Whiplash

July, 1992

Life is hard. Then you write a book.Remember Queen for A Day? The popular television show of the Fifties would present a panel of women, each with a sob story about how she had backed over Junior with the family car on her way to aunt Matilda's funeral. The winner, or rather the whiner, went home with a Maytag washer.Susan Faludi, author of the best-selling feminist fusillade, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, seems to be going for the Maytag Nobel Prize. She claims that the f...