even in death betty friedan still has power to stir up men's anti-woman phobias.
on today's washington journal, 3 (male) callers in a row blamed feminism for various societal ills or claimed it has failed or even had the opposite of its intended effect, never deigning to notice any number of other causal factors that might be more responsible, including biology, media, myth, and patriarchism.
eventually female callers started getting thru to tell how they benefitted. one said she's a professor—something unheard of when she was in college.
one woman described the sexist male callers as "neanderthals." it's hard to say if that characterization is accurate.
whether or not evidence exists of sexism among prehistoric peoples, we do know at least some neanderthals practiced ritual burial, so they probably had religion, and where there's religion, there may very well be phobia.
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