The Unmeltable Ethnocentrics

A recent issue of The New York Times Book Review featured eight reviews under the simple heading “Women.” That heading turned out to be as exclusive as the lettering on the door of a public lavatory. All the books were by women. All the reviews were by women.

Phyllis Schlafly can relax: the new sexual equality isn’t dumping the sexes together indiscriminately, it is merely creating new bailiwicks. We should have foreseen it. Nobody would ask for privilege by name nowadays: you have to demand it in the name of equality. Hence our affirmative action programs, from construction jobs to book reviews.

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Joseph Sobran

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A recent issue of The New York Times Book Review featured eight reviews under the simple heading “Women.” That heading turned out to be as exclusive as the lettering on the door of a public lavatory. All the books were by women. All the reviews were by women.

Phyllis Schlafly can relax: the new sexual equality isn’t dumping the sexes together indiscriminately, it is merely creating new bailiwicks. We should have foreseen it. Nobody would ask for privilege by name nowadays: you have to demand it in the name of equality. Hence our affirmative action programs, from construction jobs to book reviews.