Women as collective celebrity

Women are all over the place these days. You can’t get away from them — not that you’d want to, of course. They are undoubtedly the collective celebrity of the 21st century. Why so?

While I was mulling over the fact that our new, very expensive shopping mall is devoted entirely to disposable women’s clothes, I came across a piece by Daily Mail journalist Peter McKay in yesterday’s paper. He too is obviously feeling the pincer attack of the women’s movement :”… most of the popular culture which makes us feel ill seems either to be made by women or for them …

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