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Even though Cosmo expends a helluva lot of energy decoding the mysteries of the male-female dynamic, these days even we've been stumped at times. It seems that gender roles are totally muddled. While some women have become super-aggressive in their pursuit of both love and sex, many guys have gotten downright passive. Things are so out of whack that even the word date is difficult to define. Is it dinner and a movie, hanging out, or just hooking up? And who pays?
This baffling behavior is so pervasive that Maureen Dowd, one of the country's foremost thinkers and a Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist for The New York Times, felt the need to address it--thus, her latest book, Are Men Necessary? (Before you work yourself into a tizzy, she tells us the answer is yes. Phew!) "Now more than ever, men and women are confused about their roles when it comes to dating and love," states Dowd. The result? Each sex ...