Its not just cos Rachie’s in Berlin that I’m currently fond of German words. There’s a reason. Always a fucking reason.

The President’s club (agaiaiain???) ‘incident’ of 2018, wouldn’t have been an incident in 1918, or 1968 or probably in 1999. But its a different world now. Generally for the better but as always, the reaction to changing standards is always to go a little beyond where the end-point will probably be. So as you brush the hand of the check-out girl at Tescos whilst taking your change, right now she’s crying ‘RAPE!!!!!’ and ordering her ‘me too’ t-shirt, but within a few months a new status quo will arrive. Not as loud as the last one and not quite as hypersensitive to perceived infringement. That’s where the term ‘cut me some slack’ comes in.

Its all about zeitgeist. Which in fact is now about ‘cleaning out the closet’ of crimes past. In the movie industry, thanks to Harvey W. and Kevin S. And in the modelling world, the workplace generally, and all going back as far as you like. Unless ‘underage’ is involved in which case add another several decades.

Because we’re now not only in the post-groping phase of enlightenment, we’re in the post-feminist era and also one of seemingly increasing gender ambiguity. Or gender non-specificity. You’re not allowed to gen(d)eralise, you can’t assume someone’s a ‘girl’ just because they have long blond hair, massive tits and is wearing a flouncy pink off-the-shoulder number with 9-inch heels. What would you be thinking??? Its just a ‘person of as-yet unspecified bits and desires’.

So how long can the Oscars continue with its totally unzeitgeisty and horrifically binary ‘best actor’ and ‘best actress’ dinosaurism? Its as bad as sexual abuse to some kind of trans… thingumy. They need to have ‘best person doing some acting in the role of a gender unspecified nature with nothing at all manly or womanly implied or stated’. Jay Leto would definitely have won that for the Dallas Buyers Club. Or they could have ‘best thing in a movie’. Or even ‘best thing (born with a nob)’ and best thing (born without). Ok, it obviously needs more thought. But it just can’t go on or I’ll have to boycott the whole thing. Sometimes you have to take a stand. And sometimes you’re better off just going inside to watch the football.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx