Town Bloody Hall (1979) review

On April 30, 1971, four feminists - Jacqueline Ceballos (a representative of the National Organization of Women), writers Germaine Greer and Jill Johnston and literary critic Diana Trilling - gathered in The Town Hall with novelist Norman Mailer to discuss the women's liberation movement, with each of them given a chance to present their views, and eventually they take questions from "privileged" audience members (which include Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag and Cynthia Ozick).  There are many points mentioned, including those around the wage gap, lack of upward mobility and mistreatment that do still pertain today (#MeToo is proof of that), and Norman, contemplating the shape and design of a Dixie Cup, is there to play the "stooge" for both his fellow speakers and the crowd, snapping at some disparaging comments and laughing at others.  Johnston and Greer, in particular, are irritatingly smug (the latter gets annoyed with Anatole Broyard's tongue-in-cheek but legitimate question), and it's weird watching liberals bicker with each other - perhaps Mailer sums it up best: "We're all stuck-up snots."