Dowd & Out

Dowd & Out November 14, 2005

The Sexual Revolution, abetted by the Pill and feminism, brought rage to sex; men and women remained opposites while attracting each other. They learned to overcome hostilities to take advantage of new possibilities. They worked out some of the kinks through rock and roll. Burning bras was both angry gesture and sexy signal. Women felt freer and men felt freer with them. But that had a downside, too.

“Funny thing about a woman’s career — the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster,” muses Margo Channing. “Nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed and there he is. Without that you’re not a woman. You’re something with a French provincial office, or a book full of clippings, but you’re not a woman.”

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