I would feel sorry for intelligent people forced to make specious arguments about feminism spurred by their own perhaps unconscious fears and need for control if 1) their arguments weren't such crap that it's hard for me not to feel disgust and 2) their arguments get such prominent attention in the media, as opposed to feminist theories, which get none.

David Gelernter continues his attack on American woman and American Feminism that he's been waging for years in an article from the Los Angeles Times, which has dumped the brilliant and progressive Robert Scheer in order to bring us more conservative propaganda. In this piece, he bemoans the fact that college women today actually use their degrees to earn a living and work in a profession instead of just heading home after graduation to cook and clean like they were supposed to and supposedly did willingly in the 1960s.

It's breathtaking to hear so much power attributed to feminism, just as it is to hear that women do not have minds of our own or desires to work but are in fact victims of some nefarious cabal of powerful feminists sending out radio waves instructing otherwise loving wives and mothers to instead become castrating bitches. I teach feminist theory, and upon hearing this, 99 times out of 100 the person I am talking to, male or female, says "feminism, what is that?" So now I find out that in fact their ignorance serves the larger goal of the feminist conspiracy: take over the hearts and minds of women everywhere but make sure that they never have any exposure to feminism whatsoever so they'll have no idea why they are making the choices they make.

Sheesh. Come to think of it, I do feel sorry for someone smart enough to teach at Yale who is twisted enough to need to attack a movement for social justice in a country founded on those same principles. But do not mistake my pity for complacency. This is war, and while we are outmanned, outmoneyed, outgunned, and outpowered, I am not giving up and never, ever will.