A NY Times Q & A by that title with Phyllis Chesler, feminist psychotherapist, founder of the Association for Women in Psychology, and author of recently published “Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman.” Some out-of-context quotes to pique your interest, but read the entire interview, as this woman seems very even-handed:
The coming generation, and second-wave feminists as well, can acknowledge that women, like men, are aggressive and, like men, are as close to the apes as the angels. Our lived realities have never conformed to the feminist view that women are morally superior to men, are compassionate, nurturing, maternal and also very valiant under siege.
Women, the minute they meet another woman, it’s: she’s going to be my fairy godmother, my best friend, the mother I never had. And when that’s not the case we say, “well, she’s the evil stepmother.”
I think the conclusion is not that women should be kept barefoot and pregnant and at home because they have no executive capacity. The conclusion is that there is something about the workplace that is deadly to all living things and men adapt more.