At the height of her career, Grace Jones decided she wanted to direct her own video.  What happened is a perfect microcosm of sexism in the creative world. This excerpt [NSFW] from her memoir tells the story of how she swore off directing forever, nearly wound up in a mental institution for defending her work, and decided all men could use penetrating.

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"You can tell why there are so few female film directors. It’s the same with any job that society has decided can only be done by a man. They find ways to undermine and undervalue a woman doing that job. And the fact that you end up saying ‘they’ makes you sound paranoid. But there is no doubt that a particular job is usually for the boys. If a woman tries to do it, she is treated as though she is doing something wrong, even perverse."

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