The Faux War on Women

Back when the term ?postmodern feminism? hit its heyday, conservatives first weaponized the equality issue by citing bold theories from extreme thinkers and shoving them in front of average women, taunting them with the dreaded warning that ?she says she speaks for you!? In some cases, it worked. Who wanted to be grouped with a strident harpy like Catherine Mackinnon, who said all sex is like rape? That this was an outrageous distortion linked to her work on the impact of pornography seemed unimportant. The damage was done; feminism was about women who made bad choices: the choice to work, the choice to have (and enjoy) non-procreative sex, and the choice to delay marriage. To be a feminist was to be defined by one?s poor choices. And two decades later, that ?bad choices? argument has been mainstreamed. There is so much that is foolish about trying to turn America?s women against America?s other women based on their jobs, their incomes, and their parenting. Ann Romney is no more ?Everywoman? than the rest of us, precisely because there is no such thing as everywoman. There are just many, many women, making the same compromises and bargains that men make.? So why is it still OK to talk about women in stark, cartoonish terms??

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