Breeding Dissension
Just when you thought every conceivable group with a grievance had already mobilized itself and rented offices on K Street, a new one is threatening to rumble.
Danielle Crittenden is a Canadian-American author and journalist known for her writing on feminism, family policy, and cultural issues. She contributed to The Weekly Standard during the late 1990s, writing on topics including day care, gender politics, and the cultural contradictions of modern feminism. She is the author of *What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman* and is married to journalist and commentator David Frum.
Just when you thought every conceivable group with a grievance had already mobilized itself and rented offices on K Street, a new one is threatening to rumble.
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