Word: duh
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...that brings up another reason why the flightiness of contemporary feminism is a problem. Some would argue that if the women's movement were still useful, it would have something to say; it's dead because it has won. Some wags have coined a phrase for this: Duh Feminism. But there's nothing obvious about the movement's achievements. It's true that we now have a woman crafting America's foreign policy (Madeleine Albright), that a woman is deciding which Barbie dolls to produce (Jill Barad, CEO of Mattel) and that a woman (Catharine MacKinnon) pioneered the field...
Will such evidence be sufficient? Early handicapping from antitrust experts gives Klein high odds in the first part of his case--proving Windows is a monopoly, duh--but rates his chance of overall victory as fifty-fifty at best. "Justice will have to show Microsoft has achieved a dangerous amount of control of the browser market," notes George Mason law professor William Kovacic, a former Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcer. "That's a fairly demanding test...
KENNETH STARR Duh? $30 million to prove Vince Foster killed himself...
...maybe he's saying he'd rather put up with a cold snap in June than be burned, literally, at the stake in December. In which case, I have a retort for him that is snappy enough for summer: Duh...
...band's laudably gritty feminist outlook isn't more creatively realized, however. Many of the songs on Dig Me Out feature lyrics that are either too abstract to have much impact or too obvious to have much poetic resonance. The dull Heart Factory, for example, is about--duh--a factory that makes hearts: "Now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door." It doesn't take Deep Blue to figure out that that metaphorical construct is a yawner...