VERY BRIEF: I wanted to reply to the Goblin Queen’s criticism of my Jewish World Review column on gender, but I don’t really have a huge amount to say, except that I think she’s expanding the meaning of “feminism” until the concept basically disappears. This doesn’t strike me as good for feminism. If “feminism is the radical belief that women are people,” then the Old Oligarch is a feminist; the Pope is a feminist. It seems to me that if feminism is to be a culture-changing social movement it might want to have a more robust definition of its project. As I understand it, the leading contenders for that project require either genderlessness or the kind of foofy gender mix-and-match I described in my JWR piece. I disagree with both of those, thus I’m not a feminist, even though I think I’m pretty clear on the whole women are people thing. Anyway, I thought I had more to say than that, but I don’t think I do, really. Here’s my big post on feminism’s successes (for good and ill) and failures.