Posted on 03/07/04
Saving feminism from the hijackers
Big Sister:How Extreme FeminismHas Betrayed the Fightfor Sexual EqualityBy Neil BoydGreystone, 211 pages, $22.95When I started playing squash, I did some very stupid things. I would run into walls, fail to duck when a ball was headed straight toward me and hit myself with my own racquet. This went on for a very long time (two years), and it left me tattooed with an odd assortment of bruises and welts. They were everywhere, up and down my arms and thighs, and in the summer there was no covering them up. In the streets, women would stop and stare, looking searchingly into my eyes, their message writ large in their horrified expressions: "Some man did this to you, didn't he?"
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