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It's really great to be female in the year 2007, because we dominate the Interweb. Dominate! Several hours of web research reveals that women really, really like writing about how crazy it is to be a woman in, well, a woman's world. According to Rebecca Traister, this season's network TV fall line-up reflects a newfound collective social angst about women not only competing with men as equals in the workplace, but actually kicking their asses such that men have become useless, whiny, servile wrecks. Or, you know, the new women. The article is a mildly disturbing insight into the lemming-like mentality of TV execs--how else to explain that there are at least ELEVEN new shows centered around the theme of emasculation? Who on earth wants to watch this?? (Though the new Farrelly Brothers show, which features a grossly stereotyped Indian doctor and a very troubling incident involving a monkey, sounds promising.)

Meanwhile, (awesome) ex-Washingtonienne Jessica Cutler gives a self-deprecating interview that begs the question: Do strippers and prostitutes understand men better than the rest of us?

And, in honor of the Sex and the City movie which entered its first day of totally pointless production today somewhere up on 5th Avenue, here's Samantha Bee not helping but wondering: Is America ready for a female president?