Playing on the Team—Midge Decter (RIP)

For John, BLUF:  Ms Midge Decter, cited in our Blog Header, passed away on 9 May of this year, at the age of 94.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

---

"Liberalism, she said [in the late 1960s], rather than speaking to the common man and woman as it had in the past, was veering off the tracks into 'a general assault in the culture against the way ordinary Americans had come to live...."

From the Althouse Blog, by Law Professor Ann Althouse, 10 May 2022.

Here is the lede plus one:

"She argued that the real revolution that allowed women to have careers was not the women’s movement but the availability of modern forms of birth control. To Ms. Decter, women had a biological destiny to be wives and mothers, and those who tried to escape it evinced self-hatred. In her 1972 book, 'The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation,' she wrote that women’s 'true grievance' is not that they are 'mistreated, discriminated against, oppressed, enslaved, but that they are — women.' She offered a solution: Single women should remain chaste, because women are

naturally monogamous. And withholding sex, she said, was a form of power over men...." From "Midge Decter, an Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 94/As a writer and intellectual, she abandoned liberal politics, challenged the women’s movement and championed the Reagan Republican agenda"
(NYT).

She asked difficult questions.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff