The E.R.A. was opposed by virtually every other women's organization; they believed that it was reactionary.
The formation of Pussy Riot in Moscow last September was not a culmination of long-harboured musical ambition, songcraft or that strange alchemy of notes, lyrics, personalities and desire that sometimes spawns a rock 'n' roll band; rather it was reactionary – a furious two-fingered salute to Vladimir Putin's decision to return to the presidency, a protest writ large in music and femininity.
"It is reactionary and is essentially just tinkering around with its offering.
"It was reactionary, to be honest," Ms. Lampitt said.
"I think the first reaction would have been that it was reactionary.
More than that, it is reactionary, because while it purports to embrace a nihilist neutrality, it endorses a capitalist status quo that oppresses the poor.
But Vogel asks, "What possible reason, explanation and justification can you find in your heart for the film that opened the Festival?" He asserts, "Cinematically, this film does not exist … Ideologically, it is reactionary".
In "AG Indexical, with a Little Help from H.M.," a takeoff on the Balanchine/Stravinsky "Agon," she had, among her cast of four, one real ballet dancer, Emily Coates, whose art she seemed to honor, sort of, until, in the last movement, she apparently decided that it was reactionary.
The counter-revolution is not just a defensive position taken by the enemies of the revolution; it is reactionary forces in their own right trying to profit from conditions of fluidity to shape the world to their liking – just as we are doing..."...
