The Misanthrope’s Corner

Miss King is the author of With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy (St. Martin’s).

I GET the distinct impression that feminists don’t like strong, healthy specimens of womanhood. They’re forever ransacking history in search of “role models,” but they always seem to ignore the fine strapping girls and focus on the kind who fit my grandmother’s definition of a good movie: “She dies in the end.”