  The generic supersymmetric standard model is a model built from a
supersymmetrized standard model field spectrum the gauge symmetries only. The
popular minimal supersymmetric standard model differs from the generic version
in having R-parity imposed by hand. We review an efficient formulation of the
model and some of the recently obtained interesting phenomenological features.
The latter includes R-parity violating contributions to scalar masses that had
been largely overlooked and the related contributions to fermion electric
dipole moments and $\mu \to e \gamma$.
