{"id":1340820,"date":"2022-02-25T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1340820"},"modified":"2022-02-25T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:56:42","slug":"the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-is-missing-its-opportunity-to-reconsider-the-second-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-marvelous-mrs-maisel-is-missing-its-opportunity-to-reconsider-the-second-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u2019 Is Missing Its Opportunity To Reconsider The Second Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-marvelous-mrs-maisel-is-missing-its-opportunity-to-reconsider-the-second-wave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1340820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>\u201dThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d is back, consistent as ever, gorgeous and immersive, clever and provocative. The show looks and feels as fresh as its first season, which hardly doubles as a critique given how great it was right out of the gate. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaisel\u201d last aired on Dec. 6, 2019. It was, for me, the final binge before The Great Binge. As Midge moved into the \u201960s, America moved into the \u201920s. As Midge moved into the sexual revolution, America started questioning it. Watching \u201cMaisel\u201d now feels oddly discordant, like being asked to celebrate the take-off of a plane you know is going to crash.  <\/p>\n<p>Two episodes in, my one enduring complaint about \u201cMaisel\u201d stands: the snappy dialogue often veers into an insufferable, Sorkin-style rhythm. This season, that rhythm is complemented by another insufferable hallmark of Sorkin\u2019s work \u2014 pretentious hero babble. \u201cMaisel\u201d always had some of that, to be sure, and it\u2019s not nearly on the level of \u201dThe Newsroom\u201d or \u201dStudio 60.\u201d But it\u2019s a flaw.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel are leaning further into this bad habit just as the show is leaning further into second-wave feminism. Midge\u2019s arc from housewife to housewife-slash-comic is always what gave the show an edge. Its heroine loves motherhood, fashion, and homemaking. She\u2019s not merely another female comedian eschewing traditionalism for a life of debauchery. She wants to have it all.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading Helen Roy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/girlboss-interrupted\/\">reflections<\/a> on \u201dGirl, Interrupted\u201d this week when I realized they mirrored the problems with \u201cMaisel.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat remains true and captivating across time is the underlying theme of the general story and of its individual characters: that participation in the then-emerging midcentury ideals of careerism and sexual licentiousness drives women crazy,\u201d wrote Roy. She continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Women today can relate because in real life, these two forces remain crazy-making fixtures of modern society. The difference now is that these once basically distinct vanguard female archetypes of the midcentury (woman free to work on one hand, and woman free to fornicate on the other) at some point fused into one. Now, the pressure for women to become caricatures of a certain brand of masculine ambition and sexuality, is no longer an either\/or proposition, and hasn\u2019t been for a while[.]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maisel cheerfully makes the case for this fusion as though the case is closed, and just as it\u2019s been reopened. Roy argues \u201ccoronavirus killed the girlboss,\u201d noting that younger millennial women were stripped of offices and bars while older millennial women dropped out of the workforce. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of October of 2021, three million women had left their jobs for \u2018pandemic-related reasons,\u2019\u201d she noted. \u201cPut simply, working from home while also having kids home from school highlighted the tension between domestic and professional responsibility that would have once been relieved through outsourcing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s preferences have been clear for years, assuming you find biology to be a more credible explanation than \u201dinternalized misogyny.\u201d Christina Hoff Sommers has written about this for decades. \u201cIn a 2013 poll, Pew asked American mothers about their \u2018ideal\u2019 working arrangement,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/opinion\/columns\/article_a1b31d9b-6631-5d9b-91e9-445d957b4f46.html\">once noted<\/a>. \u201cSixty-one percent said they would prefer to work part-time or not at all. Catherine Hakim, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, found similar preferences among Western European women.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sommers went on to quote a particularly apt Tina Brown line: \u201cThere are more tired wives who want to be Melania sitting by the pool . . . than there are women who want to pursue a PhD in earnest self-improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are surveys of Western women decades into the experiment Midge is proudly running as \u201cMaisel\u201d progresses. And then there\u2019s the coarsening. Midge is clearly meant to be among the pioneers forging a grand tradition of American stand-up. She befriends Lenny Bruce. Her story is borrowed at least in part from Joan Rivers. What made comedians of that time great were the boundaries they tested. <\/p>\n<p>Camille Paglia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-news\/camille-paglia-takes-millennials-strangely-unsexy-instagram-posts-1148415\/\">penned<\/a> a blistering critique of Instagram in 2018, reflecting on much of the changes congealing in \u201cMaisel\u2019s\u201d fourth season. \u201dThe sexual revolution sought and won by my 1960s generation envisioned women as responsible, mature free agents, equal to men,\u201d said Paglia. \u201cWe certainly did not foresee that \u2018booty pics,\u2019 reducing women to their buttocks like Stone Age fertility totems, would become a wildly addictive genre of Instagram self-portraiture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically,\u201d she later added, \u201dsexed-up online exhibitionism has escalated as Hollywood movies have steadily lost their once world-famous genius for portraying romantic passion\u2026 a movie ostensibly about sex, like the first installment of\u00a0<em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>\u00a0(2015), was a lifeless and clinically antiseptic bore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paglia argues that content codes enforced until roughly the 1960s resulted in sexier art. The contemporary comedians in Bruce\u2019s league are the ones challenging new content codes instituted by Silicon Valley and Hollywood\u2019s new moral puritans. They\u2019re the women embracing the mysteries of femininity instead of joyless nudity and androgyny.<\/p>\n<p>Paglia\u2019s admitted lack of foresight is admirable and heterodox precisely because Amazon-backed writers like Sherman-Palladino remain blind to the emergent consequences of modern liberalism. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been to a Justin Bieber concert, but I\u2019ve yet to witness a frenzy quite like the one that consumed my poetry professors when Erica Jong came to campus, raspy and blonde, aged and sultry. \u201cFear of Flying\u201d was so personal to them. They spoke of it reverently and treated her like a queen. These women were artists, some of them celebrated. What electrified them in the \u201860s and \u201970s was change. But when the radical became the status quo, and the glow of newness faded, the women who came later were left to pick up the pieces. <\/p>\n<p>This is becoming clear, even to the left. BuzzFeed, of all places, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/30\/sex-lives-of-college-girls-is-trite-fourth-wave-fulfillment-porn\/\">probed<\/a> Gen Z\u2019s mounting dissatisfaction with the normalized culture of \u201csex positivity\u201d in a poignant investigation last year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like we were tricked into exploiting ourselves [and] tricked into thinking it was our idea,\u201d one girl explained. <\/p>\n<p>Abigail Shrier has done yeoman\u2019s work documenting the pains of young women baited by a normalized culture of leftist gender norms into causing \u201dirreversible damage\u201d to their own bodies. In recent months, \u201cSex and the City\u201d author Candace Bushnell and New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg have started <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/30\/sex-lives-of-college-girls-is-trite-fourth-wave-fulfillment-porn\/\">grappling<\/a> with the consequences of the sexual revolution without daring to question their roots. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true, we shouldn\u2019t throw the baby of legal equality and genuine progress out with the bathwater of loneliness and pornography and all the painful manifestations of modern misery. But we shouldn\u2019t pretend it\u2019s clean either. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s one more season to come of \u201cMarvelous Mrs. Maisel.\u201d If she embraces the benefit of hindsight, Sherman-Palladino could make it even better.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Emily Jashinsky is culture editor at The Federalist. She previously covered politics as a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the Examiner, Emily was the spokeswoman for Young America\u2019s Foundation. She\u2019s interviewed leading politicians and entertainers and appeared regularly as a guest on major television news programs, including \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d \u201cMedia Buzz,\u201d and \u201cThe McLaughlin Group.\u201d Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Real Clear Politics, and more. Emily also serves as director of the National Journalism Center and a visiting fellow at Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. Originally from Wisconsin, she is a graduate of George Washington University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201dThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d is back, consistent as ever, gorgeous and immersive, clever and provocative. 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