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...just to name two. These movies all explore the deeper male mind, swimmingly (or perhaps frighteningly?) portraying academic vision of the subliminal self of the modern male. This string of sympathy for a group of people rarely sympathized with is only the beginning; nipping on the heels of Susan Faludi's much acclaimed study of the betrayal of the American man, these movies divulge further and further behind the cursory Bruce Willis-ized front that American media has loaned to the yuppie male...
...whatever its flaws--and they will, for some, include its brutal, off-putting imagery--Fight Club can't be ignored. It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence...
...Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (Morrow; 662 pages; $27.50), we meet men on the edge and over the edge: porn stars, hyperfanatical sports fans, wife beaters, gang bangers, a battle-weary parade of America's veritable down-and-outers. This is masculinity in crisis, all right, and Faludi, the author of Backlash, a 1991 best-selling study of feminism, wants to know why. Initially, she writes, her question was, "Why are so many men so disturbed by the prospect of women's independence?" But in the end, she says, what compelled her was why men--like the feminists...
...Stiffed is a brilliant, important book. Unlike Backlash, which felt at times like a compendium of statistics and a sweeping survey of popular culture, here Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty. These men talk to her as they have probably never talked in their lives before, and the rich and intricate tapestry she weaves from their stories is enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. When she describes the family spirit and pride in their work of the men at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, shut down by the government...
...book is overlong--even the paperback will be hungry-man size--but it is easy to see why Faludi couldn't stop writing. Her men have much to say, and in Faludi they found their dream woman: one who listens, and who understands...