Matzneff is all of us.

"Abandoning struggling working class mothers, not persecuting men of means and privilege who, like Gabriel Matzneff, can well look out for themselves, is the failure for which we should be indicting today's gentrified feminism." I totally disagree with this. The persecution of men like Matzneff (who was a boylover as well, you know, even if he is more famous for his love of girls) is horrible in itself, not just because it is a distraction from what you consider to be more important matters. Matzneff's persecution is all of a piece with #MeToo, which has gone way beyond any notion of defending women against assault and rape to a rejection of even consensual relationships, on the ground that any imbalance of power or age makes them non-consensual. Matzneff is all of us. Your feminism leads you to side with our persecutors. You keep talking about a feminism that does not exist. I'm talking about the actual historical movement of feminism that does exist and that destroys our lives. You can call it gentrified if you like, but it is still the actually existing feminism, and the only form of feminism that exists outside of your fantasies; and I am not wrong to identify it as a major source of our persecution. And I don't agree that women are oppressed. Both women and men suffer from poverty and the effects of neoliberalism. This has nothing to do with women being oppressed by men. Better childcare facilities is very mainstream, very New Labour. I would find a society more attractive if a single paycheck was sufficient to raise a family. Failing that, the state might supplement the incomes of parents. This would mean genuinely subordinating economics to the needs of human beings. More crèches sounds neoliberal to me - an add-on to the market so that working class women can share in the delights of the rat race, whilst subcontracting the job of parenting to someone else. The choice you offer is participation in the marketplace, rather than pursuing meaningful activities, such as parenting, that don't involve creating more GDP, but do involve real human relationships. I find your views quite weird and quite unattractive.