Word: postfeminist
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...another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner who has fallen on hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show is turning out to be a smash hit. Among these characters moves gentle, sophisticated, thwarted Billy Litchfield, a kind of freelance Guy Friday to rich people, who is very nice...
...what I find so appealing about B-47, other than the lack of labs, is that it makes life make sense. As a humanities concentrator overwhelmed by complicated, postfeminist relationships and a sprawling, postmodern thesis, I like learning how physical and emotional reactions rely on small molecules. When Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Jon Clardy explained that naturally frisky male meadow voles suddenly became faithful and prone to “huddling” with females when injected with a gene of their monogamous cousin the prairie vole, the eyes of every woman in the class...
According to Friday, jealousy is an important part of the postfeminist friction between the sexes. Jealousy is built into any relationship, and many women are so unsure of men that they are downplaying their need for intimacy and putting all their emotional energy into work. "The envy and anger between the sexes is so extreme that you see all these women having children without fathers," says Friday. "It's a way of devaluating men. It's a sign of envy--'Who needs men? I'll live alone...
...Data from focus groups, conversations with men around the country and a poll conducted by the men's cable network Spike TV and shared exclusively with TIME suggest that men, most interestingly those in their early 20s through early 40s--the first generation to come of age in the postfeminist era--are adjusting to their evolving roles, and they seem to be doing so across racial and class lines. But in straining to manage their responsibilities at work and home, many men say they don't feel an adequate sense of control in either realm. "There's a push-pull...
There was more to the Kids than drag, though, and more to their drag than easy yuks. They were postfeminist men having absurd, dark fun with gender roles and p.c., long before The Man Show dumbed both subjects down. As Bruce McCulloch recalls in a bonus-disc interview, for instance, his girlfriend's being hit on by leches inspired Cabbage Head, a vegetable-pated boor who claims women who won't sleep with him are bigots. ("It's because I have a cabbage for a head, isn't it?!") The Kids were also among the first TV comics to deal...