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As much as it considers the past, 20th Century Women's profound confidence in women's strength and ingenuity proposes a way to look forward.

                                      
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As much as it considers the past, 20th Century Women's profound confidence in women's strength and ingenuity proposes a way to look forward.

Who will watch the Watchmen? Not their creator, Alan Moore. And while he seems to be alone in his condemnation with the latest adaptation of his work, Moore's steadfast position deserves some real attention.

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Trust the Man is definitely enjoyable: as one of the guiltiest of pleasures that you only watch at home during the cold, dark winter, with the curtains drawn, alone and in shame with a whole bag of potato chips.

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Trust the Man is primarily focused on women trusting men, because the men find it nearly impossible to trust each other.

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... challenges the national ideologies, nostalgia and idealization that have become so commonplace in popular cultural imaginings of the 'great war'.

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