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Into this rhetorical arena comes Susan Faludi, 32, a soft-spoken, sharp- penned, Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Wall Street Journal who spent four years writing Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, published by Crown in October. In 552 crowded pages, Faludi constructs a thesis out of alarming though...
It makes an interesting parlor game for contrarian readers to provide the counterimages, ones that dispute Faludi's thesis by showing that women were also often portrayed as strong and fulfilled. Was Hope Steadman any more an archetype of the '80s than Murphy Brown? The fashion press may have lauded...
Contrary to Faludi's backlash thesis, the signs that women are having second thoughts are not purely an invention of the media. In 1985, given the choice between having a job or staying home to care for the family, 51% of women preferred to work, according to the Roper Organization...
"Michelangelo is dead/a gut/a cartoon character," you are saying. "I'm not scared of him/it/that stupid-looking fictional turtle. I'm going back to my thesis."
MICHELANGELO is so scary precisely because most of us understand it so poorly. I mean, how does "code" spread? And if this "code" is so "malicious," why did it wait until Michelangelo's birthday to annihilate your "thesis"? How did anyone find out about Michelangelo? Will Donatello obliterate our files...