 Brian, meanwhile, ends up helping a group of young women (he is attracted in particular to one, the beautiful young student Jenny) who want to protest the sexist attitudes of Professor Dibble, a highly conservative colleague in Brian's department.Brian ends up futilely attempting to support both sides in this battle, to his own discomfiture.In the war between men and women, as in other wars, when the two sides are extremely polarized, there can be no middle ground
though there are contradictions on both sides.