Harper's in 1971 ran an essay by Norman Mailer entitled “The Prisoner of Sex,” that declared war on “women’s liberation.” At the Town Hall panel Diana Trilling said “in 50 years we’ll find out” what radical feminism might do to those it would affect. Those 50 years are now up.

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Thanks, feminists.

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It seems like a Joker and Batman situation with these people, two extreme groups that found an adversary in each other. Neither sounds attached to reality. Feminism's biggest legacy so far is creating harsher social expectations for everyone and lowering the value of women's labor. Not what they claimed to want.