Liz Phair has entered a new phase in her life with this release. Earlier on, she was the sexually-liberated young woman, showing every girl that what's good for the gander is good for the goose, and more so. The optimistic among her audience hoped that as she grew older, she'd grow wiser and satisfied, abandoning the impulse to sow oats just as wild as her male counterparts.Unfortunately, she is now giving lie to the myth of female sexual liberation. Certainly, this is unintentional on her part - she'll realize it far too late. But for those of us on the outside, we now see very clearly what comes of all this - not a confident, strong, independent woman, but a grovelling, used-up (...). Much luck to Little Digger, the unfortunate first in a long line of children to wonder who is using their mother - he'll need it. One might be inclined to offer luck to Phair as well, but she wouldn't know what to do with it if she got it; she's still championing the life on the back, spread eagle.