Atribulado -y acaso saturado- por el trabajo periodístico de los últimos días, durante el fin de semana se me ocurrió mirar un documental titulado Team…

Amazing how someone of influence can have so much power of everyone else. Du Pont controlled these wrestlers. He controlled the entire city. He even had some control over the FBI and the CIA during th...

At the 2015 Golden Globes, host Tina Fey considered the effort Steve Carell had put into his transformative, prosthetic-laden role as millionaire wrestling enthusiast and murderer John du Pont. “It took Steve Carell two hours to prepare for his role in Foxcatcher, including hair and make-up,” Fey said. “For comparison, it took me three hours to prepare for my role tonight as a human woman.” This has become a daily catchphrase in my life, one my partner now knows well. I’ll need 90 minutes to turn myself into a human woman. I’m off to spend two hours and €200 to have extra hair attached to my head just to look like an acceptable human woman. My partner usually just nods bemusedly. None of these are standards he has ever imposed on me – I arrived in the relationship with them already fully formed, after a lifetime of learning. I’ve also spent a lifetime learning about sexism, feminism and misogyny, and am acutely aware that these beauty rules are patriarchal, oppressive and ever-changing, specifically designed to keep women feeling inadequate. And yet the possibility of unlearning the rules remains elusive, and so these two educations sit uneasily beside each other, going...