“The patriarchal power structure might sometimes be hamhanded in enforcing its oppressive norms, but often it’s tricky. It hangs back amid an organic feminist boom and then disguises itself amid the earnest supporters, using their revolutionary vocabulary to argue for the status quo. It sows division…”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“The backlash has decided it’s here, but that doesn’t mean we have to let it crush us. It’s not the ’90s anymore.”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“Find a woman who will sell out solidarity for a pat on the head and a cookie from the establishment, and use her identity as a dodge for claims of overt misogyny. If you’re really successful, this tactic will bear fruit for generations, as the precocious Katie Roiphes of yesteryear become the season…”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“But where Jones frames this as a clash between feminist factions ― 'One group of feminists will try to define sexual assault and another group will call them alarmists' ― it appears rather to be a modern elaboration of an age-old antifeminist tactic: Make it clear that you’ll give top dollar and top…”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com
“The sharper sting comes from a more intimate betrayal: woman after woman using her prestigious media platform and her disingenuous claims of feminist identity to undercut a movement that uplifts women’s voices and questions sexual norms that harm them.”— Claire Fallon, huffingtonpost.com