“Plenty of women saw themselves in Dan Quayle’s description of Murphy as ‘a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid, professional woman,’” wrote Caryn James in 1992 in the New York Times.39 “They were able to think, ‘Murphy Brown, c’est moi,’ until it occurred to them to ask, ‘Where’s Eldin?’” That could be a bumper sticker for our generation: “Where’s Eldin?”
