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In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

The Feminist Present

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Norman Pot Horitz's Psychic Violence

When she has her children with Norman Pot Horitz, what's really fascinating to me is that she realizes that it costs their family more money for her to go to work because childcare is so expensive. She doesn't seem to extrapolate a structural critique from her personal dissatisfaction the way that the second wave feminists were beginning to do it this time. It struck me just as Adrian was pointing to about affirmative action. There is this kind of, to use an overused phrase, but a Freudian one, narcissism of small differences.

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