Article here. Excerpt:
'When it comes to the age-old question of men and women, their relative strengths and weaknesses, a strange species of madness seems to have recently taken hold. Everywhere, not only in the media but also in academic and political life, the complexities of gender have been ironed out, reduced to a series of reassuring but stupid assumptions. The female principle is essentially generous and virtuous; masculinity is its opposite: selfish, untrustworthy.
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The revered and apparently intelligent actress Meryl Streep has this week been speculating on why the film Mamma Mia! has become the highest-grossing release of all time in the UK.
Me too: trapped on an aeroplane recently, I endured 30 minutes of the film's mindless feel-good guff before switching over to Hellboy II. It is popular, I concluded, for the same reason that Busby Berkeley films did well during the Depression: it offers fluffy, escapist optimism for hard times.
Not according to its star. "I knew it would do well because it was aimed at an audience that has been neglected in recent years in film offerings – women," said Meryl Streep. "They are the last group anybody ever cares about."
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