The best defense against this slander is the same one blacks have found. While they were ashamed of their color, it was an albatross hanging around their necks. They freed them- selves from that dead weight by picking up their blackness and holding it out proudly for all the world to see. They found their own beauty and turned their former shame into their badge of honor. Women should perceive that the nega- tive attitudes they hold toward their own femaleness are the creation of an antifeminist society, just as the black shame at being black was the product of racism.
