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...Feminism has increasingly influenced young women to stay single, and it has transformed-and sometimes wrecked-marriages by ending once automatic assumptions about woman's place. In the first issue of Ms., New Feminist Gloria Steinem's magazine for the liberated woman, Jane O'Reilly writes of experiencing "a blinding click," a moment of truth that shows men's preemption of a superior role. An O'Reilly example: "In New York last fall, my neighbors-named Jones-had a couple named Smith over for dinner. Mr. Smith kept telling his wife...
VIEWS. In a movement that has sought to avoid leaders, some women have become, more or less willingly, the articulators of the new militant consciousness. Among them are Gloria Steinem, founder of the new feminist magazine Ms., who in speeches and meetings is one of the movement's most effective proselytizers; Susan Brownmiller, an author who has organized conferences on rape and prostitution; and Robin Morgan, a radical feminist who has spent the past six months speaking at rallies. In recent interviews with TIME'S BJ. Phillips, they discussed their current concern...
Arguing that men are not stigmatized by having their marital status revealed by a form of address, the feminists have decided to be called Ms. (pronounced miz). In spite of all the jokes about Ms. standing for manuscript and mail steamer and master sergeant, it is fast becoming both a symbol and a fad. Ordinarily nonpolitical and conservative businesses, publications and organizations that correspond with women are having to make the big decision about whether to switch to Ms. Women's Wear Daily has, Vogue has not; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, the White House...
While resistance to Ms. crumbles, however, there is some dissension in the ranks of the movement over whether there should even be a differentiation between Mr. and Ms. One protester suggests that both men and women should be addressed as Mm., as in Mm. and Mm. Smith. Or when in doubt, mumble...
...TIME has not switched to Ms. because it believes that Miss and Mrs. convey valid information. But TIME recognizes some justice in the complaint that Mr. does not differentiate between single and married men, and is ready to consider the use of a more precise appellation, if one were devised...