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304 NOTESAdults from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey," Public Health Reports 107,no. 6 (November-December 1992): 665. According to Robins and Regier, PsychiatricDisorders in America, men are at least four or five times more likely than women tobecome alcoholics (p. 85).80. Faludi herself is generally distrustful of studies that claim to show that modernliberated single women are depressed. Such studies are part of the backlash. See herdiscussion of how the media discourage single women by suggesting that their lifestyleslead to depression. Faludi, Backlash, p. 36.81. Ibid., p. 37.82. Robins and Regier, Psychiatric Disorders in America, p. 73.83. Ibid., p. 72.84. Wendy Wood, Nancy Rhodes, and Melanie Whelan, "Sex Differences in PositiveWell-Being: A Consideration of Emotional Style and Marital Status," in PsychologicalBulletin 106, no. 2 (1989): 249. Wendy Wood, in this paper and others, reports on aseries of studies indicating that women and men have different styles of reporting ontheir emotions: "Women have . . . been found to report more extreme levels of fear,sadness, and joy than men" (p. 251).85. Mirabella, November 1993, p. 38. Hyperbole on women's victimization is very muchin vogue. Mirabella is not alone among fashion magazines in routinely publishingarticles promoting incendiary feminist advocacy statistics. In the same issue, Mirabellacalled Richard Gelles and Murray Straus "pop psychologists," attacking them for their"dispassionate" (hence unfeeling) research on domestic violence and for their findingson battery, which feminists call far too low. Unfortunately, Mirabella and its ilk fostermisandrism by introducing many a teenager to the resenter mode of male/femalerelationships.86. Ms. Futter is leaving Barnard to become president of the American Museum ofNatural History.87. Secretary Reich's words are found on the first page of the paperback edition ofFaludi's Backlash.Chapter 12: The Gender Wardens1. Nat Hentoff, Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee (New York: HarperCollins, 1992),p. 1.2. Jay Overocker, "Ozzie and Harriet in Hell," Heterodoxy 1, no. 6 (November 1992): 9.3. Ibid.4. "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma" (a dialogue between Friedan and de Beauvoir),Saturday Review, June 14^ 1975, p. 18. As an equity feminist I find much toadmire in de Beauvoir's works, but her bland tolerance for authoritarianism is notpart of it. She was perhaps unduly influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, joining him in hisMaoist phase in the seventies. This may help to explain, although it would not excuse,her readiness to use state power to force people to live "correct" lives.5. Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression(New York: Routledge, 1990), p. 5.6. Ibid., p. 51.7. Ibid., pp. 56, 61. Ms. Bartky is also aware that her ideas about the radical reconstructionof self and society are not now popular. It does not worry her: "For it reveals the