Especially as we’re still very much in a Me Too world where men are far more likely to be guilty of sexual misconduct while on the job.īombshell (2019) certainly showed which gender of journalist is most likely to use sex as an abuse of power, even if it pulled its punches when it came to depicting the extremely harmful right-wing views of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes’ accusers such as Megyn Kelly (played by Charlize Theron). Most of us are! Promise! But if the only way we are presented is straddling (pun intended) the line between acceptable and sexually inappropriate professional conduct, it reinforces an inaccurate and completely unfair image of women in the media. It would be remiss of me to pretend I didn’t enjoy Swinton and McDormand’s eccentric and precise character work and by no means am I suggesting that female journalists can’t be sexualised beings. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wright’s brilliant James Baldwin-inspired food writer is treated with far more dignity, where his sex life isn’t played for laughs or wrapped up in his profession. There’s also a running joke in Krementz’s story about maintaining “journalistic neutrality”, which wouldn’t be so eye-rolling if the sexualised female journalist trope wasn’t already so well-trodden. And it connects to our story too.” It wasn’t Gallant’s affair, though. “The boy was maybe 14 and the teacher was maybe 30 and it became a kind of cause célèbre sort of thing at the time. “She wrote about May 1968 – and also, by the way, about some famous French incident where a teacher and a student fell in love,” he said. In an interview with Sight & Sound, Anderson told Swinton that he discovered Gallant had written about an illicit affair after he’d already written Krementz’s unprofessional tryst.
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