Word: beckers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After seeing Rob Becker in all of his balding, beer-bellied caveman glory, it is extremely difficult to reconcile his stage persona with the sweet, slightly self-conscious voice in which he conducts interviews. He talks much more slowly and deliberately than on stage, but is just as engaging and amusing on the topic of his successful show, Defending the Caveman...
...from San Francisco to Chicago. The show has done so well in Boston, that it will run at the Wilbur Theater for two additional weeks. When asked if he could have anticipated the immense popularity of the show which he calls "an affectionate comedy about relations between the sexes," Becker immediately replies that he always had confidence in the show...
...Becker's inspirations for Caveman are numerous. He describes a party that he attended with some of his female friends. Inevitably the discussion turned to relationships and the male gender. After one woman turned to him and said, "The problem is that all men are assholes," it dawned on him that he was tired of explaining why men were not "assholes, slobs, selfish or insensitive." He began to make a joke out of the situation. Seeing the women laugh, it occurred to him that the best way that he could explain the differences between the sexes was to turn them...
...even before this party, Becker says, he experienced the different ways that men and women communicate with one another. As a boy he would often walk to school with five other girls whose conversations consisted of "gabbing about the opposite sex." These girls would often ask him for advice or his opinion of certain boys. Becker found himself in a position which he argues is not all that unfamiliar to any male with female friends: the representative for all guys. "I got pretty acclimated to being the universal guy, who knew everything about guy things. My friends would...
...Becker claims his goal is to transcend these misunderstandings. He offers as his thesis that the differences between men and women originated in the ancient age when men were hunters and women were gatherers. Consequently, men tend to be very singular and goal-oriented while women are more concerned with the abstract and the process...