Title : "I’m not sure how great the sexual revolution was... It made us more available, I suppose, for sex... but I don’t know. It also introduced something else..."
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"I’m not sure how great the sexual revolution was... It made us more available, I suppose, for sex... but I don’t know. It also introduced something else..."
"... which felt to me and feels to me now when I look back on it a little bit predatory and certainly, which led I think directly, to the sort of ladette Nineties, where women were supposed to be just like men. Now for me, feminism is not about women becoming more like men. It’s not about that. It’s about finding our space, enlarging our space, and the ways in which we work in the world in order to balance things out."
Said the actress Emma Thompson, quoted in "Emma Thompson: Sexual revolution encouraged predatory behaviour" (London Times).
Had I ever noticed the word "ladette"?
She likes sports, beer, cars, swearing, fighting, and sex in a stereotypically masculine way. She is crude, rude, often hygienically challenged, and cheerfully ignorant and aggressive. If you are a guy, she'll probably challenge you to a fight or a drinking competition, win both and then take an aggressive lead in anything sexual that happens, before kicking you out the front door the following morning or teasing you mercilessly if she lets you stay some more.
In short, she is a young woman with the personality of a Fratbro. She is the Lad-ette.
Despite (or perhaps because of) their masculine personalities, Lad-ettes are generally heavily sexualised and are not likely to let any males in the company forget they are female. They usually disdain the hassle of highly elaborately feminine clothing/hair/makeup, but don't often dress in a truly cross-dressing way; Tank-Top Tomboy is a common Lad-ette style....
And here's a Vice article from 2017 — "The Rise and Fall of the Ladette/How women taking their clothes off and getting shitfaced were celebrated and shunned in the space of just a few years."
A late-1990s and early-2000s phenomenon, it was an era in which women ruled supreme. A boisterous, bolshy, boozy free-for-all where you could get away with saying or doing pretty much anything... [T]he ladette was mouthy, up for a laugh, took her clothes off and could out-do any male companion in the drinking stakes....
"The 'ladette' liberated young women from the confines of a very conservative form of femininity because they could behave just like men," explains Professor Angela Smith of Sunderland University....
Nearly two decades later, ladettism eventually burnt itself out.... Post-2000, gender roles are much less likely to be set in stone. We perhaps therefore don't feel the need to define those who "act like men" as ladettes because, as Smith points out, "it's arguable there is a greater acceptance of different gender roles. It's much more acceptable to behave in a diverse way."
That was 2017, remember. In 2022, gender roles have made something of a comeback.
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