Word: feminist
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Though at an abstract level the leveling of the chorus may seem antidemocratic, in practice it disperses the site of the conflict. Medea’s struggle is no longer that of just one woman, but rather a general feminist dilemma...
...hemlines each season, nor should they be reduced to a binary distinction. As Lyn Mikel Brown, an associate professor of women’s gender and sexuality studies at Colby College, told the Orlando Sentinel, “‘modesty’ sounds like pre- or post-feminist jargon for stepping back, acting nice, not making waves… I worry that what will follow is a push for girls to be more accommodating and conservative...
...indignant militancy, I would like to assert that I recognize that some women don’t want to get dolled up or feel that they are somehow selling themselves short if they don’t submit to the prevailing night scene. I’m not anti-feminist. I want to slice the issue such that women recognize their unique force on campus. The simple truth is that we don’t need to become men to gain clout. After all, I think I have social power therefore I have social power...
This is also Kelley’s first show to feature strong men and wishy-washy women, a flip-flop from his usual pseudo-feminist productions. Unfortunately, Ally McBeal this ain’t; the reversed formula simply doesn’t work. Even an actor of Spader’s skill can’t support a show on his own, and the boring characters Kelley surrounds him with fail to gain the audience’s interest...
...only villains. There are also women who righteously judge other women: the local gossip, the neighbor who chides Lynette over how she disciplines her kids. None too subtly, these bad women are piggy looking and dowdy, unlike the lissome, likable Huffman and Hatcher. It's not the most feminist way of drawing distinctions, but sisterhood goes only so far (on both sides of the camera: the creator and 6 of the 10 writers...