Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Refusal to Grow Up. To Midge Decter, writing in Commentary, the feminist's problem is her refusal to grow up: "To judge from what she says and does-finding only others at fault for her predicaments, speaking always of herself as a means of stating the general case, shedding...
According to Journalist Decter (who is 43, married, and the mother of four children), the liberated woman, with most of men's options open to her, has found work less interesting and sex less fun than she had hoped. By her very discontent with what most men find rewarding...
Women are not men's victims, Editor Decter says. Both sexes have the same freedom: "To make certain choices and take the consequences." A feminist need not be a "sexual object." Instead, she may remain chaste, "thereby restoring to herself that uniquely feminine power over men which many women...
What concerns Janet Malcolm is feminine power over children. In the New Republic, she raises a moral issue: "From feminists' writings, one gathers that the claims of children are incompatible with the rights of women, and that it is the children, being the less important of the two, who...
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