Speaking strictly from my own

Speaking strictly from my own experience, when Rocket Man refers to his leftism as including “a certain wistful hope that we might meet girls,” I’m afraid that both the desire and the desired activity were more intense than that suggests. I would add only that Midge Decter’s remarkable 1972 book “The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation,” based solely on her reading of feminist literature, corroborated what one might conclude from meeting the girls on the left: that there was something seriously wrong at the heart of feminism.