Chicks Dig Tanks @3:30 PM
I almost want to put this up without any context, because it is just that AMAZING, but here ya go: "The Austrian army had hoped that its new video would attract some fresh recruits. Instead, it has engendered charges of sexism and insensitivity. The clip shows shreiking young woman chasing after a tank in the hopes of going on a 'joy ride.'" It sure does! 18
"Mansplaining" Critique Really Upsets Men, Who Are Usually Too Busy Feigning Concern For the Subjects of Women's Memoirs @11:00 AM
In the wake of our re-realization yesterday that the executive class of Apple is an all-male revue, there are (at least) two interesting woman-related discussions going on up in the Internet. One involves manplaining. The other has to do with how men treat women when they write about things. And they are sooo related. Let us begin with Awl pal and comedian Julie Klausner, who is meeting lots of concern from men about how the people in her book will be represented. Um, Julie asks: what about me? READ MORE 81
Explaining Metropolitan Diary @10:00 AM
"Sometimes when I read Metropolitan Diary items on Mondays, I don’t necessarily ‘get it’ because they involve people I don’t have anything in common with and don’t feel like understanding," writes someone today, who has chosen to spend the morning grappling with meaning in this most-aged of newspaper columns. "I’ve read it six times now and can’t make any sense of it. And I love sarcasm!" Actually, we can help! READ MORE 22
People Pay Attention When Men Are The Victims @10:42 AM
Now that they're sometimes raping and occasionally castrating men—who, of course, matter so much more than women, which is the only conceivable reason there is very little international involvement in the affairs of "post-war" Congo, the rape capital of the world—maybe the international community will take actual action in Congo now? Just asking! 5
Sexism is Unacceptable: An Apology to ID PR @3:06 PM
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! 10
Susan Orlean Needs A Room Of Her Own! Or A Wife! Or A Bodyguard! @1:23 PM
Ruh roh. I think New Yorker writer Susan Orlean's Twitter just exploded with lady hate-mail. Oh no, soon probably Rebecca Traister is going to be mean to her over at The Cat Box! 22
Are New York Times Ads Sexist? @3:29 PM
"I object to The New York Times ads on TV that are sexist," a reader—probably a broad—tells advertising columnist Stuart Elliot. "There's a young woman who talks about the Styles section and a young man who talks about the Week in Review. It's only the women who are excited about Styles and the guy who reads the more substantive sections. I find that very, very objectionable." READ MORE 10
This is why Linda Greenhouse got out of the biz. @9:35 AM
Bad news, journoladies: If you want to remain in the profession it appears that your only two options are writing columns where you deliver deeply personal revelations torn from your sexual and emotional experiences, or you deliver deeply defiant columns about how all anybody wants from women writers anymore are deeply personal revelations torn from their sexual and emotional experiences. There is, however, one way to avoid this and still receive commissions: be famous. 15
