Perhaps most illustrative of all was an exchange at a women s luncheon in a wealthy northern suburb of New York City at which I was the invited speaker. She was, of course, unable to demur. So it went and went with flying success in those early years. Now it is three decades later. Young women are being as mercilessly exploited as young men in the white shoe law firms, girl Marines slog through the mud at Parris Island, and females train for the attempt to land airplanes on aircraft carriers.
Women are without opprobrium free to choose as many bedmates, or housemates, as they see fit.
For another thing, successful careers turn out to be a source not of liberation but of unending worry and demand. Germaine Greer, however, has neither given up nor changed the subject. She has if anything expanded the horizons of her loathing to incorporate all the so called advances that the women s movement has wrought. The career woman does not know if she is to do her job like a man or like herself. . . . It s time to get angry again.