Culture wars can be defined as the result of inequality between social groups. It is the struggle for equal opportunities and representation within society faced by many oppressed groups. This term relates directly to feminism because it aligns with the sole purpose of the movement. The feminist movement has created a platform for the advocacy of women’s rights as they relate men’s. There is a clear imbalance whether that be in regards to unequal pay/representation within the workforce, the rights to dictate the choices made with one’s body, or shedding light on the horrors that are experienced by women all over the world who are sexually brutalized or trapped in abusive relationships. Susan Faludi closely supports this definition of culture wars by outlining the injustices faced by women in the 1980s in the passage assigned from Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women. She invites the reader into her mindset and explains how the media is a huge factor in diluting the successes of the women’s suffrage movement and how that deters women of the future from continuing to fight for true equality and taking advantage of the present victories within the movement. She points out how the media uses the successes of feminist advocacy as a tool to support claims that woman are not in fact happy to be on a leveled social and economic playing field (somewhat) with men by presenting unsupported claims of shortage of men as spouses, infertility, and even widespread mental illness; a direct effect” of women joining the workforce. Faludi refutes all these claims with specific examples of how speaking out against injustice has given women access to amenities that previously were not an option or thought. She even goes as far as analyzing how the media has been fighting against feminist gains throughout the decades dating back as early as the Victorian era and after ; classified fittingly as “backlash”.