Talk:Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:27, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Crichton

The text of Crichton's criticism of Backlash can be found at the ILF Digest (http://www.wbsi.org/ilfdigest/commentaries_mar_04.htm) but is absent from his offical website (http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-whyspeculate.html). I wonder if these comments are worthy of being included if Crichton himself did not. Hazel75 (talk) 11:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if an author's estimation of their own work (in this case, only inferred) should be used to gauge whether it should be included or not. We'd have to delete everything on Kafka, for one! But the criticism is more in the nature of a passing mention, so isn't particularly worthy in that regard. There are more substantive criticisms (and praise) to be found. Шизомби (talk) 15:08, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would support removing the Crichton quotation; it's a throwaway line without any argument or support. He's also no expert. Any objections? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Giordanob (talk • contribs) 02:14, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Voice

A lot of Faludi's claims are given in Wikipedia's voice. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:22, 10 August 2015 (UTC).[reply]