Word: zipless
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...1930s, but so far, this feels more like a '70s flashback. It's not just that Zac Efron's hair is almost as shaggy as Shaun Cassidy's or that jeans are once again worn tight enough to read Braille through the back pocket. It's the whole feckless, zipless, helpless vibe that has settled across the land, from the factories of Motor City to the gas lines of Charlotte, from the boardrooms of New York to the subdivisions of California. What's that word again? Oh, yes: malaise...
...employ the same commitment-shy, sexually impersonal behavior that men have been traditionally criticized for displaying. Due to their aversion to intimacy, they tend to consider the men in their lives as disposable as their latest fashion trends. Samantha’s brazen avocation of the “zipless screw” and Carrie’s insensitive decision to put a passionate fling above a serious relationship, both promote a sex life that is unattached, uncaring and unhealthy. While their uninhibited promiscuity does help to mitigate sexual inequality, it is ironically regressive. When the characters treat their...
...Viagra-envying side of the debate are plenty of women who find their libidos drained by surgery, menopause, crying infants or overwork. Plus, there is a significant minority still seeking the zipless interaction popularized by Erica Jong in Fear of Flying: skip the relationship, the candlelight and the wine, and cut to the chase. I know at least one respectable grandma who is preparing for the advent of a female Viagra by stocking up on batteries for her vibrator...