ABSTRACT
Feminist social critic Tammy Bruce perceptively notes that Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a cornerstone of modern feminism, was presented as the work of "a politically inactive housewife who simply had had enough of sexism. The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), another of the subsidized sorority, is a classic case of nomenclature as wishful thinking. Public-opinion polls have found that about one-quarter of American women describe themselves as "feminist". Despite its ritualistic invocation of the word "choice," the FMF is predictably opposed to persons exercising choice with regard to their pocketbooks, guns, schools, and speech. The FMF's anti-Taliban activities have the expected taint of limousine liberalism: a fund-raising auction at Christie's in Beverly Hills featured European works from the collection of Gigi Guggenheim Danzinger. Though Women Employed was critical of the Hillary Clinton welfare reform, it was otherwise as suctorial toward the administration of the Arkansas Lothario as were the other dewy-eyed feminists.
