Word: misogynist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centerpiece of side one is, of course, the title track 'Some Girls.' Sugar Blue's magnificent harp gives way to Jagger's ironic and at times obscene catalogue of women. His stance is that of a complete misogynist defending his case. In an interview with Jonathan Cott in Rolling Stone, Jagger insisted that "Some Girls" is a joke and not a statement of anti-feminism. It's hard to read anything else but anti-feminism into a line like, "some girls take the shirt off my back and leave me with a lethal dose," but it's also hard...
Even fashion pictures of strong women seem designed to play on the fears of misogynist men. A Von Wangenheim photo in the current Vogue has a vagina dentata theme: a vicious dog faces the camera, with bared teeth directly in front of a woman's crotch. Doesn't the picture seem to say that women are sexual killers? "Well," rationalizes Von Wangenheim, "it works better that...
...remain pleasant and feminine while performing roles until now reserved for men, the show offers very little to please a woman whose consciousness has been raised even a degree or two by the movement. Says Journalist Judith Coburn, a feminist: "Charlie 's Angels is one of the most misogynist shows the networks have produced recently. Supposedly about 'strong' women, it perpetuates the myth most damaging to women's struggle to gain professional equality: that women always use sex to get what they want, even on the job." She thinks the program is "a version...
...female misogynist masquerading as a political crusader," complains London Critic Alexander Walker, unfurling a battle flag that attracts many allies in America. Feminist Author Ellen Willis complains about the "perverse symbolism" in last year's Swept Away, claiming Wertmuller "panders to two classic male-supremacist lies: that women dominate men, and that women are parasites while men do all the work." Such arguments do not go down well with the director. "Men ought to picket my films in protest," she suggests. "Think of how they are portrayed in my films: all vain, arrogant and stupid, real chauvinists who believe...
...getting down to work, she stopped by to see a Manhattan screening of Warren's latest film, Shampoo, a comedy about a hairdresser's sex life. In it he claims "to challenge the assumption that a hypersexual character -a Don Juan-is acting out of anger or misogynist feelings or latent homosexuality." Despite Warren's machismo and Shirley's feminism, the two exchanged a warm kiss while one member of the audience pronounced herself sold on Warren's philosophy. Said Actress Sylvia Miles: "I've been going to the wrong hairdresser...