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...This may be more freight than Thelma & Louise can carry. But not since | Fatal Attraction has a movie provoked such table-pounding discussions between men and women. Along partisan lines, men attack the movie as a male-bashing feminist screed, in which they are portrayed as leering, overbearing, violent swine who deserve what they get, from a bullet in the heart to being stuffed in a trunk. Women cheer the movie because it finally turns the tables on Hollywood, which has been too busy making movies about bimbos, prostitutes, vipers and bitches and glamourizing the misogynists who kill them...
...straightway she came forth and opened the shining doors and bade them in, and all went with her in their heedlessness . . . Now when she had given them the cup and they had drunk it off, presently she smote them with a wand, and in the sties of swine she penned them. So they had the head and voice, and bristles and shape of swine, but their mind abode even...
...hand, you could say I am turning men into swine, but I also have this other side of my head that is saying that I am forcing men -- not forcing, asking men -- to behave in ways that they are not supposed to have in society. If they want to wear a bra, they can wear a bra. If they want to cry, they can cry. If they want to kiss another man, they can kiss another man. I give them license to do that. My rebellion is not just against my father but against the priests...
...there is nothing new about biographies that portray the bad or disreputable along with the good. Outrageous conduct might incur punishment somewhere down the line, but that was an important part of the story. Men could lead mighty armies, forge tribes into nations and still behave like swine; women could embody all the public virtues and pieties and then drop poison into wine goblets or turn into manipulative she-devils in the boudoir. Of course. What else...
...entirely new types of flu viruses appear every few years. Months before each flu season, scientists must guess which strains will be most active and then tailor a vaccine to combat them. Sometimes their forecast is wrong, and the vaccine is virtually useless. In 1976, for example, the anticipated swine-flu epidemic never materialized...