Betty Friedan was an important figure in American culture, if not in the world.
She was a feminist, and, I suppose, a radical in her heyday. She pushed equality foreward, and for that, I am grateful. As a woman, and as an American, and even as a Jew, I owe much to her. However, her feminism was very much concentrated on equalizing gender within a binary system. If the price of the equality of men and women is the further marginalization of those who do not fit that binary, then I'm not sure I want that type of equality. It is unjust and has drastic consequences.
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