The Devil Wears Double Standards
Warning: this post briefly discusses sexual assault and slut-shaming/victim blaming.
A while back, I read The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.
And while I largely enjoyed it, and it’s really well written, I have Some Thoughts™ about the way it treats women — especially women with any type of ambition or aspirations.
The Devil Wears Prada is a book about Andy, who becomes an assistant to Miranda Priestly — boss b**ch in chief at fashion magazine ‘Runway.’
Miranda is a living nightmare who seems to delight in making her assistants’ lives hell.
Confession time… I haven’t seen the film.
Well, I’ve seen like 10 minutes of the film — then I got bored and kind of… wandered off? I think I left the room, I can’t remember — it was like a decade ago, and I haven’t tried to watch it since.
If I saw it today I might love it, who knows? But as things stand, I have not seen it.