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While women as a whole have suffered setbacks,attacks on feminism have also undergone a change.In the 1980s, feminists were criticized for beingtoo loud and shrill, said Faludi. "Now in the '90swhen we protest, we're labeled as whiny...
This same dissent labels Take Back the Night as "a wacko Left ideology-fest" and its organizers as "shrill feminists...with a bizarre political agenda...
Whatever its organizers say, Take Back the Night always seems to degenerate into a wacko-Left ideology-fest: shrill feminists equating the paucity of women faculty with rape; opportunistic professional victims fusing affirmative action and campus safety; monotonous chant-mongerers exhorting marchers to "--the patriarchy...
...Jump Jim Crow," one of the minstrel songs on the album, features a sparse arrangement of guitar and mandolin which complements Shocked's simple vocals. Towards the end of the song, Shocked signs "Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah" in a soft, shrill voice reminiscent of early 20th century popular music. Moral and political implications of the blackface minstrelsy aside, "Jump Jim Crow" is one of the most successful songs on the album...
...obvious beneficiary is Brown -- Public Enemy No. 1 for Establishment Democrats -- who inherits a larger platform than he might otherwise deserve. The former California Governor's shrill attacks on Clinton as the "scandal a week" candidate of complacent political insiders led the customarily neutral / party chairman, Ron Brown, to denounce the candidate's "scorched-earth policy" of verbally assaulting the Democratic front runner. Snapped Jerry Brown: "I think it is understandable that ((Ron Brown)) becomes overzealous in his protection of the old order...