Screwing Your Way To The Top? Good for Lana Del Rey For Helping Kill That Myth
The pop-star Lana Del Rey denied this week that she had “slept her way to the top”. This was the patient response to an interviewer’s question about her song, “F***ed My Way Up To The Top”, in which Lana addresses the sort of wholly idiotic, culturally acceptable trope that occurs whenever a young-ish woman is found being successful at, well, literally anything.
“It’s a commentary,” Lana explained, coming across in print as more affable than I’d be during similar dimwitted probing. She wasn’t, Lana underlined, saying she DID sleep her way to the top, she was saying she was aware of that general tedious mumbling which drips from people’s mouths whenever a woman has acquired something another man - and often another woman - hasn’t.
Yes, women are just as guilty of this. It drips from our gobs so freely when we’re faced with our own shortcomings. The mythical concept of the all-powerful, bewitching vagina which can give leverage to any pay deal or promotion is so entrenched in earthly society that even women stare at other women’s success and mutter, “Who did she sleep with to get that?” Nobody supposes this about successful men because when men’s achievements are focused upon, people are generally wholly reasonab le and logical about the hard work, talent, determination, sacrifice and steely will it requires to rise higher than other humans.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/screwing-your-way-to-the-top-good-for-lana-del-rey-for-helping-kill-that-myth-9624202.html
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