Mentor’s Walks
If women need to stand together, then why are they retreating home? Don’t these little dinner groups smack of Tupperware parties, with ladies shrinking from the world and taking shelter in their kitchens? And how about that element of masturbatory self-validation? It’s easy to feel superior when entrenched among needy disciples, when everyone looks and sounds just like you.
Shouldn’t women be strutting their stuff on rostrums, staging events and declaring their authority, flaunting their strength in numbers? Whatever happened to the rallying cry?
The rallying cry, it turns out, falls on deaf ears. And it’s resulted in a lot of hoarse voices. Conferences, with their eternal blend of backslapping and ass kissing and chest pounding ...
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