Carina Chocano is the essay writer I wish I was. She
examines how pop culture treats women and girls- and how it affects us. From
Katherine Hepburn and how her image had to be toned down for people to accept
her movies; ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ and ‘Bewitched’ (how two insanely powerful women
constantly deferred to men); to the huge Disney princess phenomena wherein a
princess is someone to be saved by a man or presented to a man. ‘Desperate Housewives’, ‘Real Housewives’, ‘Desperately
Seeking Susan’, ‘Flashdance’, the misogyny in ‘Can This Marriage Be Saved’- in
a women’s magazine, no less, ‘Thelma and Louise’, ‘Pretty Woman’, Disney, ‘Mad
Men’ and a lot more all come under her feminist microscope. And while you can
tell she’s very frustrated by the way the media presents women, she is always
entertaining and easy to read. I’d love to read what she thinks about ‘Wonder
Woman’ and the new Dr. Who! Five stars out of five.
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Sounds entertaining
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