The death of feminism

I keep seeing references to this sort of thing, but it never seems to amount to anything: Second and Third Wave Feminists Clash Over the Future. All those luminaries come together for a conference and only 100 people show up.

The problem is that once feminism achieved its glorious victories there was nowhere to go, because the movement was fundamentally destructive. It didn’t point to a way of organizing things that anyone could build on, so it has ended in an eternal search for the next great thing that never arrives and a bunch of aging geezerettes talking about how great it was in the old days and complaining about the present. The same could be said for other left-wing movements, socialism and liberal Catholicism for example. Their victories are still with us, in the form of bureaucracies and frozen pieties, but as movements they no longer exist.