelated info that a majority of women have doubts about abortion. Being pro-choice isn't the same as "smashing the 'socially constructed reality.'" By conflating the two, Goldberg is sneakily trying to make pro-choice people look like the most discredited fringe elements of the 70s and 80s cultural criticism wars. He wants to make activists for a very concrete issue look like vague, out-of-touch demagogues, and anybody who believes in honest debate should call him out for it.
