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31 Oct 2002 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorenei think i need to re-read susan faludi's backlash. it's been just over four years.
[edit: prompted by the review on amazon which this is excerpted from, of her second book, which came out two years ago:
Faludi attributes all sorts of contemporary cultural maladies and madness to chic pseudo-psychological causes, attempting to draw a comprehensive portrait of contemporary American males en route as the hopelessly flawed artifacts of an antiquated male-dominated culture whose characteristics are now failing males themselves. Of course, of all this is self-serving nonsense, and is a pretty thinly disguised effort to celebrate women by silent comparison. See how far we've come, baby? Rather than appreciating the ways in which each of the dozens of symptoms she describes are connected to the confusing & disruptive torrent of technical, economic, & social change erupting from the so-called "third wave" of the digital revolution, she infers that it is the lack of vision of a male-dominated society that is to blame. Nice try, but as chic as all this is, it warrants no cigar.
really, a paragraph which needs no introduction, unless you've no idea about susan faludi and the book in question. er, and then i'm a bit tired right now, so.]
[edit: prompted by the review on amazon which this is excerpted from, of her second book, which came out two years ago:
Faludi attributes all sorts of contemporary cultural maladies and madness to chic pseudo-psychological causes, attempting to draw a comprehensive portrait of contemporary American males en route as the hopelessly flawed artifacts of an antiquated male-dominated culture whose characteristics are now failing males themselves. Of course, of all this is self-serving nonsense, and is a pretty thinly disguised effort to celebrate women by silent comparison. See how far we've come, baby? Rather than appreciating the ways in which each of the dozens of symptoms she describes are connected to the confusing & disruptive torrent of technical, economic, & social change erupting from the so-called "third wave" of the digital revolution, she infers that it is the lack of vision of a male-dominated society that is to blame. Nice try, but as chic as all this is, it warrants no cigar.
really, a paragraph which needs no introduction, unless you've no idea about susan faludi and the book in question. er, and then i'm a bit tired right now, so.]
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Date: 31 Oct 2002 03:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 31 Oct 2002 04:00 pm (UTC)