Ben Vore’s Reviews > Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women > Status Update

Can’t help but think of The Atlantic c. 2026 when I read passages like, “The absence of real women in a news account that is allegedly about real women is a hallmark of 80s backlash journalism. The press delivered the backlash to the public through a series of ‘trend stories,’ articles that claimed to divine sweeping shifts while providing little in the way of evidence to support their generalizations.”