Saturday, 12 March 2016

Accidental essay research

I recently started re-reading 'How To Be A Woman' by Caitlin Moran, as an attempt to start reading more again instead of watching TV before I go to sleep. As well as really loving the book, I realised that Moran actually makes a few points that I could incorporate into my essay:



The point she makes in this chapter elaborates on a point already in my essay made by Wolf - how hardcore porn is now competition for the ad market, and therefore adverts need to be more shocking than porn in order to entice viewers (??? - madness) and keep the customers interested.

She also makes some good points about strip clubs and how they let both genders down, which I think might be going off in too much of a tangent to the focus of my essay, but interesting nonetheless. 

Definitely a great read.

Although Moran is not an academic scholar, she is still a woman who is able identify sexism and misogyny in the Western world, and a journalist who basically gets pain to notice and analyse and question things. - may put a similar analysis in my essay (but worded better!).

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