Setting Back Feminism Since 1983

by dday

I think there’s a good article in this profile of Tina Fey by Maureen Dowd, but it’s nowhere to be found on the page. Instead, I would rather read Fey’s reaction to this mental patient with a notepad bursting into her house, demanding a cocktail (there are references to the alcohol they’re drinking throughout) and asking questions almost entirely confined to her looks, her weight, her mostly unnoticeable scar, her love life, who she flirts with, and whether she was cool in high school. The questions reveal a series of insecurities so transparently that it reads like a psychiatric evaluation. I agree with Amanda that Fey comes off well regardless, but what I’d really like to hear from her is “Yeah, what the hell was that, a celebrity profile by Freud?”

While reading it, I thought back to the fact that there was a time when Dowd did sports reporting at the late Washington Star, worked the metro desk at the New York Times, and then served as a Washington correspondent. Was she probing key Congressmen about their sex lives as a corollary to the debate over the Clean Air Act?

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