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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:00 AM

My lunch with an antifeminist pundit

Kate O'Beirne, author of the new book "Women Who Make the World Worse," says most women don't want the things feminists are fighting for.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:16 AM

    My Lunch With Lunch

    Kate O'Beirne is what's called in certain circles a Monday Morning Quarterback. How easy is it to look back on the last 30 years of a movement that began a heckuva longer time ago than that, and find wrong turns, dead ends, dropped balls , and crossed signals.

    If she really wants to have anything to say about feminism and its effects, she oughtn't be so quick to refuse to look where it is today, or to profess uncaring about where it's heading in the future.

    As to the real effects of feminism in the last 30 years, I would correct her one one very specific statement: without the feminist movement, she would NOT have been a lawyer. She might have been a brassy, opinionated broad with a "duty" fixation, but she wouldn't have been a lawyer.

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