Word: backlashers
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...soft-spoken author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women told an overflow audience of 500 that the popular media and reactionary politicians have launched an "insidious attack" on women's rights...
...Lately lifestyle journalists, eager for the latest trend story, have been phoning me and asking if the backlash is over," said Faludi, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal. "That was last year,' they say. 'What...
...backlash doesn't work like hemlines," Faludi continued. "It's still here, and the effects... are increasingly being felt on every front...
Clinton may also be suffering more than his rivals, and more than past candidates, from the backlash of anger against all politics and politicians, which has been far stronger in this campaign than ever before. In another election cycle, the Governor might have profited from his reputation as a master politician who has shown a rare ability in Arkansas to convince often clashing interests that he is on their side. Clinton's defenders like to point out that the now sainted Franklin D. Roosevelt was often regarded in his day as a crafty politician promising something for everybody...
...majority consciousness has changed," said Steinem. "Backlash is dangerous because it could...