Nothing Sacred: A Conversation with Feminism

Janet Money is Sports Editor of the Woodstock Daily Sentinel-Review.

Kingston columnist Amy Friedman has been called antifeminist (probably
unfairly) for questioning what she feels is doctrinaire feminism. The
essays in this collection address what Friedman sees as feminism’s
tendency to create martyrs, to set up conflicting camps of opinion, and
to promote the assumption that victims of sexual assault rarely lie. She
objects to all of this in a rather rigid,
don’t-bother-me-with-the-sorry-details style.

We need writers like Friedman, if only to keep us on our toes. Her
description of commemorations of the Montreal Massacre as festivities
and celebrations is highly questionable, but it reminds us of what
December 6 properly is—a rememberance day.

As well as writing in general terms about relations between the sexes,
backlash, and trust, Friedman gives us glimpses of the conflicts and
feuds that distinguish the small-city milieu in which she writes.

Even those who disagree with her coolly expressed views will find
Friedman hard to dismiss.