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Hey Kate, how often do you beat your husband?

The trend to make female movie characters tough and abrasive has been proceeding for some time. We can all predict that the new partner in the police procedural, let’s say a petite black woman whose entrance surprises (and thus reveals the bigotry of) the white man she’ll be working with, will turn out to be …

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1959: Malvina Reynolds sings an awful song that wouldn’t be out of place in today’s misandric world

Lyrics: It says in Coronet Magazine June nineteen-fifty six, page ten That married women are not as happy As women who have no men Married women are cranky Frustrated and disgusted While single women are bright and gay Creative and well adjusted We don’t need the men We don’t need the men We don’t need …

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