to edder a hedge

From that point on, Dallas was never the same. It hit its peak. It lost credibility. It jumped the shark.

The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

Thus, for example, in the 1990s, the mythopoetic strand of the American men's movement drew on ancient myths in order to argue for a natural, pre-ordained gender order, in spite of the fact that these myths derived from a patriarchal, feudal past whose genderscape was no more natural than the present one.