In the course of making my documentary series about identity, Who Are You?, for Channel 4, the identity I found hardest to talk about, the most elusive, was Default Man’s. Somehow, his world-view, his take on society, now so overlaps with the dominant narrative that it is like a Death Star hiding behind the moon. We cannot unpick his thoughts and feelings from the “proper, right-thinking” attitudes of our society. It is like in the past, when people who spoke in cut-glass, RP, BBC tones would insist they did not have an accent, only northerners and poor people had one of those. We live and breathe in a Default Male world: no wonder he succeeds, for much of our society operates on his terms. Grayson Perry asks how did the straight, white, middle-class Default Man take control of our society – and how can he be dethroned? newstatesman/culture/2014/10/grayson-perry-rise-and-fall-default-man
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:25:25 +0000
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