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Good thing the overweight and impoverished white folks are still chock full of funny, too.
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09/09/09
At least her son didn't live to see this. Hey, maybe they can make a Ouija board for Nicholas Hughes, too. I mean, why not? Fun fun funny!
08/04/09
08/04/09
This piece seems pretty mild by comparison. In fact, there was really nothing negative that she doesn't already reveal in her own writing, and there were even some sympathetic elements (like the parts about her rescuing animals, even if she seems to project her own high-needs personality on them).
08/03/09
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08/03/09
(she vacuumed her lawn)
as an aside deserves that title. In brackets! Fucking genius.
Also, WTF Jezebel? Pages take like 20 minutes to load, and there are hardly any comments, so I assume everyone is having the same problems. It was like this yesterday, but it was back to normal last night - what happened?
07/06/09
In my opinion, the issue isn't with women being confessional. It's with the 4th estate breaking down the 4th wall. Columns are generally a place for reporters and editors to exercise some more literary writing, to reflect on some personal experience...but when does it become "I'm a name you know, so let me tell you more about myself, and let this inform you every time you see my byline"?
As a journalist, I'd have a problem with trying to maintain an appropriate professional "distance" between my work and my personal self, if the personal side is so viscerally exposed in the professional realm, in the same spot. Now if one retired or quit the job, and then wrote a book, that'd be a different story.
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Also, I think poetry and novels and memoirs are meaningfully different from the sort of thing that appears in the Daily Mail. I'm not sure it's fair to lump poetry in with confessional journalism.
07/06/09
*tap tap*
Editors' demands? Deja vu?
More female-on-female snarking, as opposed to possibly confronting what the real problem(s) might be?
And having been possibly pressured by your own editor to feed the argument, for pageviews?
Or having come up with that bright idea yourself?
*headdesk*
07/06/09
I mean, off the top of my head, I can think of a lot of "confessional" type pieces that weren't meant to be particularly incisive, or artistic, or even, I dunno, "serious." Like Moe's tampon piece.
At the same time, there's a difference between that sort of writing, and the "OMG BAW POOR ME" stuff that seems to be the filling in the shit sandwich that is the Daily Mail. All, "I USED LIP GLOSS AND IT WENT ALL WRONG! A heartbreaking expose of one woman's torment!" and "MY LACOSTE POLO LEFT ME FOR A MORE PRETENTIOUS PREPPY! A story of my sadness and VERY VERY SERIOUS NAVEL-GAZING!!!11"
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07/06/09
I suppose that's why it doesn't bother me on jezebel (Moe's tampon piece is a great example); jezebel is "Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women." It's not the new york times. I like it this way.