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Sydney Sweeney is ragebaiting women (opens the original)
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While dissecting Sydney Sweeney’s latest nude controversy within my favourite WhatsApp Group (perfectly named Sassy Hags) a friend argued that Sydney might be satirising the male gaze.It was a generous reading of the star’s highly sexualised advert for sports gambling company Novig, which has been accused of undermining women in sport, but then again, who the hell knows? The strange thing about engaging with anything Sweeney does is that we have no scaffolding: we don’t actually know what she be
How do you assign a star rating to Ariana Grande? (opens the original)
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That’s the question I wrestled with much of yesterday, having been sent by a newspaper to review the singer’s first of 10 arena shows in London, which, she announced last week, would be her final public appearance in a while. She is taking a “step back from visibility” amid “ongoing public scrutiny”, even cancelling her upcoming West End musical with Jonathan Bailey.Like most women, but also, as a woman in the media and with a pop culture podcast with an audience that is majority female, I have
Steven Bartlett is playing the long game (opens the original)
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