“Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the down-market celebrity interview, she knew all the Hollywood codes, and followed the deep backgrounds.” HelpingEyeGirlPovertyWorryTaughtSorrowHollywoodBackgroundsCodeInterviewsBritainRaysScandalBlairSubtext Author:Peter York
“My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.” KindGirlStrongMoralTroubleVery GoodCodeMatureVery StrongMumGood GirlMoral Code Author:Gloria Estefan
“I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.” WantYearsMeanStillsWantedGirlSexWomenNiceGenerationsFeminismStuckCodeThirtyRebelSixtyBourgeoisMy GenerationThirty YearsTotemsTrampsNice GirlVamp Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team.” MenMindPlayGuyGirlAttitudeBoysTeamAll TimeSymbolsDefinedCodeUniformsMasculinityMasculineVaryOther GuysPostureSingle Guy Author:Frank Pittman