Posted on 10/30/2005 6:14:25 AM PST by shrinkermd
When I entered college in 1969, women were bursting out of theirs 50's chrysalis, shedding girdles, padded bras and conventions. The Jazz Age spirit flared in the Age of Aquarius. Women were once again imitating men and acting all independent: smoking, drinking, wanting to earn money and thinking they had the right to be sexual, this time protected by the pill. I didn't fit in with the brazen new world of hard-charging feminists. I was more of a fun-loving (if chaste) type who would decades later come to life in Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw. I hated the grubby, unisex jeans and no-makeup look and drugs that zoned you out, and I couldn't understand the appeal of dances that didn't involve touching your partner. In the universe of Eros, I longed for style and wit. I loved the Art Deco glamour of 30's movies. I wanted to dance the Continental like Fred and Ginger in white hotel suites; drink martinis like Myrna Loy and William Powell; live the life of a screwball heroine like Katharine Hepburn, wearing a gold lamé gown cut on the bias, cavorting with Cary Grant, strolling along Fifth Avenue with my pet leopard.
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Troubling narcissism may result in her being emotionally troubled at times; however, her writing and assessments are first rate even though you can violently disagree at times.
She's a hysterical moonbat.
You must have self prescibed some of the same stuff she is on if you believe any of the tripe she spews.
And all I got was this crappy t-shirt.
And I have to question why Maureen Dowd, one of the most bitter and pathetic people I can imagine, thinks anyone should seriously consider her scribblings on the subject of romance/relationships.
It's style over substance and I don't care for her style.
What the heck?
Dowd's sole subject is Dowd.
Dowd Jonesing and gross accumulations of moss on the Maureen meter.
Maureen "The Curse of the Pulitzer" Dowd. She's again lamenting a world in which secretaries get boyfriends; lady CEOs do not. What world is she living in?? Almost all the women that I know in highpaying positions are married.
Maybe it's just that men don't want to date a woman who looks like a defrocked Catholic nun circa 1950.
You mean Dowd is actually a woman ? Sheesh, all this time I thought she was Krugman in drag.
.Sarcasm is dangerous. Avoid it altogether.")
And yet MO has made it her lifework.
M0, don't bother trying to date me, I already own a dog.
This is a LONG read, and I didn't make it all the way to the end.
But I kept waiting for the liberal/radical-feminist counterpunch to the basic theme - that women are becoming more traditional - and surprisingly, it never came!
Congressman Billybob
Yeah. yeah, okay Mo. And I wanted a pony.
LOL. You have summed up Dowd in a zen like fasion.
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