But the Guardian, the liberal British sheet that has supported the feminists, reported last week that women had seldom voted on gender, but voted instead on their perceived interests, as determined quite often by class. Unlike some groups which go in for bloc voting, “women…lack social identity bonds,” and do not see themselves as a part of a movement. A feminist movement exists, but it’s ideological, and too small in most places to swing an election.

“False assumptions that women will vote as a unified bloc go back to the earliest days,” the piece noted. Indeed, what broke on November the 8th was not the non-existent “glass ceiling” but the myth that the feminist movement was a movement by and for women, which now has been shattered for good.

The surprise, in fact, is how long the myth lasted, as feminists themselves have both attacked other women, and defended men against women for years.