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I don't think this woman is likely to have seen the cutting edge of a sexual harrassment charge coming at her or she wouldn't think it quite that easy to "just speak up." Try it in a corporate environment and it can cost you your job. Radical feminism is not only institutionalized within the Human Resources departments, it is nearly all-pervasive. I speak from sad experience here.

That said, there are definitional issues that this particular author may be too young to recognize, specifically the difference between equal rights, "feminism," and "women's liberation." This is not an issue that ever was restricted to half the population - women got the vote through the cooperation of the men who had it, some of whom took a considerable political risk in doing so. It was a far less adversarial movement than latter-day feminists like to pretend.

What happened? It was deliberately soured by political activists who insisted on casting the issue in the Marxian modality of an oppressed class and a violent and adversarial liberation of that class in a zero-sum game in which rights are not granted to all but taken one from the other. Conflict is inherent in this model and necessary to it.

And like all Marxian movements it produced a privileged sub-class - a "cadre" - that is a minority of the overall population that has a vested interest in maintaining the conflict and embittering the opponents. These are agitators, professional "feminists" who populate the HR departments, the Women's Studies schools, the popular literary culture. They do not want peace between the sexes any more than a race hustler wants peace between black and white. It doesn't suit their interests.

It's an entirely artificial conflict but it's a bugger to stop now that it is proliferated by unjust law, unrealistic expectations of "gender"-blind performance, and a bitter, vengeful minority that is gleefully acting the oppressor because its members have convinced themselves that that is what was done to them and that retribution is in order. Peace will not be possible with those women - it's the last thing they want.

These are agitators, professional "feminists" who populate the HR departments, the Women's Studies schools, the popular literary culture.

I've noticed that the HR dept of the company I currently work at has a dozen employees. Not one male works in the HR dept. I don't think it's just my company

"soured by political activists who insisted on casting the issue in the Marxian modality of an oppressed class and a violent and adversarial liberation of that class"

Correct. And its perpetuation is entirely the work of the haridans that fall for it. And until they give it up, nobody should give them the time of day. Who needs 'em? Let them go be unoppressed all by themselves.

The next generation knows better. You can't preach the evils of patriarchy to a young woman who has never so much as seen her father.