Another pretty face of a generation

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Salon Offers A Last, Well-Put Word On A Week Of Women Writers [Rooms Of Their Own]
Published 5/29/2008 by Anna at Jezebel
... down. And this: No matter how angry you felt about Gould's piece, it was almost impossible to read the comments and not feel terrible: for her, about her, and about yourself for having even peeked. The process is exhausting, and not good for anyone, especially women who get stuck with some lame avatar they feel does not represent them, but whom they do not particularly feel like burning at the stake just for having been clever, lucky or talented enough to wind up drawing a spotlight. Another Pretty Face Of A Generation [Salon] Related: ...

Idle Chatter: Battle of the Titans, End of Mass Media
Published 5/30/2008 by Mark Stein at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... The Carrie Bradshaw/Emily Gould backlash is basically symptomatic of a "severely limited number of spaces for women's writing voices," says a woman writer. "More annoying -- and twisted -- is that those meager spots for women are consistently filled by those willing to expose themselves, visually and emotionally." [Salon] via [ ...

5 Ways to Dismiss The Sex and the City Movie
Published 5/30/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... s Tracie Egan, speaking in that same Salon article in which Bright was quoted (much of the SatC coverage on her own site was handed over to Emily Gould, internet pariah du jour): “I feel like Carrie’s spending habits are so much more dangerous than her sex habits. A bad credit history is more dangerous than herpes.” ...

To Dos Day
Published 6/3/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (StinkyLulu) at StinkyLulu
... over at Joe R's place -- seems proof positive of Rebecca Traister's excellent riff on the Emily Gould backlash . Traister writes, "Rather than being troubled by the fact that Gould -- or Bushnell, or Bradshaw, or whoever -- has the spotlight, why not question why so few other versions of femininity are allowed to share it?" All of which is to say, I'm thrilled for SATC 's milestone success, in the hopes that MORE astonishingly unapologetic , similarly imperfect and comparably enthralling big-screen-event treatments of women's relationships might soon crowd the multiplexes ...

StinkyLulu's Sex and the City Rant
Published 6/3/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (StinkyLulu) at Film Experience Blog
... over at Joe R's place) seems proof positive of Rebecca Traister's supersmart riff on the backlash against Emily Gould. Traister writes, "Rather than being troubled by the fact that Gould -- or Bushnell, or Bradshaw, or whoever -- has the spotlight, why not question why so few other versions of femininity are allowed to share it?" All of which is to say, I'm thrilled for SATC's ...