I completely agree, and often say, that young women face a different world than that of the l960s and 1970s. So naturally they are going to have different ideas about what's important. For instance: a lot of my feminism as a young person had to do with resisting social (and internal) pressures to marry and allow my life to shaped by a man's. I don't think college-educated women in their twenties face that expectation to anything like the same degree. They are expected to be rather ambitious, and to marry late.heavy-duty sex discrimination kicks in later for woemn today -- I think many will only see it after they have a baby. And then they'll be too tired to organize.
About Butler -- sorry, it still seems nuts to me. That physical sex is socially constructed? That we are male and female because our culture tells us we are and that's it? You might as well say if you live in a christian culture that holds that you're immortal, you really are. Katha