Director Steven Soderbergh believes he has presented a female perspective, but all he’s done is shoot men in the same dehumanising way that has historically fetishised women
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We are told that Magic Mike’s show is a “zombie apocalypse of repressed desire”, yet we don’t hear from the “zombies” themselves.
It is normal for girls and women to masturbate, and there are even health benefits.
Australian women were once largely seen as reproducers, rather than lovers: sexual pleasure was suspect. Attitudes have changed, yet our culture is still troubled by female desire.
The paintings in Del Kathryn Barton’s new show at NGV Australia are visually stunning and painstakingly executed. But the women depicted are often de-personalised objects or headless cauldrons of destructive passion.
Two plays about the way men and women talk about each other with their own are both illuminating and disappointing
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