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This piece is incredibly pithy, and really a history of how progressive movements fall apart and become reactionary (through the lens of Dworkin and second-wave feminism). bookforum.com/inprint/025_05…
While I was reading it, I couldn't help but be reminded of several Boomer friends of mine and my biggest frustration in discussing things like feminism and intersectionality with them, which is their resistance to the idea that the movements have moved on.
Like, it really seems like many Boomer feminists understand their era of feminism as eternal. A couple of them have actually told me that Boomers "started" or "are responsible" for feminism, and they have trouble accepting that there was work to be done beyond what they did.
Now, on one hand, I don't think having your perspective firmly centered in your generation's work on human progress is unique to Boomers. There's always a certain level of "harumph, kids these days and their complications" toward the next generation of activists.
But man oh man, the *level* of resistance to the idea that 2nd-wave feminism wasn't the be all and end all of feminism, that it could be improved upon, just stuns me every time. As does the idea that feminism *began* in the 1960s.
