Over at Feministe, blogger and twenty-something NYU law student Jill has posted very interesting and compelling commentary about tensions related to feminism and heterosexual dating. Though her post has attracted a few clodlike comments, I’m happy to see she is also receiving a fair amount of constructive support there. Whatever other benefits flow to her from raising these issues publicly, hopefully she now realizes (in the event she ever doubted it) that she is far from alone in the struggles she articulates. Someone older needs to write a corollary post, “Feminists Finding Professional Success,” that catalogs the difficulties of interacting professionally with liberal men who think of themselves as very progressive, but continue to view and treat women as second class citizens, because many of the dating issues Jill describes surface in slightly different forms in the workplace as well.
–Ann Bartow
