I would admit I failed feminism (and therefore “women”), but I think it failed me first. Inasmuch as many women who have no idea how to get it would love to have a life like mine, I think feminism is failing most women.

As the fear of Obama failing (and the ultimately impossible expectations front-loaded into his presidency: to be Black JFK and Black Abraham Lincoln combined) is the fear of all black men and women being regarded by proxy as failures, the collectivization of women in the form of feminism implies a rise and fall of all women riding on any notable woman’s rise and fall; and thus the tremendous anxiety (generalized) that women function under: if any of them fail, it may not simply be because they just didn’t have what it takes, or just made errors. No, it is an indictment of the system.

This is similar to the work-ethic problem of late Puritans: if I fail it is not merely that I was not up to the task and need to try harder, but my failure is a potential indictment of my personhood: the saints prosper and the evil are brought low. Therefore if I am brought low, I am evil, and in the Calvinist worldview, this was foreordained (even if I didn’t know it) and inescapable. Therefore the pressure to be seen as diligent and successful is overwhelming.

No she doesn’t. She feels like status is her well-earned reward for conning somebody into giving her status. If it was simply handed to her, then she’s all the more fabulous for having been born deserving it.