Welcome To The Postliberation World

October, 1981

Welcome to the Postliberation WorldIspent the past summer with a group of writers, one of whom was inordinately fond of talking about what he liked to call "the lib." His little homilies invariably began like this; "I'm not a chauvinist, and I think Edith Wharton is a terrific writer, but. ..." Then would follow a list of a grievances against women. Itwas difficult to believe that one man could have so many.So I got mad at him, and I wrote his name on many slips of paper, whi...