[lbo-talk] Faludi on competing gender gaps

Shane Taylor s-t-t at juno.com
Fri Oct 10 20:37:50 PDT 2003


Michael Pollak fwd'd:
> Conan the Vulgarian
> Susan Faludi


>    Given that Schwarzenegger owes his fame to Hollywood,
> maybe it's only fitting to find the answer on the silver
> screen, in Neil LaBute's acute dissection of American
> gender pathologies, "In the Company of Men." The 1997
> movie told the story of Chad, the gotta-be-on-top corporate
> striver, and the pact he coercively forges with his more
> sensitive and flabby co-worker, Howard, to compete for
> the honors of seducing and then humiliating a deaf woman.

An excellent movie, as is her reading of it -- despite the obvious, um, exceptions to the Clinton metaphor of Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey.

-- Shane

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