Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.