IS A GOLDEN GLOBES PROTEST ENOUGH?
Remember when, in response to women complaining of harassment on trains, suggestions arose of women-only carriages? Remember how angry that made us? ( We had to change, rather than men.) So, when it came to the women of Hollywood protesting sexual harassment by wearing black at last weekend’s Golden Globes, was it empowering – or limiting ? Normally, we’d argue the latter – why should we change our behaviour when really it’s that of others that needs to change? But it disrupted. The conversation, for once, wasn’t about the trends, the jewels, the best and worst dressed, but ‘the why’. The real power, though, will be in keeping it up – BAFTAs, Oscars, you’re up next.…