Backlash over ‘sexist’ Margot Robbie Vanity Fair article

A Vanity Fair article on Aussie actress Margot Robbie has ruffled more than a few feathers for its sexist language and for suggesting that “Australia is America 50 years ago”.

People took to social media yesterday to voice their disgust with the profile piece, which included the line: “She is 26 and beautiful, not in that otherworldly, catwalk way but in a minor knock- around key, a blue mood, a slow dance.”

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Writer Rich Cohen was slammed for his voyeuristic and bizarre descriptions, saying The Legend of Tarzan star Robbie was “sexy and composed even while naked but only in character” and belittling her home town as a place where “a dingo really will eat your baby”.

A bemused reader described the article as the “weird, crotchety Hollywood machine cranking away”.

“I nearly drowned in his drool over her,” Phil Varlese tweeted.

Bailey White wrote: “Hey Vanity Fair! If Margot Robbie is the girl next door, I’m pretty sure that makes me the senile cat lady watching Wheel of Fortune. Stop.”

The Wolf of Wall Street actress told Vanity Fair she was in no danger of becoming a diva because her Gold Coast upbringing kept her grounded.

Cohen then suggested that all Australian people “live and die with the plot turns of soap operas in Melbourne and Perth”.

“(Australia is) sunny and slow, a throwback, which is why you go there for throwback people,” he wrote.

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