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Susan Faludi, author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women in America, a venal and fatuous but bestselling condemnation of men, has done it again. Her new work is titled, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.
Huh? Has one of the leading new rage women doffed her bullpoking spurs in favor of truth, justice and the equalitarian way? A quick read of the excerpt of Stiffed published in Newsweek might leave that impression, but it doesn't take scholarly analysis to detect a lot of smoke though few mirrors.
In brief
The way to understand Stiffed is not as the ditzy stumbling of a half-witted new rage woman onto a few fundamental truths, neither as a profound effort by a bigot to begin the same journey Warren Farrell undertook so many years ago nor even a shrewd attempt to emulate Clinton's successful effort to co-opt the conservative agenda, for above all it serves precisely the same agenda of her original bleat, Backlash.
The pop feminist movement is near or has reached its apex and will soon begin to wane. The backlash so long foretold by men but denied by pop feminists until Faludi made it the means by which to reinvigorate their misandristic movement is on schedule to emerge as a force within the next eight years (give or take the usual). And though pop feminism is in the consolidation of power phase it can but benefit from delaying the inevitable backlash for as long as possible.
How to do that? Faludi's answer: Stiffed.
A more detailed analysis will follow. Until then, look with more than askance upon this latest work, but without knee-jerking to the obvious conclusions. Faludi has an agenda.
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