Malik is forensic in pulling apart the myths thrown at women who would attempt to shed light on this con. that means any inequality beyond that is just biology”. In the first chapter, “The Myth of Gender Equality” she considers the myth – “or rather the con” – that in the West, “we are on our way to building a society in which women have secured all the rights. Malik interrogates six “myths”, all of which were fomenting long before Trump, Brexit, Black Lives Matter or MeToo. Malik’s tone is less musing than Tortorici’s – she is a Guardian columnist accustomed to direct and forceful argument – but she presents her case persuasively, with admirable clarity, and in doing so cuts through a lot of the messy, often befuddling noise. The pushback against the tricky business of redistribution is also the theme of Nesrine Malik’s first book, which examines the issue through the lens of the stories constructed by those who feel their authority ebbing in society, and who have reached for powerful, even dangerous, narratives to guard the status quo. “Must history have losers?” asked Tortorici. In the end, the piece called the situation for what it was: a hostility from those who were being asked – not always politely or eloquently – to re-examine their manner of existing in the world, in order to make room for others. They told her they could no longer speak. “None of the men I had in mind were Nazis,” wrote the author, Dayna Tortorici, but many of the men in her circles – left-wing, literary – were also telling her they felt as if they were living in Soviet Russia. The essay was probing and nuanced and it travelled widely. Last winter, the Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1 published a thoughtful essay on the subject of white male-resentment and the idea that free speech is in crisis.
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