'Esquire' Writer Inexplicably Name-Checks Female Celebs He Thinks Are Ugly
LatestReading through an otherwise insipid Esquire profile of Megan Fox (bitch believes in leprechauns!) about how she’s aiming to “escape from her fate as a sex symbol” (which she goes about doing by posing in her bra and panties for the magazine?), one is suddenly slapped with this gratuitous little nugget from the piece’s author Stephen Marche: “[W]omen no longer need to be beautiful in order to express their talent. Lena Dunham and Adele and Lady Gaga and Amy Adams are all perfectly plain, and they are all at the top of their field.”
If time seemed to stop for a second after reading that, I think it’s because we somehow managed to stutter the rotation of the earth with the power of our collective side-eye. Seriously though, how rude!
And also, how inane! It could probably be said for Marche that men no longer need to be cogent in order to express their opinions. While Lena Dunham has had the sheer nerve to create the kind of normal girl character that is apparently displeasing to men like Marche and Howard Stern, anybody who has working eyeballs would never describe Lady Gaga as “perfectly plain.” And for all his salivating over the symmetrical marvel that is Megan Fox’s face, he seems to not recognize that kind of flawlessness in the faces of women like Adele. You could probably guess why. And what the fuck is with the Amy Adams dig? That girl is nothing if not conventionally attractive.