05/09/2026
Steinem’s feminism treated ordinary men, marriage, and child-rearing with open suspicion. The legacy corporate media, the people slobbering all over her now, gave her an open platform to do it. She spent decades as the public voice insisting men were, structurally and individually, the problem to be managed rather than partners to be won over.
And how’s that working out for America 60 years on?
Marriage rates? In the toilet.
Birth rates? Well below replacement. Dangerously below, in fact.
Relations between men and women? So terrible that there are women posting on social media that gender reveals tell them whether they’re going to have a girl or an abortion.
That’s what happens when your movement is fronted by, and this is my best compliment for Gloria Steinem, an exceptionally gifted packager of other people’s grievances. Gloria Steinem was the unbought voice of American women, and she did real, lasting damage.
We can thank Steinem for abortion becoming the sacrament of female citizenship — the one economic activity immune to regulation. We can thank her for making the two-parent household a lifestyle option rather than the normal way children are raised, and giving us all the friendly outcomes that has produced. We can thank her for teaching educated women that domestic life was a trap; that certainly contributed to a fertility collapse among the people who read Ms. Magazine, which she founded and ran.
She had almost nothing to say to the waitress in Toledo — Steinem’s own hometown — except that she should be angrier at her husband than at her rent. Working-class women got lectures about representation. Upper-middle-class women got careers, nannies, SSRIs, and a magazine that sold all of it as liberation.
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✍: Scott McKay
