battle of the sexes

noun phrase

: a struggle for power between women and men
The comedy is a classic treatment of the battle of the sexes.

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Another top line here in Pennsylvania, the battle of the sexes. CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024 Anchorman trades the ratings-battle storyline of similar films for a battle of the sexes, pitting an infantile boys’ club against a new hire navigating their sexism with the seasoned poise of someone who’s done this all before. Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024 The put-upon journalist also finds some time to torment the new fiancée (Reid Scott) of his former flame (Michelle Williams), using his parasitic alter ego to one-up the battle of the sexes. Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2024 As tensions rise, Ron and Veronica's brutal knock-down fight in the middle of the newsroom is the perfect comic expression of the battle of the sexes. Danny Horn, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2024 In the musical, a new ending imagines Dawn and Brad as mythological figures — gods, really — storming across a fantastic, scarlet-colored hellscape where pillars of honest-to-God fire illuminate their literal battle of the sexes. Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024 Jolie and Pitt played married assassin-spies pitted against one another, but screenwriter Simon Kinberg mostly mined this premise for stale jokes about suburban boredom, leading to a battle of the sexes based on gendered stereotypes. Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024 Even if this skew is roughly matched by male swings rightward, the degeneration of our democracy and our discourse into a battle of the sexes can’t be a positive development. Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 What Season 4 was to racial prejudice, Season 5 is to the battle of the sexes. Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023

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