Women Explain Things to Me

On Katie Roiphe’s Trojan horse feminism, which empowers women to keep men empowered

Soraya Roberts
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9 min readMar 2, 2020

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Source illustration: Katy Hunchar

KKatie Roiphe’s new book, The Power Notebooks, is dedicated to a man. But even if it weren’t “For Tim,” it would be for men, the same way her first book was for men. That would be The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, which argued that women were at least partially…

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Soraya Roberts
GEN
Writer for

Culture columnist at Longreads and author of In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life.