When Konner’s book was serialized in the Wall Street Journal, within forty-eight hours he had more than seven hundred comments, many of them from a “men’s rights movement.” “There were some comments that were brief, but started and ended with ‘fuck you,’” he recalls. Another told him, “There’s no describing your kind of stupid.” The response came as a shock. His wife had to double lock their doors. The idea of women gaining power, Konner admits, “is threatening” to some. That shouldn’t really surprise us. When suffragists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fought for the right to
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