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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Promise Keepers' vision of gender relations within the family looks like this: men submit to god and women and children submit to men," she said...
...self-help and spiritual renewal literature, humor "writers" now have even more fodder with which to antagonize the "battle of the sexes." A grand favorite of this genre is the "girls rule, boys drool" pseudo-feminist text, as well as the male role-reversal counterpart, in which one gender is blasted incessantly in the hopes that the opposite sex will cry, "It's true!" between shrieks of laughter. Two recent addition to these battle, Macho Meditations: Daily Thoughts and Inspirations for Real Men and The Guys' Guide to Guys' Videos: The First Video Guide with an Attitude,certainly help fuel...
...which could be combined into the genre of "Action." Each movie has a five-category pictography rating "Violence," "Profanity," "Babes," "Cool Cars" and "Hero Worship." The critiques themselves include segments entitled "Why Guys Love It" and "Honey, You'll Like This Movie..." that supposedly encourage bridging the gender gap--until you read the actual reasons one is supposed to offer his girlfriend or wife...
...case, though, her character is unique not only by virtue of her gender or her strong personality...