They Don?t Make Feminists This Outrageous Anymore

Not long ago, a group of prominent British journalists, all female, went out for an evening to get drunk on gin. Very drunk on gin. One of them walked headlong into a door. Another confessed to having been caught in flagrante delicto at a funeral. Eventually, they settled into one of their favorite pastimes: bemoaning?increasingly loudly?the sorry state of contemporary feminism. How had a movement that had once been so incendiary, so vibrant, and so effective become so ? tedious? How had it been hijacked not only by stodgy academics but by Sex and the City divas: women who, as Caitlin Moran, a columnist at the London Times (and, as it happens, the woman who banged into the door), said, would have us believe that ?if we have fabulous underwear we?ll be somehow above the terrifying statistic that only one percent of the world's wealth is owned by women.?

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