Virginia Woolf’s 1929 book “A Room of One’s Own” — a Wing philosophical touchstone — didn’t argue for just any old room. The Perch’s “Virgin Woolf” mocktail is refreshing; the water pressure from the Wing shower head is reassuringly firm. In Gelman, feminism has one of New York’s most charming and relentless flacks on its side. The place is an influence machine: Wing members effectively pay to advertise products to other women in front of the club’s feminine backdrops, and along the way, burnish their own brand power too. Gelman began to speak about a Wing membership as analogous to political agitation.

Source: New York Times March 17, 2020 09:00 UTC