I’ve long said that the feminist movement has strong parallels with the patient empowerment movement. Both involve people who perhaps at first didn’t feel mistreated (though some did) but who went through an awakening – “consciousness raising,” we called it in the Sixties, started to speak up, and discovered how it feels.
There was a great example today in the New York Times: Mormon Women Set Out to Take a Stand, in Pants. As I said on Twitter, “A long time feminist, I’m tickled to see Mormon women starting the process – by wearing pants to church. Some backlash.” The lede:
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