Micaela Baranello, on operatic depictions of rape: "For all its noble goals, though, this particular strain of directorial revisionism only occasionally concerns itself with women’s agency. It is not insignificant that most of these sexually charged productions were — like a vast majority of opera productions over all — directed by men."
Ann Powers: "Loving rock and roll requires engaging with a terrible reality, one that the music itself has not solved and sometimes helped its fans to forget. It's this: the real erotic freedom many women, and young people in general, have experienced through rock and roll is always partial and precarious. As great as it feels for a girl to let the noise and rhythm surge through her body, that body still moves within a world where others wield all kinds of weapons to contain you."