Anna Grosman on why Off Campus has women of every age obsessed, and what it gets right about safety, desire and pleasure.
Most Melbourne travel guides read like a school excursion. Trams, footy, dumplings, repeat. Grand if you’ve never been, but if you’re a grown woman with taste and a bit of disposable income, you’d be forgiven for asking where the actual fun is hiding…Here’s a curated list of fun things to do in Melbourne for women who travel well, eat well, fuck well, and aren’t fussed about pretending otherwise.
Netflix’s Ladies First is clumsy, sometimes cringe, and accidentally reveals something profound about gender, power, and what women actually experience. When you stack every small dismissal, every unwanted touch, every interruption into one day on one body, it stops looking like comedy. It looks like a documentary. Critics called it exaggerated. But are we really overreacting, or have we just never seen it all in one frame before?
