When Men on the Left Refuse to See Their Sexism

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34. While "The Feminine Mystique" captured the interest

of bored college educated housewives in upper middle class suburbs, the thing that galvanized the feminist movement among the young was the way we'd been treated by the "new left" of the 1960s.

For me there have always been two women's movements, the one that was preoccupied with smashing the glass ceiling and the one that needed to break into unions in order to feed their kids; the one that hired nannies and the one that wanted something better than putting their kids into any dodgy day care they could find because there was so little available.

If you want to know where working class feminists came from, just check out some of the men they used to be married to in the late 60s and throughout the 70s, many of them very strong leftists everywhere but the home.