The problem for feminism is men. Not, specifically, in the sense that men are the source of women’s problems, although the statistics do tend to point in that direction. Feminism’s men problem is that, despite all this, women like men. Love men. One of the lessons of second-wave experiments in separatism is that the idealised man-free existence is always fighting against the gravity of affection.
Sarah Ditum
A flawed utopia: The Men, by Sandra Newman, reviewed
Life without men and boys seems so much easier for women – until they start missing them too much

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