Word: backlashers
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...goes the reasoning, at least, of what Susan Faludi '81 argues was an anti-feminist "backlash" that swept America in the 1980s. In Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Faludi convincingly refutes this argument. First, women are not even close to achieving full equality in the U.S., and in the last decade they have made strides backwards. Second, many widely accepted social theories present a distorted view of how women feel, think and behave. And finally, opponents of the women's movement, and not the movement itself, have hurt women...
...Faludi, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is no conspiracy theorist. She does not believe that a group of men run the "backlash" from a smoke-filled room. Instead, she calls its workings "encoded and internalized, diffuse and chameleonic," and argues that even sympathetic feminists like Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan have unknowingly contributed to its success...
...central backlash mechanisms Faludi focuses on is the "feedback loop" between media coverage and popular culture. Her book provides a disturbing look at how the American media perpetuates misleading or inaccurate information just because it fits the preconceived notions of reporters and editors...
...Amendment: that Congress, and by later extension the states, "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The modern Supreme Court has taken that to mean that government cannot do anything that promotes either a particular faith or religion in general. The backlash was a long time coming, but now it is here with a vengeance...
...least Louisiana won't have a national backlash because of Duke being elected," said Barry M. Starr '93 of New Orleans...