When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is

When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is

When I saw the headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” in The New York Times Opinion section, my heart sank. It felt like a headline torn from another era—a provocation that had no place in 2025. False accusations remain extremely rare—estimated at between 2 percent and 8 percent of reports—while roughly two-thirds of sexual assaults are never reported at all. The crisis is sexual violence, not accou…