AS I SAID earlier, it doesn’t matter whether same-sex marriage is approved by legislatures or courts, it is already gaining de facto recognition. Obituaries in The New York Times now refer to the “spouses” of same sex couples. Here’s today’s admiring obituary of Jill Johnston, author of Lesbian Nation, a book which touted female separatism in the 1970s.

Johnston, who died Saturday at the age of 81, was candid about the motives of feminism in an interview with The Gay and Lesbian Review four years ago:

“Once I understood the feminist doctrines, a lesbian separatist position seemed the commonsensical position, especially since, conveniently, I was an L-person… Women wanted to remove their support from men, the ‘enemy’ in a movement for reform, power and self-determination.” 

Now turn these words around and imagine The New York Times quoting a man who said he was part of a movement that viewed women as the “enemy” and sought power on behalf of men.

It is interesting to note that, according to the obituary, Johnston had an absent father as a child, which may help explain why she was drawn to the lesbian life. How many famous feminists have projected their personal disappointments onto the world? In 1998, Johnston wrote:

“The centrality of the lesbian position to feminist revolution — wildly unrealistic or downright mad, as it still seems to most women everywhere — continues to ring true and right.”

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Reader N. writes:

I personally knew a few young women back in the 1970’s and 1980’s who at least talked a line of lesbian separatism. Looking back at them, I realize that they totally took for granted that water would continue to flow out of the tap, that their garbage would be picked up, that mechanics would fix their cars, and that if they dialed 911, big, strong men with guns would come to their rescue.

In other words, they completely took for granted that no matter how much they scorned men, men would not scorn them.

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