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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScrewing Your Way To The Top? Good for Lana Del Rey For Helping Kill That Myth
The pop-star Lana Del Rey denied this week that she had slept her way to the top. This was the patient response to an interviewers question about her song, F***ed My Way Up To The Top, in which Lana addresses the sort of wholly idiotic, culturally acceptable trope that occurs whenever a young-ish woman is found being successful at, well, literally anything.
Its a commentary, Lana explained, coming across in print as more affable than Id be during similar dimwitted probing. She wasnt, Lana underlined, saying she DID sleep her way to the top, she was saying she was aware of that general tedious mumbling which drips from peoples mouths whenever a woman has acquired something another man - and often another woman - hasnt.
Yes, women are just as guilty of this. It drips from our gobs so freely when were faced with our own shortcomings. The mythical concept of the all-powerful, bewitching vagina which can give leverage to any pay deal or promotion is so entrenched in earthly society that even women stare at other womens success and mutter, Who did she sleep with to get that? Nobody supposes this about successful men because when mens achievements are focused upon, people are generally wholly reasonab le and logical about the hard work, talent, determination, sacrifice and steely will it requires to rise higher than other humans. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/screwing-your-way-to-the-top-good-for-lana-del-rey-for-helping-kill-that-myth-9624202.html
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Screwing Your Way To The Top? Good for Lana Del Rey For Helping Kill That Myth (Original Post)
big_dog
Jul 2014
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. So what is she saying, then? That she simply likes sex? Women are so strange, aren't they?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
big_dog
(4,144 posts)3. lana also has tongue firmly in cheek, i believe
im starting to like her more and more
zappaman
(20,606 posts)2. In Hollywood, there are plenty of guys who slept their way to the top too.
Some of the names might surprise you.
and we never hear their names