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Take a backseat to nothing

The wives, in other words, are in total control of the situation, backseat or no backseat.

In this situation, taking a backseat is similar to women sitting behind closed curtains in the old days running family or country affairs. Make no mistake they’re the ones who were in de facto control.

Politics of Chinese characteristics aside, let’s remember that a backseat is, when all is said and done, a backseat. And when you take a backseat, you are less active (fewer meetings to attend, for instance), the position is less significant (though the title on the name card may be longer) and you’re less in the spotlight (after all, it’s shady and dark behind closed curtains).

Here are backseat examples from recent media:

1. U2 has topped the charts with affected guitar riffs and spectacular, hair-raising crescendos for as long as the current student body at MSU has been able to appreciate music. In a month they will give a performance at Spartan Stadium, which raises the question, “What musicians will stand the test of time?”

The majority of music produced in recent years gives testament to an altogether depressing view of the music industry. Today, musicians are forgotten just as quickly as they are manufactured. The youth of America has turned away from the old paradigm of finding a band worth listening to and sticking with them. Rather, the music-imbibing youth find a song with a catchy hook, drink it in gluttonously for two weeks and then drop it for the next pop product full of synthesized soul and contrived talent.