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A post from Double X writer Vanessa Gezari:
Emily, I think Reihan Salam is onto something in his recent piece
on the end of male power, in which he notes that the recession’s
disproportionate impact on men resonates in the world of politics,
where women are gaining ground (at least in places like Iceland) in a
backlash against male financial mismanagement. Salam is right that the
recession provides one more lens through which to observe global
power’s shift from men to women; he’s also right that the backlash
against men can spark a sometimes-violent secondary backlash against
women in places where they gain economic and political power ... (Read more in Double X.)
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In Foreign Policy, Reihan Salam is predicting
that male dominance will be a casualty of the economic downturn (or the
he-cession, as he calls it, since more men than women are being laid
off). He writes:
The great shift of power from males to females is likely to be
dramatically accelerated by the economic crisis, as more people realize
that the aggressive, risk-seeking behavior that has enabled men to
entrench their power—the cult of macho—has now proven destructive and
unsustainable in a globalized world.
What will follow is not a femitopia, but rather ... (Read more in Double X.)