The girls don't know film history
While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet
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Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.
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Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert
“how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves”
1990s new decade of sexual liberation- where looking was sanctioned as it was so much safer than touching (aids epidemic influence on culture, music etc).
But act of looking requires object & that object was women
Riot girl v spice girls (woman making their