Women on the Verge: Susan Faludi & Molly Ivins in Conversation on Stage

  • Molly cuts back in
  • Texas Observer gaver her the freedom to make her own mistakes
  • Why she left the New York Times
  • "Cultural Differences"
  • New Mexico story about chickens: "Gang pluck."
  • Abe Rosenthal
  • Man with a "protubulent abdomen."
  • "Inexpensive instrument"
  • Dallas Times Herald was a classic victim of the 80's.
  • Dallas Morning News closed the Dallas Times Herald on a Sunday.
  • Questions & Answers
  • What it means for feminism that there are so few people of color and so few men in the audience.
  • Feminism is more strongly supported by low-income women & women of color.
  • Backlash thesis: "When in doubt, blame feminism"
  • Boom economic years don't have the effects on rate of poverty as Conservatives claim. New Deal wasn't the issue.
  • Ann Richards
  • SF-Some of the most esteemed minds seem to go confused with questions about feminism.
  • Roe decision question
  • H. Ross Perot
  • "Ring tailed tooter"
  • Perot story about collect calls.
  • H. Ross Perot is slightly paranoid.
  • Clayton Williams
  • The backlash against women and backlash against women.
  • Rodney King as almost like a rape case.
  • The victim was on trial.
  • The exclusion of LGBT issues from Faludi's book.
  • The real connection between attacks on feminism and how they conflate feminism and lesbianism.
  • The LGBT community and women set in opposition.
  • Molly: Argument for Clinton
  • It is not a bad idea to elect people with great political skill.
  • Real women's issues are poverty and violence.
  • Troubled by violence in society.
  • SF- In order to get money into the hands of women, we first need to get women into positions of power.
  • Questions & Answers and discussion ends.
  • Molly's fundraising speech begins
  • Molly's fundraising speech ends.