Letters

Feminists Want Girls to Be Happy, Too

While I can’t speak for all “feminists,” I was stung by Mark Dolliver’s comment that girls must be a disappointment to feminists “who want them viewed as victims of patriarchy” [Takes, June 25]. The notion that any woman would want young girls to feel inferior to boys is ridiculous.

I also want to point out that, according to Carol Gilligan’s groundbreaking work at Harvard in the late ’80s, the effects of patriarchal culture on girls are not evident until puberty.