He may have lost his perch at Fox, and that’s important, but he has not lost his voice, or his ability to make millions of dollars.ĭo you think that the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, and Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, might allow women to hear each other in new ways, and make greater strides against institutional oppressions? - Barbara Kellam-Scott, Masthead member 1 book on the best-seller list is written by Bill O’Reilly. But we should also remember that they didn’t lose their power. So am I shocked by what has happened in the past year, that some of those very specific men lost their perches? Yes. He remained the top anchor of Fox News, a network that was so powerful, it propelled presidents into office. I reported on sexual-harassment allegations against Bill O’Reilly when I was a young reporter in 2004. For years, even for very specific men about whom allegations have been made, those allegations were out in public for years and years and years. Traister: Sure, they are making a difference insofar as there’s actually a difference in how consequences are being meted out. And we need to understand their fury as politically and socially catalytic.Īre movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp making a difference? - Barbara Didrichsen, Masthead member Part of what this book is about is the fact that women’s anger is not taken seriously as politically consequential and valid, in part because women are sucked back into a maternal or wifely aesthetic framework.
But if the only way we can invoke our authority is by making a comparison to a domestic and maternal sphere, that’s a very limited scope. Their power is within a domestic sphere, within familial relationships. Rebecca Traister: That is historically the context in which women have been offered what power is on the table. Is female anger really always taken less seriously? While reading the book, a a member reminded me of the phrase, “ When mama’s unhappy, everyone’s unhappy.” It seemed to her that, especially when women invoke their roles as wives and mothers when angry, their anger is extremely effective.
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