In a column published March 31 in the Orlando Sentinel (“Women overseas must taste fruits of feminism”), Jonah Goldberg suggests that the work of feminists in the US is largely done. Equality has largely been achieved, he argues, and now is the time to take the feminist movement overseas. Our next destination? The Muslim world. We can all agree with Goldberg that the Egyptian army’s use of virginity tests to humiliate female prisoners is despicable, though we might point out that the Egyptian army remains strong in part due to America’s generous $1.3 billion yearly military-aid package.
