The Hope Of A New Politics Does

We Live In A Historical Period Characterized By A Sharp Discrepancy Between The Intellectual Development Of Man... And His Mental-emotional Development, Which Has Left Him Still In A State Of Marked Narcissism With All Its Pathological Symptoms.

Most Women Are Pragmatists Who Have Allowed Extremists On The Left And Right To Manipulate The Family Issue For Their Own Purposes.

It Is Advertising And The Logic Of Consumerism That Governs The Depiction Of Reality In The Mass Media.

Every Age Develops Its Own Peculiar Forms Of Pathology, Which Express In Exaggerated Form Its Underlying Character Structure.

Once Women Begin To Question The Inevitability Of Their Subordination And To Reject The Conventions Formerly Associated With It, They Can No Longer Retreat To The Safety Of Those Conventions. The Woman Who Rejects The Stereotype Of Feminine Weakness And Dependence Can No Longer Find Much Comfort In The Clich? That All Men Are Beasts. She Has No Choice Except To Believe, On The Contrary, That Men Are Human Beings, And She Finds It Hard To Forgive Them When They Act Like Animals.