Word: maleness
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...feminist” party titled “Fuck the Man! Let’s Dance!*” The asterisk following the party’s slogan helpfully informed me that “Fuck the Man!” is “not an anti-male slogan...
...making wrong decisions, of not fixing things, of not always being sure of who she is or what she believes in. While that was understandable a hundred years ago (and still is in many less developed parts of the world), modern women have little excuse. We voice awareness of male-female equality, but nonetheless act in ways that perpetuate the conception of a man as “the norm” and a woman as an aberration...
...delays to women’s quest for equality are frustrating to say the least. When women truly realize our dynamism, we will not need to throw “Fuck the Man!” parties—any more than men today feel a need to throw male-empowering “Fuck Women!” ones (although I suppose one might count final club parties among the latter). [see editor's note below...
Modern women should consciously reject this age-old inferiority complex regarding men and shoulder the responsibility that equality entails. We need to stop perpetuating the idea of our sex as secondary by forcing a false male-female dichotomy where there isn’t one. It’s time to concentrate on other things—like education, politics, or scientific research. If we truly realize that we are primary and that we are equal to the Man, then it is surely just gratuitous to “Fuck?...
...domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...