I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan…….

Interestingly — with all the changes in awareness and in legislation since the early 1970s — when I was majoring in the brand-new feminist studies program at what was then Colorado Women’s College in Denver — I believe many, many more women ARE feminist.

By education or by default, there are few women today who would be cool with making half of what men make for the identical job, for example. I cite that, because even the most dimly-lit can identify with and react strongly to that obvious inequality. It’s the first thing many “But I’m not a FEMINIST!” Phyllis Schafly acolytes bleat. Why? Because it is tangible, they can relate to the “unfairness” of it.

The more subjective issues often leave the duck-face selfie crowd in the intellectual dust — but THIS, they get. It’s a good starting place for discussion with those for whom “feminist” summons visions of a hard-edged broad sporting an “I Hate Men” haircut.

The same door some women feel a man “should hold open” for her, is often the same door they warn him not to let hit him in the ass when things go south in the entitled landscape of established cultural patriarchy.

-J