Word: counterattacks
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Throughout history, Faludi argues, any time women tried to loosen their corsets and breathe more freely, they met with a suffocating counterattack. In the 1980s this backlash surfaced in the Reagan White House, the courts, Hollywood and, above all, the mass media, whose collective message to women went something like this: Feminism is your worst enemy. All this freedom is making you miserable, unmarriageable, infertile, unstable. Go home, bake a cake, quit pounding on the doors of public life, and all your troubles will go away...
...Crimson's goal sparked a Big Red counterattack. Led by senior Kim Ratushny, Cornell rattled off several shots on Villiotte...
...William Kennedy Smith verdict leave plenty of room for argument. The female accusers gave credible testimony; they seemed to have little to gain, and a great deal to lose, by coming forward with their charges; they both took on men with powerful allies and vast resources to counterattack; they both passed lie- detector tests. Would the Palm Beach decision have changed if the jury had been allowed to hear the testimony of the three other women who have stories of sexual violence during encounters with Smith? Would the Thomas vote have gone differently if his story had been challenged...
...Bush Administration has assigned DAN QUAYLE the task of leading the counterattack on the pit-bull candidacy of PAT BUCHANAN. The Vice President will visit New Hampshire three times before the Feb. 18 primary in an effort to convince voters that his boss hasn't abandoned the conservative creed. Secret Service agents will scout out bowling alleys and shopping malls where Quayle plans to make "spontaneous" stops to assert that the President understands the fears of middle-class Americans. Besides Buchanan, Quayle faces another nemesis: himself. A new poll indicates that 77% of New Hampshire Republicans would rather vote...
Defense attorney Black mounted a devastating counterattack on the women's stories. He argued that the three cases did not represent a "signature style," and that the only real question in the Palm Beach case was whether the woman consented or not. When Judge Mary Lupo ruled that the women could not testify because Lasch had failed to establish enough parallels between their stories and the one from Smith's accuser, the prosecution's case, for all practical purposes, was over...