How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, as hosts for the Golden Globe Awards, have taken feminism to a whole new level. - AFP

The presenters’ opening monologue was sharply, brilliantly and, most of all, hilariously feminist.

Nobody goes to a movie awards ceremony in Hollywood to find a feminist statement. This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants, with the press holding them and inspecting their shiny hair, accessories and outfits as if they were My Little Pony dolls, while the men stand manfully in their backgrounds.