(FORTUNE Magazine) – We bring assorted grievances to this item, beginning with an entry some might deem trivial: the new story line in the Blondie comic strip. Dean Young, the strip's author, denies that his latest plot twist reflects input from the feminist movement, but one wonders. Young had previously garnered laurels from ABC's World News Tonight -- Peter Jennings anointed him and Blondie ''Persons of the Week'' -- when she decided to give up homemaking and go into business ! for herself. That was last year. Now, one senses, Young is ready for more accolades. Or are we supposed to think him oblivious to the applause guaranteed to be showered down in the weeks ahead when Dagwood gives up his job serving Mr. Dithers and goes to work for none other than his own Mrs. Bumstead? The view here is that the zeitgeist would soon enough be requiring Blondie to reassume her maiden name at the office if it unfortunately wasn't Boopadoop. (No, we are not kidding.) Why does the world view of the American media require so much kowtowing to the feminist movement? Is it because so many newsroom executives are intimidated by activist femmes muttering about lawsuits? Because feminism just naturally looks progressive to the liberal media elite? And incidentally -- here we turn to a more expansive grievance -- did any members of the elite actually read Pipelines of Progress: A Status Report on the Glass Ceiling, the latest movement document getting deferential treatment by every newsroom commentator in sight? Although Pipelines was published by the U.S. Department of Labor, its authors (unidentified) would have been out on their ears had they submitted any such unserious effort to, say, the department's Monthly Labor Review. The glass-ceiling document is in large measure a compilation of media reportage uncritically favorable to the movement, and it sometimes misrepresents what even these sources state. Take, for example, its treatment of a Business Week survey of women in large corporations. According to Pipelines, the survey says most of the respondents believe progress in hiring and promoting women executives has slowed down, and also says less than half the women believe companies are doing ''somewhat better'' nowadays. But it fails to mention that another 16% say the companies are doing ''much better.'' A writer not utterly committed to kvetching would have summarized the data as showing that almost two-thirds of the respondents saw improvement, 29% felt things were about the same, and only 6% said things were getting worse. Your servant's main grievance nowadays concerns media reportage re the ''Year of the Woman,'' the latest elaborate quadrennial dodge to persuade us all that feminism's awesome power is about to be unleashed at the polls. The background thought propelling the phrase this time is that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill confrontation last fall energized the women's vote in a distinctly new way, linking the national elections to fears about sexual % harassment and abortion rights. This explication of the Year of the Woman is still endlessly turning up on the op-ed pages even though post-confrontation surveys consistently showed women supporting Thomas's confirmation and believing his story over Hill's. In a Roper poll taken this spring, 57% of women were still saying they believed Thomas -- one more sign that you cannot equate females with the feminist movement. And now, an exclusive: Keeping Up's over-the-horizon kvetch-sensing radar has suddenly picked up the next big issue for the movement. The issue is guaranteed to grow, and you can see it burgeoning in a recent fascinating article (''Sexual Chill Hits the Office'') by Sally Jacobs in the Boston Globe. Talking to femmes in the Boston area, Sally elicited much aggrieved testimony about their increasingly cool and distant relationships with male colleagues at work. It seems that in an age when sexual harassment charges destroy careers, men are less inclined to mentor over dinner, to chat in the office with the door closed, to tell grownup jokes in mixed company. ''At Fidelity Investments in Boston,'' Ms. Jacobs tells us, ''it sounds as though the Boy Scouts have taken over.'' The women are dismayed. They sense a loss of camaraderie, not to mention opportunities for advancement. Some among them characterize the new remoteness as simply the latest angle in discrimination. ''If the only reason a woman is not being asked out for dinner is because she's a woman, that's discrimination,'' grieves a consultant quoted in the article. It could be the issue of the next century.