Sally Quinn and Deborah Tannen Reveal Plan to Destroy Women's Progress
It was a real meeting of the minds, apparently: yesterday, professional opinion-havers Sally Quinn and Deborah Tannen "met for a morning summit at Georgetown waterfront restaurant Sequoia to discuss the state of women." You simply must read this whole thing. It will make you feel terrible, these 20 notable quotables from their conversation. It is like a guide to the retrograde. They may be in the Taliban. Here, sample just one, from Ms. Quinn! "At the beginning of the feminist movement, it was women taking power back and it was really heady stuff… then it got out of control, as all revolutions do. They got militant… there was a period there where it was embarrassing to get pregnant." Oh and also Ms. Tannen decides that Sarah Palin's "femininity contributes to why many people don't take her seriously." Oh yes, that's it: nail on the head, sister. (This makes me want to take some nails through the head.)
'…..and thats when I reached for my revolver.'
Wow.
All gay people look the same and one should go on the O'Reilly show for the makeup.
(though, she does appreciate a good Wiccan)
FYI: If you take away "Deborah Tannen and Sally Quinn at Sequoia" and substitute "Monica, Phoebe and Rachel at Central Perk," this becomes a lot less terrifying. Still doomed, though.
Aren't things bad enough already? Where's Balk? I need more bear videos.
Does that bear video have a happy ending? Or do the cows kick the shit out of him? I CAN'T WATCH TIL I KNOW.
THE BEAR SURVIVES. But the cows do indeed kick the shit out of him. (There's a 'bullying' joke to be made there but I'm too depressed to muster it.)
Aw, jolie. I can't bear to see you like this.
@jolie did you see this bear? He was safely caught in a net! [I wish it was a video. From Big Picture, but there are some depressing other animal pictures on there, so, fair warning]
<3 U all so much. Seriously.
I would love a reality show with Sally Quinn, Maureen Dowd and Peggy Noonan.
Locked in a room with a lot of booze.
I would watch the heck out of that.
Only if the key gets thrown away.
And the walls slowly close in like a trash compactor.
Can Edith Zimmerman write a Letters To The Editors… style response to this?
@pissy elliott: Off-topic, but — YES! BLOOD-SPRAYING WALL CAT FROM "HOUSE" AVATAR.
Personally, I love that they included a picture of three women in high heels and pantsuits from the waist down and simply captioned it, "Women". It really helped the story.
That is absurd. (not your comment)
Jesus H. God you made me read that whole damn thing and not ONE WORD on whether I should use a razor or a depilatory.
They're just not that into you.
Oh dear God. Sequoia is horrible.
HA! I concur. Suddenly, two groups of people I hate have overlapped, BOTH at Sequoia. Who would have thought?
You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!
Recap: Hair hair hair, dress dress. Dress dress dress dress! Makeup, makeup makeup, Tits. Tits! Husband, husband husband. Sexy. Sexy sexy sexy, SEXY. SEX-AY.
For many of us pregnancy remains embarrassing.
Sarah Palin is sexy. And it's hard to separate out her sexiness from her political beliefs
Mostly because neither exist, so yeah.
I raged.
Now available at Slate, a nightmare I once had: "Video: Sally Quinn interviews Slate Columnist Christopher Hitchens."
Sorry for being a Tannen apologist (I lurved her in college), but there are only 2 quotes there from her. And… they're not wrong?
I agree, but I didn't want to be the one to point this out, because I don't have lady-part cred.
I had to stop at #12, although I think that and 14 together explain the continued popularity of Fox News.
"Whenever I'm on Bill O'Reilly, people say, 'You looked so great on FOX last night.' But when I ask, 'What did you think about what I said?' they go blank. THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WAS SAYING."
This is the answer to the question "How does Sally Quinn get through the day being Sally Quinn?" When she sees that 'Good LORD, you're an embarrassment'" look on people's faces, she assumes they're blinded by her fantastic looks.