it had badly-drawn pictures to match
it's this sort of thing that reminds me just how fucking useless any attempts i might make to remedy the sexism and bigotry of campus magazine articles would be. although at the Washington Post doesn't have badly-written "erotica" about law firm partners sexually harassing their interns, at least, the ultimate argument is always still Women Are Dumb (and basically just here so you can have sex with them).
funny thing: the Post's been wondering lately why it has so few female readers, particularly in the desirable young-college-educated-with-babies bracket. can't think why that should be the case, can you? perhaps any young, college educated mothers who happen to bother to read this dreck can set them straight, but since it's really not an unusual article in today's media, most probably won't bother. the Moon, of course, doesn't care about circulation, so whenever i go to them to complain i'm just told to fuck off and stop being "so sensitive".
posted by anne @ 11:08 AM
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Oh dear, dreck is the nicest word I can think of to describe that article. Keep on complaining, sis, you're doing it for a lot of us.
The sad thing is a I just read Jeff Fecke take down two different op-eds along these lines on Shakesville and I wasn't sure which one you were referring to. There's no better question than "which horribly insulting, stereotype-ridden op-ed in a the liberal mainstream media?".
::blink blink::
Did Allen get bumped from her usual culture warrior slots at The Weekly Standard and National Review 'cause Buckley died?
... Probably not. She published an editorial on Nancy Pelosi in the L.A. Times a couple weeks back. Maybe she has a contract with The Washington Post Company (which owns the Post, L.A. Times, etc. last I knew).
I expect more of the same's coming again soon.
I have actually watched Grey's Anatomy.
tanya: i wish complaining did any good. it doesn't.
liz: i just had the misfortune to run across that other article -- the one in the LA Times -- and damn, i wish i hadn't. and now i'm having a long and bitter and unpleasant argument about why feminism is probably dead, with greg, who for some reason seems to think that sincere letter-writing campaigns could still have an effect on the mire of dumbfuckery that is our society.
mike: the Times and the Post have separate owners these days, but you certainly couldn't tell it from the editorial pages.
martin: sorry, but this means that you are now a girl. you are no longer allowed to vote, and you will have to start getting regular waxes, obsessively purchasing hair-care products, and buying Cosmo. (there are no subsidies available for these activities.) you will also have to renounce your bodily autonomy.
if, however, you can reasonably claim that you watched Grey's Anatomy primarily to get into some girl's pants, you may be able to reclaim your manhood, but you'll have to take off your shirt at a football game first. preferably while drunk.
Ah, so they do. (Wait - did they just have a resource-sharing agreement? Never mind, it's not germane.) And yeah, hard to tell. Once upon a time I believed the Post was a decent paper; I don't anymore. They can't do basic math, they can't reliably get facts straight on Iraq, the editorial page is -- well, case in point. Even the Onion doesn't do self loathing without going somewhere with it.
I wonder: was Woodstein just a detour on a beeline route between Hearstian yellow journalism and today? I agree that letter writing will be more trouble than it's worth here. I can't tell where to put my expectations in general. Meanwhile, I quit following the general news in lieu of yelling at it every day, so what do I know?
Maybe this will help: Katha Pollit delivers an impressive trashing of the Washington Post editorial policy in the Washington Post.
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