More on Dowd's feet here:

http://tinyurl.com/avjbu

Apparently, they are enormous. Maybe nice shoes in her size are hard to find.

Fred on Dowd.

Hilarious.

Sorkin? Dowd? Why am I thinking of Andrea Dworkin?

....women as maids, shopgirls, hookers, ghosts and geishas?

Before I started zapping all TV commercials immediately, I couldn't help noticing that the standard ad exec's view was that American households are composed of an organised, cool, practical woman matched with a complete doofus of a husband. Does that count as some sort of cultural payback, or does everyone now ignore this nonsense same as me?

It's never their opinion, Stu, it's their opinion of what sells to housewives.

And PS, if she can buy shoes at Barney's, her feet aren't trannie large or anything.

I think the shoe thing is weird. Who buys shoes for someone else, unless she's walking on his chest in those heels? Sorkin strikes me as a submissive, though.
And does Dowd really think that Amy Pascal is a rocket scientist? Running a studio doesn't take a genius IQ.
But Sorkin and Dowd both like to believe that all their friends were honor students and double 800s, and thus deserve all the bounty with which they've been blessed.

Heh heh...I think Kate Coe's got it.

> Sorkin? Dowd? Why am I thinking of
> Andrea Dworkin?

Patrick comes through like a brother.

So this is OSM/Pajamas Media's idea of "best of the blogs"? A blog entry noting another blog entry from a major metropolitan newspaper writer commenting on another major metropolitan newspaper writer? And then some discussion of foot sizes?

Aha...that $3.5 million is just reaping in the returns!

Adam, there's more than one entry in my blog. Or are you too busy running around to Pajamas Media signatories to snipe to read any further?

Tragically, I don't suppose I'll ever be quite so fascinating as Adam Carstens. Here's a bit from his blog, http://www.foxbasealpha.com/:

Lots of busy-ness happening. A new couch, a trip to San Diego, and a special guest star for a few weeks. We now have what I consider to be the best rice cooker on the planet.

Frankly, I'm more interested in MoDo's shoe size.

By the way, the idea that anything on a major media site is tainted in some way is just dumb. So, Snead's earning a living for blogging. Good for her. That's my intention in joining PJ Media. I can write my book instead of trying to scare up advertisers to buy blogads. All good to me. Perhaps the sentiment being expressed by Adam is not the disdain it seems to be but envy instead.

Nice with the snark Amy - thanks for the plug! ;) The blog you found is not intended to be anything more than just personal musings for close friends and family - not claiming it as anything more than that (for professional related musings, go here: www.nslg.net/blog - and snark all you want).

Anyway - I just thought it was funny how the OSM bloggers claim to be "changing the world" and yet their featured blog piece is about you talking about someone else talking about MoDo...what IS with all the media navel gazing?

Adam, sometimes the statements of those in the media are worth discussing. Ellizabeth Snead reported on remarks made by Dowd. I gave my opinion on one of those remarks; an opinion I would venture is atypical. Much of my thinking is. That's why I get fired from papers from time to time, and why I'm banned from the LA Times features sections, and perhaps why I was invited to join Pajamas Media.

I'm so tired of the knee-jerk assumptions of people hellbent on disliking whatever they're supposed to. It was Dowd's assumption about Hollywood that I found worthy of comment. Whether Dowd made the remark she did or somebody else did is immaterial to me. Still, Dowd is a person of influence, so it would actually be weird to avoid commenting on her and her ideas. I hadn't before only because I've been too busy.

If you don't like what I write, I'm sure there are a number of sites that conform to your "no MSM" rules, or whatever it is that guides you in what is and isn't appropriate to post. Keep fighting the expected fight!

Stu,

Before I started zapping all TV commercials immediately, I couldn't help noticing that the standard ad exec's view was that American households are composed of an organised, cool, practical woman matched with a complete doofus of a husband. Does that count as some sort of cultural payback, or does everyone now ignore this nonsense same as me?

>I couldn't help noticing that the standard ad exec's view was that American households are composed of an organised, cool, practical woman matched with a complete doofus of a husband. Does that count as some sort of cultural payback, or does everyone now ignore this nonsense same as me?

I knew there was some reason the only things I watch now are the history channel or TiVo-ed episodes of Quantum Leap. If Dowd wants a man she should figure out what exactly that tasty evil leaper does right and do that instead of selfishly blathering on about her own obsolescence.

Fred's article brought up something that I'd never quite realized. Many American women try to be sexy or work at being sexy or pretend to be sexy or act in a way they think men will consider sexy. I've dated a Romanian and a Russian, and both simply were sexy. It was as obvious and natural in both cases as tallness is for a seven footer.

I'm not saying foreign women are better, per se. I'm just wondering why it is that almost all foreign women I've met have this and the overwhelming majority of American women don't.

I do live in Pittsburgh, so that might have something to do with it.

Little Ted,
I haven't the faintest idea what you are saying: unless it's "Romanian/Russian babes - wow!!!"?

(Fred from the linked article, on the other hand, seems to be saying that foreign babes are, additionally, content to breed with bitching.)

Nothing like a little positive stereotyping, I guess.

er.."without" bitching!

Regarding the Romanian/Russian comparison, we have Puritanism-gone-wild in this country on at least two fronts: religious and feminist. Women are badgered, outwardly and subtly, to think sexuality and sexy is wrong. I think that's why sexuality either comes out in blatant (and sick) ways -- in a sort of "binge sexuality" -- or there's a strong reacting against it coming out. My experience of people in eastern and western Europe is that they're closer to the guts of life -- nature, sexuality, sex, the way things work in life. We're living more sanitized, distant lives. Pass the Purell!

I think the comment about your puritanism-gone-wild is just about right. And maybe that capitalism-gone-wild has something to do with it too - especially that your culture tends to favor substitution of the real with the artificial. But then again I met an american girl a few weeks ago and was very attracted to her really american charisma. Yes, maybe the whole sexy part is a bit artificial and unique, but of course american women got a lot going for them too.

Also, maybe I'm taking this too far, but russian women do have a sexy melody of voice :) It's a bit of a tough and hard culture (in my view) and they live throuh it with warmth, strength and mystique.

I guess the stereotype is that Americans are more direct in a certain charming way; then again, this sometimes plays out in France with people immediately asking others what they do and all those other data-sucking questions to help classify a person instead of experiencing them.