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I remember reading Kate Millet's "Sexual Politics" way back when. I'm talking about 40 years ago. ...she struck me as being so anti-heterosexuality, as if male desire and even male physiological function were inherently a bad thing.... Having known normal males who were normal good boys and good men, I eventually realized I was immune to the most virulent strains of feminism.

Me, too. Graduated in the 60s top of my class. Immediately got jobs (people wanted my talents) for $ half, or less than $ half, of the men around me, no matter how much new business I was generating. So when I heard about feminism and "equal pay for equal work," I thought it could help. A friend and I went to the first ever NOW meeting in our large city.

We could not wait to walk out. Lesbian recruiting; denunciations of men; frizzy-haired, Birkenstock-wearing hippie hairy armpit unkempt prairie-dressed wymyn raging and acting like male losers. Out we went.

Not that it stopped me from trying to get equal pay for equal work; but I was not about to swap being a wife and mom for anything they were selling.