Word: chauvinistic
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Lianna--an attractive woman in her early 30's--gave up college to marry her professor. By the time the movie begins, she has realized that she cannot stand him. The realization is not surprising: Dick epitomizes chauvinist arrogance with no redeeming qualities. The mystery is why it took her more than 13 years to come to this conclusion...
...find it confusing being a woman in the '80s?" she asks Dorothy/Michael, and that understates her case. Julie has a career. She has a baby but no husband. She has her male chauvinist director for a lover. She has a problem with alcohol. And now there is this strange attraction she feels for the tamperproof Dorothy...
Equally outrageous is Edgar Berman's The Compleat Chauvinist. This tome features chapters like "Politics I--The Dominoes and the Domminees" and "Testesterone--The Hormone of Champions." Must reading for your favorite MCP. But sexism cuts both ways this...
That charming chauvinist Charles Baudelaire said that woman should employ artifice to "rise above nature...
...comes, is just like their marriage: civilized, ruefully witty and without the slightest resonance. Blythe Banner has an agreeable asperity as Joan; Michael Moriarty has a disagreeable whininess as Richard. He should have been dissuaded from an attempt at an Ivy League accent, which turns him into a male chauvinist prig. But let the blame fall where it truly belongs: on a scenario by William Hanley that is without persuasive incident or dialogue, direction by Fielder Cook that is without texture or viewpoint. The aim here was obviously to do something elegant and up-market for television. The result...