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A little bit of haterade shrouding a lot of truth!
(It’s in the comedy section, ok?)
In the holy trinity of single-name American power women (Hillary, Oprah, Martha), Martha alone is completely unapologetic about her successes and her failures. She has no qualms about declaring what she is — to paraphrase Jay-Z, she’s not a businesswoman but a business, woman — and she refuses to care whether we all want to be her besties.
Martha Stewart’s Best Lesson: Don’t Give a Damn - NYmag.com/The Cut
Yes, I know I’m late on this but the outrage is still right on time…
I cannot get websites to publish my pieces for FREE yet this book is happening. Thank you, Gawker, for dissecting the absurdity. You often miss the mark or are just too rude, but this is perfection. Also, Lena Dunham and Gwyneth Paltrow should never be referred to in the same space unless it is to point out how Lena Dunham is like a tiny stain on Gwyneth’s custom, cream-colored cashmere sweater (or jumper, if she’s in London).
Is our new argument that women have to 100% support each other all of the time, even when a particular woman isn’t necessarily deserving of that support? Are we really advocating the position that a woman can’t make fun of another woman for doing something stupid/obnoxious/annoying/etc., JUST because she is a woman too?
Because if so, that is the least feminist thing I’ve ever heard.
Reclining airplane seats are a terrible idea and should be banned.
Obviously, everyone on the plane would be better off if no one reclined; the minor gain in comfort when you tilt your seat back 5 degrees is certainly offset by the discomfort when the person in front of you does the same. But of course someone always will recline her seat, like the people in the first row, or the woman in front of me, whom I hate. (At least we’re not in the middle seat. People who recline middle seats are history’s greatest monsters.)
I fly tomorrow. No recline zone!
Compare Bey’s performance to the Go Daddy commercial featuring supermodel Bar Rafaeli and the “nerdy” software developer. “There are two sides to Go Daddy. There’s the sexy side represented by Bar Rafaeli and there’s the smart side that creates a killer website for your small business, represented by Walter.” Rafaeli is valued exclusively for how she appeals aesthetically to others, she has no agency or worth aside from the desire she incites. Walter drives all the value; he is intelligent and owns the only action-verb in this sentence, “create.” That is the sexist bullshit I want to keep my hypothetical daughters far, far away from.
All displays of sexuality are not alike. They are not all equally undermining, equally exploitative, or equally empowering. The most popular artist in the world in a leather bustier rocking out with her all-female band on the country’s biggest stage cannot be reduced to “gyrating in a black teddy.” To do so is to negate her agency in her own performance, and that is some seriously sexist condescension. Context matters. She is not Britney Spears at 16 in the plaid skirt and pigtails. Beyoncé’s context is, effectively, world domination.
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I must remind you to vote vote vote on Tuesday or earlier if you can! And do what you can to convince others as well.
The tone is a little harsh, but the sentiment is correct.
In particular:
“On domestic policy, his alleged wheelhouse, he was vague, untruthful, and he walked right into a haymaker he should have seen coming from a mile off, when he started bloviating about Biden’s role in the “failed” stimulus program, only to have Biden slap him around with Ryan’s own requests for stimulus money for his home district back in Wisconsin. He also made it quite clear that a Romney-Ryan White House will do everything it can to eliminate a woman’s right to choose.”
Also, go Yankees! And go away post-Moscow Mule effects.
