A woman in the public eye will be judged by an ever-changing standard: too strident, too provocative, too predatory, too thin, too fat, too muscly and very soon too old. The only dignified answer? Smash the patriarchy, writes Zoe Williams
A woman in the public eye will be judged by an ever-changing standard: too strident, too provocative, too predatory, too thin, too fat, too muscly and very soon too old.
If I were Madge, that would be the kernel of my celebration, an entire career lived as the lightning rod of the conundrum of female sexuality.
Vine’s harshest take on the performance came when Madonna performed Erotica, recreating the notorious masturbation scene, surrounded by boxers and with an alter ego dressed as her younger self. “I think we can all agree,” Vine concluded, that this “takes onanistic self-indulgence to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the “What’s a woman supposed to look like?” spectrum, Pamela Anderson has kicked off a debate about ageing gracefully by going out and about without makeup.called it an act of “courage and rebellion”, which is, OK, true, but also weird: it is objectively peculiar that a woman of 56 would be expected to camouflage in a predetermined way , and not to do that would be considered throwing down a gauntlet.
In the mid-90s, there was an interview between the magazine Blikk and Madonna that had been translated from English into Hungarian and back into English, except – in a very early example of the internet not being completely reliable – it actually wasn’t that, it was a parody by the cartoonist Garry Trudeau . Blikk’s spoof question was: “Madonna, let’s cut to toward the hunt.
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