Has Feminism Failed Me? Perhaps.

But does an ism owe anybody anything really?

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“I increasingly feel that feminism has failed my generation,” wrote an embittered feminist here.

I thought there was something odd about that sentence. But I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Then I tried substituting different words for feminism and I began to understand what the problem was. For instance…