Susan Swan's memoir is quietly shocking

This was a fascinating read - but quietly so, if such a thing is not an oxymoron.

Swan, a Second Wave feminist writer of popular, what we now call upmarket fiction and a retired York U prof today well into her seventies, could have probably enjoyed a quiet old age away from the news headlines if the progressive left hadn’t taken a turn for the insane a few years back. This included of course the accused-is-guilty MeToo generation of the very online feminists which found themselves at odds with their founding mothers and aunts. On the case of Steven Galloway, Swan, as well as Atwood and some other older feminists, came out in favour of due process. Both women also came out in favour of free speech and freedom of assembly when it was the least popular thing to do in Toronto literati circles.