tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3702261800102628429.post1592094734940135912..comments2016-11-24T20:55:46.734-08:00Comments on Feminists for Colbert: Feminism = Pole Dancing?Women's and Gender Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01057937340421616286noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3702261800102628429.post-8343476962407727282007-08-05T21:32:00.000-07:002007-08-05T21:32:00.000-07:00Hmm, interesting! I thought the strippers came off...Hmm, interesting! I thought the strippers came off well in comparison (albeit represented by their male boss guy)--at least they're honest about what they're doing, and not trying to cloak it in pseudo-feminist rhetoric. I thought the juxtaposition of Mink and the strippers was brilliant--it took the piece beyond mere silliness to social critique. <BR/><BR/>Re Stephen's "note to self" to hire more women - here's a sad/happy fact from <I>New York</I> magazine and NoFactZone.net that I wanted to share with this blog: Of the 67 writers nominated for an Emmy as part of the writing staff of a Comedy/Music/Variety Show this year, only four are women - and two of them (Laura Krafft and Allison Silverman) write for <I>The Colbert Report</I>. (Rachel Axler writes for <I>The Daily Show</I> and Meredith Scardino for <I>David Letterman</I>.) <BR/><BR/>So you can say there's a lot of room for improvement in this field, or you can say the <I>Report</I> leads the pack. Or both!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3702261800102628429.post-29161275104145954572007-07-23T06:26:00.000-07:002007-07-23T06:26:00.000-07:00OK, I like Colbert and the segment was funny, but ...OK, I like Colbert and the segment was funny, but how would you feel if you were Mink and you'd been edited so heavily that you've practically been misquoted? It's one thing to heavily edit interviews with politicians and celebrities, but it's quite another to re-stigmatize an already stigmatized group of people, strippers. And I'm sure you know that many women in the sex industry (the ones who've chosen the field themselves, not the ones who've been forced into it) do feel that their work is liberating. <BR/><BR/>I like the concept of this blog, but in order to be actual feminist, you need to do a bit more analyzing of The Colbert Report and less blindly following comedy writers.Elaine Vigneaulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02678177594055407926noreply@blogger.com