The Backlash! - September 1997

Feminism Unclothed

Where we turn the soapbox over to feminists.

Congress should amend the new welfare law to allow women to pursue postsecondary education by allowing college study and work study to count toward a welfare recipient's work requirement.

- Title IX at 25: Report Card on Gender Equity, AAUW Public Policy Issues, 1997

So, as the Promise Keepers get into formation, feminist activists are working to unmask the religious political extremists organizing its rank and file troops. ... Feminists will not be fooled by the many recent public disclaimers about this feel-good form of male supremacy with its dangerous political potential. We have seen them coming for some time.

- Patricia Ireland, President of N.O.W., The Washington Post, Sunday, September 7, 1997; Page C03

"Men and women are not from different planets; women are from a poorer neighborhood."

- Dr. Regina Barreca, July 1997

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. The great movement of true emancipation has not met with a great race of women who could look liberty in the face. Their narrow, puritanical vision banished man, as a disturber and doubtful character, out of their emotional life. Man was not to be tolerated at any price, except perhaps as the father of a child, since a child could not very well come to life without a father. ... But woman's freedom is closely allied with man's freedom, and many of my so-called emancipated sisters seem to overlook the fact that a child born in freedom needs the love and devotion of each human being about him, man as well as woman. Unfortunately, it is this narrow conception of human relations that has brought about a great tragedy in the lives of the modern man and woman.

- Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation, 1910

It would be so misleading to the jury, it would be so inflammatory to the jury, that they're probably not gonna be able to decide whether there was a rape on this occasion if they hear of the prior sexual history.

- Gloria Allred, CNN, September 29, 1997

I was preparing the ground for women's lib by always playing the victim.

- Shelley Winters, Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo, August 31, 1997

Even better news: According to the Society of Women Engineers, average earnings of female engineers under age 30 are about $2,000 a year higher than those of their male colleagues.

- Caitlin Kelly, Working Woman, June 1997

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