 Summary of this article
- Outlook's editor reflects on feminism, marginality, and power, asserting female cultural models in a masculine world while demanding equality.
- The piece traces a personal and professional journey through everyday sexism, patriarchy, and resistance, rooted in art, poetry, and newsroom leadership.
- It argues for dismantling male-gaze structures in media, building inclusive collectives, and writing stories that matter,that others overlook, that need empathy and stories that aren’t sexist.
“Women feel differently, so they talk differently, have a different relationship to words and to ideas of which these are the vehicle. Asserting difference at the same time as demanding equal rights is obviously the position to take. We must impose female cultural models, which have a universal value in a world where ‘universal’ equals ‘masculine’. In other words, cultivate marginality until the margin takes up half the page. We have a long way to go...”
—Marina Yaguello, French linguist |
