Word: backlashers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blowing the lid off why men don't look at maps.) But at best, these series show TV arriving at a more nuanced understanding of manhood. In the dreaded '70s "sensitive man" era, feminist guys tended to simply, implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post-postfeminist TV man isn't perfect. But at least he's trying to strike a balance between being Alan Alda and being The Man Show's Adam Carolla...
...government finds itself caught between its commitment to help the U.S. and its commitment to the Taliban - the latter, together with Bin Laden himself, far more popular on the impassioned streets of Pakistan. Supporting U.S. military action against Bin Laden and the Taliban will inevitably spark a dangerous domestic backlash in Pakistan. But failing to support the U.S. effort will leave Islamabad dangerously isolated. General Musharraf finds himself at a crossroads, and very soon, something will have to give...
...don’t fear] so much backlash on campus—we have great faith in the reasonableness and decency of the Harvard community,” Mohamed said. “But the fact remains that in the rest of the country, acts of retaliation have taken place, and it would be prudent for Muslims on this campus to take precautions...
...want to be armed with the only information we have available,” he said. “So many things were going through our minds, apart from people living in New York. We were concerned with how it affects Muslim students and the possibility of backlash against them, [and] for Jewish students and the backlash against them...
Students across campus expressed similar concerns about ethnic backlash. Vahid H. Zadeh ’04, a British ethnic Iranian, said he has already heard some racially charged remarks...