Pamela Anderson has been married five times. She has made the kind of romantic decisions – impulsive, reckless, incorrigible – that suggest someone who struggles to be alone. She had known her first husband only a few days; her second marriage lasted four months; she described her most recent, in 2020, as “a disaster”. Now, at 58, she is finally single.

“There’s that great Osho quote – ‘The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love.’ That’s where I’m at right now,” she told AnOther magazine. “I just want to unleash the dragon. I don’t need anybody in my way. I want to get it out. It happens at different times in everybody’s life, and this is my time.”

Inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places, but the pneumatic 90s pin-up must be the most unexpected feminist icon so far. And yet, her new insistence on decentring men is merely the latest entry in a list of role model moves she has made recently. It’s quite the 180 from someone whose........

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