TV Critic for The New Yorker. “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution.” https://t.co/DaI3zWvv1Q
See, this is why I have to watch 30 min of TikTok before I go to bed.
Reboot Quincy, you cowards.
The press definitely treated Britney Spears horribly. But it's not some ancient story of misogynist horror—and in certain ways, things seem worse now, because of social media. Every feed is a tabloid; every phone is a paparazzo.
LOL, just watched an episode of The Dating Game in which the prize was a trip to glamorous... Roanoke, VA. That seems more like a punishment. <Preparing to be ratio'd by Roanoke.>
Buffy is my formative TV show, a show that meant & means a lot to me. It's intensely depressing to hear how Whedon treated his cast, behind the scenes—and I'm grateful to Charisma Carpenter for speaking out about it.
Very much on board for this harsh @thehighsign interrogation of Promising Young Woman:
Ugly men get to be powerful every day, after all. It’s the analogue to the great Bella Abzug line: “Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor, it is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”
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The more I think about it, the more impressed I am that Michelle Wolf did such a harsh act WITHOUT insulting any woman's looks. She aimed straight at the white female enforcers & never once suggested that anyone was a bimbo or a dog—like the man they work for surely would have.
Trump is not "somber," he's not "acknowledging facts" or "deferring to experts." I doubt he even has a friend in a coma. His goal is strategic: to erase history (his week-ago Easter statement) & nudge the definition of success so he meets it.
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