Well, I myself wondered why she took the essay so personally. I like Robin Morgan as a writer and I thought it appropriate to remind people of the true history of the struggle for voting rights, civil rights, as pertains to women and also minorities. Nowadays it is retold by legal theorists--many of them at Harvard and Yale, sadly--who have historically mangled the 1960s and managed to claim political activitists' creativity as some sort of dead legal theory that law professors invented in the 1980s and retaught to law students afterward.

No wonder younger women are reluctant to claim a label that brings them both a sense of being has-beens and also brings upon their head the sort of overt community hostility that out of the closet women leaders get.