Posts Tagged ‘sexism’
Posted by Irresponsibility Among the top Google Books results for “Britney Spears” is something called The Pleasures of Woman: Poems, Sensations, Songs and Stories about the Supernatural Dimensions of Woman. by a psychopath called Scott Ferguson German, PhD [sic]. The Britney connection? A one-page blank verse essay titled ‘Britney Spears Causes Terrorism’. Incredibly, the claim [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility It feels weird to be this enthusiastic about Americans but I have to say, to the parents of 16-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland, well played! Contrary to the over-protective, blame-culture tendencies of their nation in general and state in particular, the Californian couple have shown themselves to be parents of a rare and [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility So, Guardian interview with Melissa Auf der Maur, the truly incredible (and needless to say totally underrated, under-appreciated and under-publicised) ex-Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist turned rock solo artist. The headline? “Melissa Auf der Maur: ‘I hope Courtney Love finds happiness’”. Make me want to holler. First, because it wrongly suggests that [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The press has been devoted to proverbially kicking Angelina in her perfect white teeth almost from the moment she hooked up with perennial pretty boy Brad. Not out of any personal animosity, I assumed, but because it made a nice script. Hapless ‘can’t-hold-a-man’ Aniston with her tame blonde hair and tight smile [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility I have seen my share of ghastly television, but for sheer can’t-prise-my-peering-eyes-from-the-telly-nor-stifle-my-howls-of-anguish VH1’s alleged dating show Tough Love takes the chocolate chip biscuit. “Alleged” because Tough Love is to ordinary dating shows what H-bombs are to BB guns. The premise is Master Matchmaker® Steven Ward, with a little help from Matchmaker Mom [...]
Posted by Irresponsibilty Expert Dutch sailor Laura Dekker has been forcibly and unjustly detained in Venezuela, and is being transported back to the Netherlands to be questioned by police. Her crime? Being a 14-year-old girl with a burning ambition to sail around the world. When teenage boys express a desire to sail around the world [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Generic ex-American Idoler Adam Lambert is — oooh! Shock! Horror! — g-a-y. And when he performed at the American Music Awards he (Shock! Horror!) kissed a man as part of his routine. Homophobia is easily America’s favourite phobia, which is depressing but predictable. It far more irritating when prudish newspaper columnists gussy [...]
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 [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Another red-letter day for women as a panel of Dutch judges imprison a 13-year-old girl and order her to undergo psychological analysis for having the gall to want to sail around the world singlehanded. Born at sea, Laura Dekker lived on a boat till she was four and has sailed solo across [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Clint Eastwood’s musclecar hymn to all-American masculinity, Gran Torino, upset me so much, initially, I couldn’t write about it. The problem isn’t that I hate the film. Quite the contrary. I like it. Or did until the point where the only viable female character, Sue Lor (Ahney Her) in the film is [...]
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