Best-selling author and hit podcaster Caroline O’Donoghue finds that a remarkable number of Australian women have turned their backs on the pop-culture cringe.
isn’t his favourite movie any more, but nothing in the cultural landscape seeks to tell him that it is a bad movie.will still chart high in any “Best Movies of all Time” list produced by any respectable film institution. And he’s still an Arsenal fan.
Part of it is rudimentary feminism: we live in a world led by men but also a world that is deeply insecure about what makes a man. With fewer and fewer ways to prove your masculinity in everyday life, we’ve created a pop culture landscape that glorifies male effort and sets itself in opposition to female frippery.
She explained to me that a lot of young Australians were in an enormous moment of self-analysis, of questioning who they were and how they interacted with the complicated country they found themselves in. This interested me, and it went some way towards explaining why I had so many detailed messages from millennial women in Australian cities. They sent long emails about how their lives and minds were changing – whether it was through motherhood , through friendship or through romance .
A third colleague points out that Australian mainstream media is historically rather conservative, and that the counterculture that has risen to meet it has acquired a huge amount of power. Michelle Andrews, co-founder of Shameless Media – an entertainment platform that, like Sentimental Garbage, emphasises the importance of pop culture that might elsewhere be dismissed – agrees with this.
But sometimes one country, in all its histories, anxieties and grievances, can accidentally become a condensed version of a more global feeling. This, I think, is one of the reasons that so many Irish women are at the forefront of popular culture.
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