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Title: Power misused
Review: This book, with great imaginative power and no logic at all, accuses half of humanity of horrific crimes. Brownmiller has great gifts as a writer, and she misuses them to create enduring self-accusation in male readers. Despite what one commenter says, this has nothing to do with real guilt or innocence. With female readers, perhaps the book has done some good, though it must have happened at a cost. Perhaps it has validated women's experience, but has done this by eroding their ability to trust any men, not only those who commit crimes. It teaches women to pay no attention to what people do, but to view them as guilty or innocent based on who they are, like the mark of Cain purportedly passed on to Cain's descendants.This is an artifact of the feminist dark ages of the seventies. It was a time when the most extraordinary statements were circulating in feminist circles, and they did have an effect on ordinary women one knew. I can only be glad that time is over.
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