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Fall TV’s Men Would Hate Fall TV’s Women

Upcoming shows are full of sad-sack men who are upset about powerful women.

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Despite a sudden drop in female television writers this season, the fall shows are full of strong women characters played by names like Kat Dennings, Zooey Deschanel, and Whitney Cummings. But they’re also full of a particular type of man: the sad-sack, depressed victim of the “mancession” who, Willa Paskin writes, is not very happy about all the powerful girls. Shows featuring male characters are “predicated on the idea that once, no so long ago, there was a code, a way to be a man that everyone understood, and now that code is gone, leaving Y chromosomes isolated and flailing in a tech-savvy world dominated by women.”

Read it at New York Magazine

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