So it may seem surprising to see her reappear today with what appears to be a bright shining new attitude. Faludi has spent the time since writing her last book analysing men and what she finds is not a pretty picture. Men are in crisis. To reach this conspectus with a currently popular vision of men as being pervasively confused and screwed up creatures, she had to slip many of her previous feminist attitudes behind the couch. The usual approach taken by feminists when dealing with men as victims, is to lay the blame at male feet.
Feminists usually indicate that men are victims of the system that they themselves created.
If they are victims, it is of their own patriarchy and therefore again, men have only themselves to blame. And yet Faludi clearly adopts a position toward men that seems positively warm and sympathetic. Men are no longer seen as inherently violent. She claims males have been betrayed by an existing culture, which she doesn't make too much effort to define. This may seem ironic for those who have read Backlash critically.