Sexism is Unacceptable: An Apology to ID PR
Dear ID PR professional publicity service representatives, I'm quite sorry that I referred to your staff as "girls." I was actually reeling at the moment, because one of you popped on the phone and interrupted your client mid-sentence, your Bernie-Madoff-victim client Kyra Sedgwick that I was talking to on the day Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. That reflexive, unacknowledged, totally random sexism on my part was realy uncalled for! Next time I will aim for "ladies" or even higher, like "women" or "people." Also some of you somewhere are probably men even! (Or boys, I guess.) Sorry! I guess at least I didn't go all Carol Rosenberg on you. Again: sorry!
Love your stuff in the Times (the sunny one) but I keep trying to come up with a name for your unique interview style — which I like very much.
they always read like a IM chat transcript to me.
Yeah, but it is hard to do that on purpose and with someone who is not online! Some sort of cross between free association, pointilism and non sequitar. I give up.
This post was just to let us know that you're interviewing the likes of Kyra Sedgwick, right?
Speaking of– how many times did you slip and call her Edie?
I would have slipped and called her Kelly Preston.
No…. I'm more subtle than that!
Chorie, for future reference, the term you want is "womyn." If speaking alound, spell it, if necessary.
Ooh, I just actually read the interview in question. Ha ha, they do NOT want you talking about NON-THE-CLOSER-RELATED-THINGS, do they?
As your editor, I was shocked that you didn't refer to them as the "ID PR ladies." For once.
As a geigh, you should be calling everyone honey or gurl fren anyways.