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Then comes the most telling and heartrending line in her statement. ‘I should’ve known’, she writes, ‘that I was stepping out of line’. There it is. Proof of the extraordinary pressure put on women to know their place. Only that pressure no longer comes from gruff old sexists who think women should stay in the kitchen but rather from leftish social justice warriors who think of themselves as perfectly right-on.
These are the kind of people who wring their hands over misogyny in the music industry. Over the sexist questions interviewers ask of stars like Taylor Swift or the fat-shaming of Lizzo. And yet here they are wagging a hairy finger at RóisÃn Murphy and telling her to shut her trap if she wants to keep selling albums. They’re as bad as any antiquated brute in a record company boardroom.
Then comes the most telling and heartrending line in her statement. ‘I should’ve known’, she writes, ‘that I was stepping out of line’. There it is. Proof of the extraordinary pressure put on women to know their place. Only that pressure no longer comes from gruff old sexists who think women should stay in the kitchen but rather from leftish social justice warriors who think of themselves as perfectly right-on.
These are the kind of people who wring their hands over misogyny in the music industry. Over the sexist questions interviewers ask of stars like Taylor Swift or the fat-shaming of Lizzo. And yet here they are wagging a hairy finger at RóisÃn Murphy and telling her to shut her trap if she wants to keep selling albums. They’re as bad as any antiquated brute in a record company boardroom.