It's not because for a brief time I was married to her father that I always pause to read Laura Kipnis. She is worth it for her provocative style leading to deeper than the usual insights. She writes a lot about sex and power.
Today's topic in The Atlantic magazine is about the current explosion of womens' rage. Never moving from how appropriate that anger is in the face of outrageous male behavior on the casting couch or in the executive suite, she quickly points out that this anger needs a more fundamental focus.
When Kipnis reminds us about "shelling out an exorbitant percentage of your already unequal salary for day care" she is urging us to take hold of this #me too moment and expand its focus.
The moment of rage deserves nothing less than a reordering of priorities directed at womens' lives.
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