Backlash Quotes - Page 2

• the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

  Susan Faludi

  Heart, Argument, Sexism

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.

  George Packer

  Jobs, Self, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've been fighting for nine years and in the beginning there was a lot of backlash and non-supporters of women fighters. We could never find many women fighters and when we did sometimes we were put on the card for the wrong reasons. It was frustrating. When I'd go train in gyms, it seemed like the guys at the gym were skeptical and didn't think I was as serious as they were because I was a woman, but today things are different.

  Miesha Tate

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Feminism, Lists, Problem

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Argument, Unhappiness, Responsible

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

  Naomi Wolf

  Political, Feminism, Advancement

  The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women (1990)

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• This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Important, Denial

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

  Eddie Glaude

  Zero, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

  Cornel West

  White, Challenges, Trying

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

  Leonard Peltier

  Country, Past, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I think it's worrisome that Barack Obama actually contributed to the bifurcation of our society. I don't think that he made nearly enough effort to be a uniter. And there's, I think, been a backlash against him, and some of that has been reflected in Trump's success. And I think it's really sad, and that's part of Obama's legacy.

  Mona Charen

  Thinking, Effort, Legacy

  "Barbershop: Trump's Tweets, Press Conference And Obama's Farewell". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2017.

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• Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.

  Ninian Smart

  People, Development, Might

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.

  Eva Marcille

  Witty, Smart, Blessed

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Issues, Hollywood

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

  Diana Trilling

  Running, Saws, Defense

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• What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

  Stephen Marche

  Real, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

  Eli Roth

  Speaks Out, Firsts, Speak

  "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.

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• America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

  Max Brooks

  War, America, Perception

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  Frances O'Grady

  Daughter, Mother, Expectations

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• So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in that direction...Whether they can pass something before the American public wakes up, I don't know.

  Steve King

  Moving, Thinking, Immigration

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Turkeys, International

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• Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

  Shane Black

  People, Mind, Scripts

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