Roiphe had once believed in feminism as "a train you could catch and ride to someplace better." While attending Harvard University as an undergraduate student and attending Princeton University as a graduate student, she discovered that feminism made women angry at men, brainwashed them into thinking they're never responsible for their actions, and made them only feel like victims.

Roiphe, a Generation Xer, says the current feminist movement is making women weak by saying women are always innocent and need to be protected. This ideology is bringing back women, she says, to the status of women before the 1960's women's movement.

When she observed a "Take Back the Night" march at Princeton University, she heard a woman who was raped say, "I am a survivor and it's a miracle every time I get a good grade, it's a miracle when I have friends, it's a miracle when I have relationships. It's a miracle. And I thank God every day." This way of thinking scares Roiphe because it makes women look like children.

Although Roiphe is very critical of the feminist movement, she still believes it still has hope. By allowing harsh criticism of feminism, she says, the feminist movement will be able to develop into what it was really meant to do- make women feel equal to everyone.

Roiphe clearly argues her points about sexual harassment, rape, pornography, and the Take Back the Night march. This book is a must read for everyone, especially female college students, administrators of colleges and universities, and the women who started the women's liberation movement in the sixties.

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