Film Review – The Proposal

29 October, 2009 in America, beauty, entertainment, family values, feminism, marriage, movies, propaganda, U.S., values, women
Tags: class, femininity, feminism, gender, marriage, movies, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, sex, shooting fish, stereotypes, USA, women

Posted by Irresponsibility Catching the 5AM flight from Amsterdam to Ibiza is painful enough without the inflight film being a Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds rom-com. In ‘The Proposal’ Sandra plays a hard-nosed publisher, who happens to be Canadian and facing deportation, who bullies her assistant, Ryan, into marrying her. An opportunity, you might think, to bust [...]

‘Crazy’ Courtney Love – Why Women can’t be Rock Stars, Pt 2

16 October, 2009 in America, beauty, celebrities, entertainment, equality, family values, fashion, feminism, freedom, hysteric, journalism, kurt cobain, marriage, parenting, Q, rock stars, sex, values, Virginia Woolf, women
Tags: britney, feminism, freedom, journalism, media, mothers, music, Q, rock stars, thoughts, unclear on the concept, women, writing

Posted by Irresponsibility Just over seven years ago Courtney Love appeared naked on the cover of Q200. It has taken me that long to understand and articulate my shame at my part in the proceedings. It was a minor role. I fielded her hoarse, furious phone calls, possibly signalling my boss, then-editor Danny Eccleston, across [...]

The Feminisation of Higher Education?

2 October, 2009 in America, children, education, equality, feminism, gender gap, media, schools, U.S., women
Tags: America, education, femininity, feminism, media, news, sexism, unclear on the concept, universities, University of Pennsylvania, women

Posted by Irresponsibility “Higher education is becoming feminised,” a dinner companion said last week. A professor of sociology, he was discussing the preponderance of women students in his courses and his remark was, presumably, meant as a neutral statement of fact. But to at least two of the women at the table it didn’t sound [...]