Betty Friedan vs. the Radical Lesbians

Friedan is credited with revitalizing the women's rights movement with her book The Feminine Mystique. She discouraged the idea of "sexual politics", or a women's lib movement that was based on anti-man instead of pro-equality. I took a Feminist Theory class in college that included five or six guys and 15-16 girls. On the syllabus was a section called the "radical lesbians", who advocated women segregating themselves from those nasty men. And let me tell you, when the words "radical lesbians" are on your syllabus, that makes you hang around for a while. One of the things I remember from the class in general is that the guys did much of the talking and made most of the good points, which I thought was both funny and a little disappointing. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. What I remember for sure is the very enjoyable presentation I gave on Title IX as part of our team project on women as "The Other". That was lots o' fun.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall of a RL convention. Based on some of the women I saw on the Mall later in the afternoon, the closest I could have come would be the Million Mom March. I would have felt a lot safer having a gun to protect from some of those women.