The Emily Gould Museum

Man oh man, people hated this Slate essay about blog culture, manufactured outrage, and sexist faux-feminism.  A few months later while promoting Bossypants Tina Fey told Terry Gross: “In the episode [of 30 Rock called “TGS Hates Women”], we have a fake website called Joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was … I don’t have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she’s beautiful, and that’s part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, ‘That’s amazing. Good for you.’ But because she’s very beautiful, people are like, ‘You’re using that.’ It’s a mess. We can’t figure it out.” Which is basically all I was trying to say.

Man oh man, people hated this Slate essay about blog culture, manufactured outrage, and sexist faux-feminism.  A few months later while promoting Bossypants Tina Fey told Terry Gross:

“In the episode [of 30 Rock called “TGS Hates Women”], we have a fake website called Joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was … I don’t have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she’s beautiful, and that’s part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like, ‘That’s amazing. Good for you.’ But because she’s very beautiful, people are like, ‘You’re using that.’ It’s a mess. We can’t figure it out.”

Which is basically all I was trying to say.