The Heart Of The Backlash Argument: Women

The Central Argument Of The Backlash - That Women's Equality Is Responsible For Women's Unhappiness.

The Women's Movement Hit My Neighborhood Like A Freight Train. Everybody Got Divorced. You Wonder What Would Have Happened To Women If The Suburbs Hadn't Been Built.

The System Of Heroism Depends On Women To Be Weak So Men Can Be Strong.

In Place Of Equal Respect, The Nation Offered Women The Miss America Beauty Pageant, Established In 1920-the Same Year Women Won The Vote.

The Demand That Women "return To Femininity" Is A Demand That The Cultural Gears Shift Into Reverse, That We Back Up To A Fabled Time When Everyone Was Richer, Younger, More Powerful.