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Monday, July 27, 2009

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Sexism is Unacceptable: An Apology to ID PR

MAYBE SOME CHOCOLATE!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!

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belltolls
belltolls (#184)

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.

sigerson
sigerson (#179)

they always read like a IM chat transcript to me.

belltolls
belltolls (#184)

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.

IBentMyWookie
IBentMyWookie (#133)

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?

kitten_witawip

I would have slipped and called her Kelly Preston.

Choire Sicha

No.... I'm more subtle than that!

jfruh
jfruh (#713)

Chorie, for future reference, the term you want is "womyn." If speaking alound, spell it, if necessary.

jfruh
jfruh (#713)

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?

KateAurthur
KateAurthur (#1,216)

As your editor, I was shocked that you didn't refer to them as the "ID PR ladies." For once.

FeyBoohoozer
FeyBoohoozer (#410)

As a geigh, you should be calling everyone honey or gurl fren anyways.

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