N, who attended the release of 21 under 40, an anthology of twenty-one short stories by women under forty, is appalled that “… at least three of the writers felt feminism and feminist concerns were outdated, unnecessary and even slightly unseemly.” She explains why:
I find it disturbing that the representative of a feminist publishing house is not clear about what feminism means, not to the world at large but even just to them. That she gets defensive about the word ‘feminist’. That three other writers with her believe that “women like us” don’t have “such problems” therefore, women like us don’t have to write about them. I find it especially disturbing because it reflects a trend that is common among urban educated women from upper middle class families in India. Feminism is passe. Feminism is uncool. And mostly, it is Somebody Else’s Problem.
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