Susan Faludi
Susan Faludi
Susan Charlotte Faludiis an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 April 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
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And you look at the candidates, and particularly George W. Bush's, just imagery-wise, allows people to feel that -- particularly men, to feel that something was handed down from father to son, that there is a legacy. And similarly with Gore, who's father was senator, and similarly with someone like John McCain, who just wrote a book on his father.
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One of the things I have found in reporting on this book is that men do not feel listened to, ... That's part of their anger towards feminism, they feel like everybody else's agenda is more important than theirs.
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One thing that has struck me so far about the presidential election is how much it's a father-son story, which I think is very telling, because so much of the men's crisis is that they feel there's nothing being handed down, that there's no patrimony,
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Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
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They feel cheated of a useful role in society, and that's what manhood has historically been grounded in,
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Women are enslaved by their own liberation.
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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.
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The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.
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As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
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I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.
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A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
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The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
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For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.