I love women. Always have.
Not just the way they look and feel, but the very fact that they’re simply different. If they didn’t exist I’d have to invent one. Or at least buy a blow-up one. But the differences are way beyond the physical, way beyond anything that could be represented in mere vinyl. They’re different psychologically, physiologically, hormonally, temperamentally and logically. Or illogically sometimes.
Natalie Portman is a wonderful woman. Actress. And mother. Or mutha. Whatever.
And she reckons that Hollywood has it all wrong when it tries to depict ‘strong women’ in ‘feminist movies’. Because they’re stuck in that ‘Lara Croft’ mode in which a ‘strong woman’ is one who can kick the shit out of 10 armed men without smudging her mascara. A woman who is stunning, pneumatic, brilliant, beautiful, courageous, dangerous but never bigger than a size 12.
Is that ‘a feminist’? Is feminism about the ability to beat the shit out of men? Odd, I thought it was about living in peaceful, harmonious equality.
Man and his main bitch in glorious egalitarianism. Which is a suburb of Watford.