Vanity Fair’s most recent issue which features a cover story with Australian actress Margot Robbie has sparked major outrage over what critics have labelled patronising and sexist quotes.
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Vanity Fair’s contributing editor Rich Cohen wrote the bizarre piece and will likely now be added to a growing list of men drawing attention to female celebrities looks as opposed to their talent.
He also wrote that Australia was like “America 50 years ago”.
Here are just a few of the condescending moments from the interview with the talented star:
“She is 26 and beautiful, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way but in a minor knock-around key, a blue mood, a slow dance. She is blonde but dark at the roots. She is tall but only with the help of certain shoes. She can be sexy and composed even while naked but only in character.
“As I said, she is from Australia. To understand her, you should think about what that means. Australia is America 50 years ago, sunny and slow, a throwback, which is why you go there for throwback people. They still live and die with the plot turns of soap operas in Melbourne and Perth, still dwell in a single mass market in Adelaide and Sydney … An ambitious Australian actor views Hollywood the way the Martians view Earth at the beginning of The War of the Worlds. Which was Robbie.”
There was also this: “A few weeks after that, she was famous. In Australia.”, and this: “Robbie is too fresh to be pegged. Less being than becoming.”, and then this: “I asked Robbie about the sex scenes.”
But do you HAVE to ask her about the sex scenes? No.
And then Cohen describes the actress as: “A kind of lost purity, what we’ve given up for the excitement of a crass, freewheeling, sex-saturated culture … She leads a fairly ordinary life. It’s the luxury of being from the bottom of the world.”
Social media has been flooded with criticism of the author’s work.
Australian actor Josh Lawson blasted Cohen for the “stomach-churning” way he writes about Robbie, while another Twitter user called it “awful”.
You can read the full interview here – enter at your own peril.
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