It hadn’t happened to her in months, but Susan Faludi, 66, experienced the mirage of feeling “marginally okay about life” a few days ago. But I’m somebody who writes about women’s rights, so I can’t unplug,” the celebrated journalist says during a video call from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in mid-September. There’s very much a Lord of the Flies feeling here," she says, citing the William Golding classic novel. And there are even calls to repeal women’s right to vote.”Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in 'Sleepless in Seattle' (1993). Nothing is resolved by that approach; feminists and trans rights activists have a lot in common.