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Short thread on #Meghan’s new podcast #Archetypes. Sure waspish columnists are at work & there’s plenty of soft underbelly to attack. BUT there’s genuine news value to her interview with @serenawilliams not least that #Harry & SW conferred on leaving the only lives they knew 1/?
The concept of Meghan’s series, examining & words & stereotypes deployed against women, is solid. (Says the co-founder of @PrimadonnaFest… why waste a great word when you can reclaim it?) And her first episode tackles a word all too often thrown at women as an insult: *ambition*
Here’s a classic example of a woman being damned for ambition: “The previously compassionate creature was becoming a woman of strong opinions and bigger ambitions.” But which author wrote this phrase, more revealing of biographer than subject? And about whom? Well…
