I discovered Ayn Rand in the early 70's.....A lot of people I knew were reading her works....But...Very few people these days would ever take the time to read her books or watch her old Black & White interviews....The Fountainhead....Anthem....and especially Atlas Shrugged which is the size of Tolstoy's War and Peace.....People don't seem to have time to be bothered with such these days.....
Reality never goes away....But it's up to you to decide whether to accept it... or the consequences.
My husband and I had watched a couple of her interviews you mentioned, then this thread came up.
She was no feminist, for sure!
I particularly enjoyed watching her being interviewed and being challenged by males and I was looking for the sure signs of bitterness and compensation tactics of "inferior trying to prove superior" that feminists ooze out - and she was just a rock of clarity. No ego, nothing to prove just her own person. Not owned by anyone or anything. Just possed by her own mind.
Pure and simple.