Word: maledom
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Like Hollywood itself, this kind of reasoning is all very male. How many female directors are known for running projects into the ground due to arrogant self-confidence? Oh wait, American female directors hardly exist, for reasons having a lot to do with the above maledom. We’ll always have Sofia Coppola, but though a promising filmmaker, she has obviously been helped in no small amount by being the daughter of the reigning king of brilliantly self-destructive, over-the-top masculinity...
...boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish cool that comes from being societally on the outs. So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom. Hence South Park's white Eric Cartman, one of whose trademark lines is, "Kiss my black...
...someone else's shoes often takes poetic license. Many women, mulling Clinton's sins, don't ask how they would have acted in his situation but how they would have acted if burdened with male genes--and, perhaps, with a sense of entitlement inflated by years of alpha maledom. Maybe, for enhanced accuracy, some women throw in any distinctive Clinton genes for large appetite--and maybe even formative childhood experiences. (He is reported to have once recalled being the "fat boy in the Big Boy jeans," before his rising social stature started turning ladies' heads...
...splendor of Kresge Hall or lunch in a friend's House, contains, alas, one inherent blot. Radcliffe's girls are also members of the University, and they too could eat in the Houses at will; escaping the clutches of Messrs. Hazen and Albiani, they would invade the precincts of maledom and put an end to unfettered, masculine repartee...
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