Gloria Steinem — "Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to d…"
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.
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American second-wave feminist organizer, journalist, and Ms. magazine co-founder who shaped 1970s feminist politics.
Closely associated with
Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique author) and Bella Abzug (feminist Congresswoman).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder — Schlafly's grassroots STOP-ERA campaign defeated the Equal Rights Amendment Steinem championed — they were the public faces of the 1970s gender debate from opposite sides.