I am confused by Amanda Fortini and her evolving tenure as New York Mag’s resident feminist. For the uninitiated, here’s the background: As a practical unknown, the former New York Review of Books staffer burst on the scene as the scribe of the magazine’s justifiably notorious LiLo-as-Marilyn shoot, in which a bunch of grown-ups took advantage of a troubled young actress desperate to see her star glow again, and asked her to pose nude for a magazine that does not publish nudie photos otherwise. A couple months later, Fortini penned “The Feminist Reawakening,” about how Fortini and her friends somehow only discovered the existence of sexism during HRC’s run for the nomination. See? Before “The Feminist Reawakening,” Fortini had no idea that the unnecessary recreation of “The Last Sitting” was kind of sexist because it was basically pornographic. Then, this week, “The ‘Bitch’ and the ‘Ditz’: How the Year of the Woman Reinforced the Two Most Pernicious Sexist Stereotypes and Actually Set Women Back.” Pernicious stereotypes? Definitely. Women set back? I don’t think so. This election simply made everybody hyperaware — remember “The Feminist Reawakening”? — of the massive presence of American chauvinism. And isn’t acknowledgement of an issue the first step toward change? In any event, Fortini may feel like women have taken a step back because she didn’t realize how far behind we were in the first place. But now that she’s starting to get it — ugly truths can be difficult to embrace! — maybe she’ll argue a little more forcefully next time a colleague proposes some bright idea, like, I don’t know, an Amy Winhouse centerfold. Meanwhile, when do we get Emily Nussbaum back?