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346. Indeed it has. Why?

Where was feminism when Ronald Reagan was dismantling the unions? Where was feminism when our manufacturing base got moved overseas? Well, we're a service economy now. That's what happens to mature economies. Great. So where are the service sector unions? Where are the strikes by hotel workers, phone bank operators, restaurant servers, customer service reps, store clerks and all the rest? All those women moved into the workforce and feminism, which claims to have made it all happen, abandoned the organizational structure it claims to have created that would have made life bearable for millions of women. Where did feminism go? What have you been doing? You know what happened to all those fire breathing second wave feminists? The eighties.

Millions of women moved into the workforce all right, then they went shopping: Bed Bath and Beyond formed in 1971, Pottery Barn founded in 1986 owned by Williams Sonoma founded in 1956 and of course Wal Mart founded in 1962. Do you see a pattern?

And the crowing achievement of second wave feminism was of course reproductive rights, a worthy and noble objective if there ever was one. So why is it so hard to get an abortion now? How do you explain the legislative setbacks since Roe v Wade? Hell, how do you explain all these Republicans running around loose? What have all you feminists been doing and if you have been doing anything, it looks like you were doing it wrong. All that power, all that energy, the force drawn from the real needs of half the population of the planet and where are you now?