Signifying woman

Caitlin Moran has proposed a 5-year moratorium on ‘people having any opinions about any women, ever.’ Women – feminists in particular – should lead the way in this endeavour.

This partly on the grounds that ‘When a woman makes a hash of it … she’s a cultural signifier’, whereas a man just does it as himself.

If only such a thing were possible. But at least the caravan moves on – we do not any longer, for example, have to respond to invitations to comment upon the extraordinary fact that a woman has been promoted into any job which will actually put her into a position of authority over men as ‘first woman’ this that or the other.

And the moratorium most definitely extends to having no opinion, ever, about the clothes which a woman choose.

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