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Geoffrey Mak, author of Mean Boys, explains our new age of cruelty led by personalities as wide-ranging as Donald Trump and Elliot Rodger and how we can pivot to power that encourages generosity.
Two recent dramas that pivot on the fraught convergence of consent, power, and desire have turned these tropes on their heads by inverting the gender of the potentially abusive adults. Todd Field’s Tár (2022) and Todd Haynes’s May December (2023) both center on complex adult female characters who fall for young paramours. In Tár, Cate Blanchett plays a world-renowned composer-conductor whose affairs with younger female musicians end up undermining her career. In May December, Julianne Moore plays Gracie, an aging belle once sent to prison for having an illicit sexual affair with a Korean American seventh grader, Joe, whom she later married. Made during, and directly responding to the provocations of, the #MeToo era, both films question whether the ethics and politics of intergenerational desire change when the gender, sexuality, and/or race of the players depart from the standard pattern.
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I recently witnessed the birth of one of my relative’s daughter. The entire event was bathed in a spiritual halo. The relative’s tormented screams – likened by a person to an animalistic agony – were supposedly neutralized by the prayer which she was loudly reciting. When the baby finally came out, everyone was thankful to