“Roles are changing for both men and women. Women are being pressured … to believe that their past status was brought about by male oppression,” writes one astute cultural observer. “At the same time men … are being accused of being oppressors—and angry oppressors at that. The whole process of change is taking place in an atmosphere of the greatest bad temper, and a tremendous amount of secondary hostility is being generated that in itself poses a threat to a good outcome.” That was Margaret Mead—in 1975.43 The hostility remains,

