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No more judgment by Judith

"I’ve really judged other womens’ choices," Judith Lucy realises. "I want to do that a lot less."

2015-02-09_2247“It made me realise I’ve really judged other womens’ choices. So on a personal level I came away feeling that I wanted to do that a lot less,” confesses Judith Lucy.

One of Australia’s funniest ladies is on another mission, her second for ABC, in her latest series Judith Lucy is All Woman.

It follows on from her well-received debut, Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. This time she is determined to work out if the battle of the sexes is still in progress and if so, who is winning?

The idea draws inspiration from a line uttered by Ryan Gosling in the film Crazy, Stupid, Love, that resonated with her.

“He said, ‘When women started doing pole dancing as exercise that’s when men won the battle of the sexes.’ And I remember thinking ‘He might have a point!'” says Lucy.

“I was talking to (author / cartoonist) Kaz Cooke, coincidentally, about the fact that pole dancing had become an exercise and we both thought ‘Golly, I didn’t see that coming.’ I think I was still in the middle of making the Spiritual Journey show.

“So I thought ‘I’m going to need a job, I better come up with another idea for a series!’”

Across six episodes she jumps head-first into sex, showbiz, politics, families, cougars and careers.

In the first episode she dresses up as a (not very convincing) male for a drink with some bar flies.

“I go to a B&S ball, a female friendly sex shop, join women who make porn for women, and help them audition a guy.That could be a whole new career for me if this thing falls over,” she continues.

“I learn about having kids or not having kids, try a mechanical baby and actual children, and talk to stay at home dads. I play soccer, water aerobics with Anna Bligh, and get my hair straightened with Annabel Crabb.

“I go to Broken Hill, get my fitness assessed, learn how to box, dress up as elderly woman, tap dance, and go back to my old school in Perth.

“I just threw a lot of shit at the wall and hopefully something sticks.”

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She also turns investigative reporter, interviewing a cosmetic surgeon while he is undertaking work on her.

“When I looked at the procedures that were available, the one that leapt out at me was having my G-spot enhanced,” she admits.

“I just didn’t want to do anything to my face, who can blame me?

“So that involved me shouting at someone while a gentleman was injecting something into my vagina, and I think that’s an example of me not thinking something through.”

But there’s something for the blokes too, including interviews with Alan Davies, Adam Goodes and a weekly Battle of the Sexes round with Mick Molloy.

“There were certain areas where I don’t think it’s really a surprise to anyone that we need to have a look at stuff”

It’s not all about comedy. As anybody who recalls Spiritual Journey knows, a big appeal of the show is in seeing how the experiences affect the subject.

“I kind of guessed going in it would be ‘Wow, women are doing really well, we’ve come so far compared to the freedoms my mother had is amazing.” And there were certain areas where I don’t think it’s really a surprise to anyone that we need to have a look at stuff,” she continues.

“Domestic violence; it’s still very difficult for women who are mothers to balance that with having a career.

Lucy also seeks to broaden our definition of gender stereotypes, by interviewing transgender men Jez Pez and Buck Angel.

“Talking to someone like Buck Angel who is a porn star and, in his own words ‘a man with a pussy,’ makes you go ‘My God that is breaking so many boundaries.’ It really makes people question what it is to be a man or a woman,” she says.

“The more those lines get blurred the better off we will be.”

Judith Lucy is All Woman airs 9pm Wednesday on ABC.

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