Judging from a couple of comments, some people seemed to think I was claiming that people like Dowd are somehow representative of their generations. I wasn't. I just was trying to say that their own special form of gender issue weirdness seems very alien to me and I was wondering if it was something specific to a particular generation. I don't mean all people of that generation are like that, just that their very special worldview seems to be of, though not representative of, a different time.
And, to restate, there's obviously plenty of messed up gender stuff from younger people as well, it's just different.
