{"id":3978,"date":"2026-09-04T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:02:15","slug":"gloria-steinems-final-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem&#8217;s Final Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3981\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Steinem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3981\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Steinem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Steinem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Excerpt from the New Yorker magazine&#8217;s Special Edition of their newsletter, September 3, 2026.\u00a0 This is an outstanding essay and should be widely shared.\u00a0 \u00a0If you do not have access to the New Yorker newsletter, find someone who does.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;. . . For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I believe in the social, economic, and political equality of all males and females of all races and groups. I know this sounds too simple to need a word, but equality is still the exception, not the rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"Container-ioqmpI jzsvml\" data-event-boundary=\"click\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;CNEInterludeEmbed&quot;}\" data-in-view=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;CNEInterludeEmbed&quot;}\" data-include-experiments=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>Maybe we should call it egalitarianism, or even humanism. The problem with humanism is that it is often interpreted as being anti-religion, so I don\u2019t think it\u2019s inclusive enough. Regardless of what we call it, it just means treating each of us as uniquely human. The experiences of race and gender and class are very real and important, but they are also constructed and changeable. Our humanity is consistent and sacred. . . . &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from the New Yorker magazine&#8217;s Special Edition of their newsletter, September 3, 2026.\u00a0 This is an outstanding essay and should be widely shared.\u00a0 \u00a0If you do not have access to the New Yorker newsletter, find someone who does. &#8220;. . . For me, saying that I am a feminist has always meant that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gloria Steinem&#8217;s Final Essay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}