It’s been twenty years since the late great Doris Lessing - a Nobel prize winning novelist, who herself wrote seminal women’s literature of the 1960s - called out a toxic contingent within feminism.
‘Lay off men’ pleaded Lessing, confronting the radicals who “continually demeaned and insulted men”, without a wimpier of protest.
What would Lessing say if she were alive today? Herself a legendary wordsmith, surrounded by the bizarre neologisms of ‘man–splaining’, ‘man-terupting’, ‘male privilege’ and ‘male fragility’...
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