COMMENT: I don’t know why these women don’t just say, ‘F**k off, I’m not having a meeting with you in your dressing gown with nothing on underneath’
Recently I’ve found myself seeking out the hard-won insights of wild, gifted women from the 60s and 70s — rockers mainly, and poets, muses, hangers-on. Pattie Boyd, Patti Smith, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon.
Even from beyond the grave, in the case of Janis Joplin — the refugee from small-town Texas, who found her home in restive San Francisco. Overweight, bra-less, armpits unshaven, she indulged a sexual appetite so ferocious some feminists were squeamish about claiming her. To watch clips of Joplin’s “ravaged countenance” on stage, wrote journalist Mick Brown, at the release of a 2016 documentary about her, is to witness “less a performance than an electrifying act of possession”.
President Clinton hugs singer Carly Simon shortly after arriving at the Martha's Vineyard airport in 1998.Touched by the Sun Sure, she told the magazine, when she was a young model photographers would hit on her, but “you didn’t submit and say, ‘Oh must I?’” On Weinstein and #MeToo she says, “I don’t know why these women don’t just say, ‘Fuck off, I’m not having a meeting with you in your dressing gown with nothing on underneath’.”
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