Law & Liberty
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Katie Roiphe’s The Morning After challenged the emphasis on “rape culture” and “date rape” that defined 1980s and 1990s feminism.
She argued that in the sexual realm, feminists should celebrate liberation and accept responsibility, not seek protection and embrace victimhood.
Three decades after the book, the book remains relevant, controversial, and confounding.
Frida Ghitis: Most men do not pose a threat to women, but those who do pose any threat to others are overwhelmingly male.
She says blanket admission of men into women’s spaces means that women are correct to be anxious about potential danger that newly lurks in places where it is ethical, prudent, and customary to ensure that we are protected from male lurkers.
Ghitis says feminism denigrates reason itself as the sole province of dominating men while elevating utopian musings as the rightful province of other-regarding women.
It was, after all, the 1960s and 1970s feminists’ total lack of regard for women’s unique physical vulnerability that created the “date rape” crisis in the first place.
The single-sex dorms and proprietary rules of yore may have made some young women feel infantilized and overprotected.
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