Tina comments on the plenitude of political sexual scandal (notable exception: the president):
I have a theory that men are losing altitude at tremendous speed, and that they are so insecure that they are acting out with sexual antics all the time.
Amanda Marcotte uncovers it in the fall TV line-up:
When you list out the great shows that make up this television renaissance, certain commonalities emerge: high production values, a greater investment in acting talent, and complex plotting that assumes an audience that never misses an episode. But with the sole exception of True Blood—which has camp enough to put it into a genre of its own—all these shows share something else. Every other non-vampire show centers around a modern man struggling with the limitations of his outlook in a world full of complexity and changes that prevent survival through simple reliance on old gender norms. If you want to make a critically acclaimed drama, you need to build up a patriarch, preferably in a highly masculine environment, and then start to peel away his certainty about the way the world works and what it means to be a man in this world.
Or watch with morbid fascination the role of men in Mad Men or Pan Am.
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