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How Crazy Became All the Rage on TV

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Television’s new female archetype is single-minded but manic, and the leader of the pack is Homeland’s Claire Danes. Elizabeth Wurtzel on why that’s a problem.

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Crazy is the new bitchy. At least that is the case when it comes to women in popular culture.

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Career women used to be angry. They ate Swanson dinners at the kitchen counter and drank Chardonnay alone, then fired everybody the next day.

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