Being socialised as a woman in this society is extremely difficult. You spend your entire life essentially learning that no matter what you do, you can’t win. You’re either too meek or too aggressive, too big or too small, too loud or too quiet, not driven enough or too focused on work, shrewish or too […]
Tag: Girls
Girls and Friends: Pop Culture Unicorns
Genuine friendships between girls are radically underrepresented in pop culture. Only a handful of such relationships are depicted, which means that when they are, they really tend to stand out, and they seem almost freakish at times, because they defy everything people think they know about women and girls and how they relate to each […]
Such A Mixed-Up Hipster Dream World: Girls, Apartment 23, and Fast Young Things
Not one but two shows revolving around the lives of young women living in apartments in New York City debuted this midseason; Girls and Apartment 23. I found myself deeply underwhelmed by Girls, a show which has already attracted a lot of interesting critical commentary, and found Apartment 23 to be fun, if not, perhaps, […]