Posted on 05/25/2005 12:31:09 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
NEW YORK, May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Maureen Dowd, following the success of her acclaimed New York Times bestselling book, Bushworld, has turned her lapidary prose and wicked wit to a topic even more incendiary than presidential politics: sexual politics. Dowd's new book, ARE MEN NECESSARY? When Sexes Collide, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on November 8th, 2005. The New York Times columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for saucy and incisive commentary about the roundelay of Bill, Monica, Hillary and Ken Starr, digs into the Y and X files, exploring the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat in America. Neil Nyren, Senior Vice President, Publisher and Editor in Chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons, acquired world and audio rights to ARE MEN NECESSARY? from literary agent Esther Newberg of ICM.
Mr. Nyren comments, "Maureen has been writing brilliantly about the battle of the sexes -- socially, politically, culturally -- for decades, so this is such a natural subject for her next book. I'm extremely excited about it."
In ARE MEN NECESSARY?, Dowd explains why getting ready for a date went from glossing, flossing and gargling to Paxiling, Fraxeling and Googling; why men are in an evolutionary and romantic shame spiral; why women have reeled backwards in many ways; why male politicians and male institutions get tripped up in so much monkey business; why many alpha women, from Martha to Hillary, can only have a successful second act after becoming humiliated victims; and why the new definition of "Having It All" is less about empowerment and equality than flirting and getting rescued.
Dowd observes that four decades after the sexual revolution, nothing has worked out as planned. The sexes are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever, from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room. Having reported on historic explosions on the sexual battlefield from Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential run to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings to Hillary Rodham Clinton's reign as co-President, Dowd explores not only how many of these shining feminist triumphs soured, backfiring on women - but how Hillary, a feminist icon busy plotting her campaign to be the first woman president, delivered the final blow to female solidarity herself.
Women's liberation has been less a steady trajectory than a confusing zigzag. Feminism lasted for a nanosecond and generated a gender tangle that has bewitched, bothered and bewildered men and women for forty years. Now comes a woman to cut through the tangle and tickle Adam's rib. The battle of the sexes will never be the same.
NOTE TO THE PRESS:
Maureen Dowd's first book, Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover, Berkley paperback) spent ten weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and was one of the most talked about books of 2004. National and print media included two appearances on NBC's "Today Show," appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman," "Imus in the Morning," "The Charlie Rose Show," "Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace," NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," as well as feature interviews with photos in both Vanity Fair and W Magazine, and a review in The New York Times Book Review.
Dowd became a New York Times op-ed columnist in 1995, having written about the White House and its occupants since the Reagan Era. Previously she wrote the "On Washington" column for The New York Times Magazine. She has also written for Time magazine, GQ, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Sports Illustrated and Redbook. She is a native of Washington, D.C.
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She's a bitter sourpuss, who obviously hasn't experienced
what a real man can bring her. What self-respecting man
would want to be with her, anyway?
ROTFL! Look at it this way; some women don't have much choice but to seek alternatives.
I don't think Maureen's outfit matches in those photos. I hope she wasn't trying to go for a "designer" look. It failed.
+Yep, only one exception -- a disappointment, but nothing of any great magnitude.
Let me help your void...lol. Try shopping at the Home Deport during the week, preferably the mornings when the contractors shop. Always pay attention to the men shopping ALONE in the grocery store, (unless they sashay).
I've never had any trouble finding men. They're all around. Just paste a smile on your face and stand tall. They'll notice and they'll find you. When you see one you want, then just let him catch you.
Ha! I'm not even sure you need the self-respecting part in there! The only difference is a self-respecting man wouldn't be scared of her.
Interesting.
Only one exception is amazing. The smaller the magnitude the better, in cases like that.
LOL! You're Googling the nearest Home Depot! LOL!
I'm telling you, Home Depot's are full of men in the early, weekday hours, and they always willing and offering to "help" find an item and then to tell you all about installing it, etc. Were I single, I could have a date every nite for a month of Sunday's just from the men I've met at a rather small HD in Mississippi....lol.
If you can't find a HD near you, I would imagine plumbing parts stores and lumber yards might offer some good findings too.
Yes, I am! (pouty face) I really don't know where the nearest one is. Hmmm. Men. Mississippi. So there are a lot of single men there?... Seriously, the nearest HD to me is a bit of a drive, but so is just about everything. I will consider these other great suggestions, too.
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Without American men, where would American women be?
Where would any of Western Civilization's women be for that matter?
Wherever they might be, they would not be allowed to whine about it.
Yeah, from what little I've seen, Mississippi is full of men. Don't know the age you're looking for, but the four times I've been my parish Church, there's been more men there than women, which now, that I think about it, strikes me as odd. The GOOD kind of odd.
Still, the Home Depot's or building supply stores are the richest target areas I've ever seen. I can always tell the single ones from the married ones too: no pot bellies!
Obviously we men are not necessary in her life.
There is a Home Depot equivalent w/n 30 miles of fortunecookie: LOWES Home Improvement Center
There ya go, cookie. Lowe's is just as good. Tell her it's worth a trip or three, but make sure she's on a search for an unusual part or something that's difficult to install. Believe me, the men love to explain, help and even volunteer their services. (NOT "those" services...lol..).
MAD TV once had a hilarious parody of the show "Felicity". Nicole Sullivan played "Intensity", a girl so obsessed with "Ben" that she stalked him. At the end of the sketch she's walking around town in a straight jacket and has a sign around her neck " Have you Seen Ben?"
I picture Dowd that way some day, sign reads "Bush Sucks. Have You Seen Michael?"
DON'T YOU DARE MISS THIS cookie and petronski.
I need to get some sleep, but I went ahead and Googled "where to meet men" and I am laughing so hard right now I have tears streaming down my face.
My advice about Home Depot is right on!
It's listed #4 right here: http://love.ivillage.com/snd/meetmarket/0,,doyenne_s63n,00.html
The writer even offers you more ideas within the confines of Home Depot: "there's do it yourself classes" although I tend to think you might get some doofuses and married wimps in those. A real man will already know how to install stuff, build stuff and paint. Besides, I doubt you're looking for the "decorator" type...lol.
Seems like Home Depot is becoming a real meet/meat market....lol. Go for it girl, and Lowe's has to be about the same. If not, come visit me and I'll plant you in my little town's HD! Trust me on this, my HD is target rich, and in the afternoons and evenings as well.
Well, I will look into that, check it out. LOL, the decorator type makes a good friend for a girl, but... I'm blushing, you googled 'where to meet men'? LOL.
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