Who-Stole-Feminism.-How-Women-Have-Betrayed-Women

Chapter 2Indignation, Resentment,and Collective GuiltEvery day the public is witness to feminist outrage at how badlywomen are treated: in the workplace, in the courts, on dates, in marriages,in the schools—by men mostly, but sometimes by other women. Muchof what is reported is true, and some of it is very disturbing.Of course, the abuse or slighting of women must be made known andshould arouse indignation. Plato himself recognized the role of righteousindignation as a mainspring of moral action. In his metaphor, indignationis the good steed helping the charioteer to stay on the path of virtue bycontrolling the vicious, wayward steed straining to go its own brutishway. It is the "spirited element" in the soul that supplies the wise personwith the emotional energy, the horsepower, to curb the appetites so thathe or she may act virtuously.But most of those who publicly bemoan the plight of women in Americaare moved by more dubious passions and interests. Theirs is a feminismof resentment that rationalizes and fosters a wholesale rancor inwomen that has little to do with moral indignation. Resentment may