In a new post on Slate’s DoubleX, Emily Gould makes the claim that feminist blogs (specifically Jezebel, Salon Broadsheet and her own DoubleX) take advantage of women’s insecurities by essentially doing the opposite of traditional women’s magazines (i.e. criticizing models for being too skinny or women for being anti-feminist). Gould focuses specifically on the recent controversy around Olivia Munn being hired as a correspondent on The Daily Show (which was written about last week on Zelda Lily by Sarah Arboleda), and more specifically Irin Carmon’s Jezebel post (which has now received 100,000 views and 1,000 comments) about how the show is sexist since women correspondents are chosen mostly based on their looks. While there is a lot to take apart with Gould’s piece (which will no doubt be done to death by the aforementioned feminist blogs over the next few days), I will focus specifically on what I feel is Gould’s somewhat valid, yet completely naive argument …
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Hello, everyone! It seems that we’ve gotten off on a bit of a bad foot with this Olivia Munn business. Partly in response to some less-than-amused commenters on this site, and partly in response to Amanda Hess’s recent article Feminism For Bitches (hint — I’m the bitch), I thought it might be best to clarify some things.
I’m not “angry.” Olivia Munn rubs me the wrong way, but at the end of the day, I don’t hate her, and frankly, it’s because Olivia Munn has no real impact on my life. I don’t know her personally, she hasn’t been that big a presence on The Daily Show yet, I don’t follow her on Twitter, I don’t watch Attack of the Show and I don’t buy Maxim or Playboy. So while my diatribes on the evils of Munn were considered “out of bounds,” to some people, so too is Amanda Hess’s rigorous defense of her for the same reasons stated above.
Hess’s article has some really good points to make about how this problem with Munn is really a larger problem with society and the media and I encourage you to read it. But the biggest problem with Hess’s article is that it feeds into the idea that Munn needs to be protected — from Playboy, from bloggers, etc. — suggests that she cannot speak for herself. And it’s clear from the interviews she’s given that Munn has absolutely no problem speaking for herself.
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In her new book, Suck It, Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, poor, unfortunate Olivia Munn was tricked by evil, gross-looking photographers to – gasp! – take off her clothes for a Playboy cover article.
I’m pretty shocked, too. I never thought I’d see the day when Playboy would want their models to go fully nude. Oh. Wait. I guess Olivia hadn’t heard about how empowering posing nude for Playboy is for well-informed women and their weight loss goals.
The Washington City Paper reports the details of Munn’s harrowing experience:
When Playboy offered Oliva Munn the chance to pose nude on the cover of the magazine, she declined. When Playboy offered Munn the chance to pose clothed on the cover of the magazine, she accepted. But once Munn got to the set, Playboy’s photographer, stylist, and team of handlers staged a day-long attempt to coerce Munn into taking it all off anyway.
If only she had had a contract ensuring that they couldn’t pressure her! But wait! It turns out that she did have a contract, and yet Playboy still tried to pressure her! The scoundrels!
After signing a comprehensive contract specifying which specific areas of Munn were on-limits and off for the photographer—side boob and underboob, yes; nipple, butt crack …
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Plenty has been said here at Zelda Lily about the evils of Megan Fox. We’ve written her open letters, discussed why she’s an ungrateful bitch and considered Diablo Cody’s defense of her.
But no matter what you think of Fox, she does seem to be — for the moment, at least — on her way out of the limelight. Michael Bay replaced her in the next Transformers, and all of her non-shapeshifting robot movies have pretty much been flops.
I like Megan Fox. I don’t like her “bitches be jealous” mantra, but I like her because she admits she’s playing the stupid bombshell role half of the time because it’s what she needs to do to get jobs.
With that said, the person you ought to be worried about is Olivia Munn.
Olivia Munn refuses to let go of the smoke and mirrors and continues to market herself as the geeky hot chick with a mouth like a sailor all the while attacking angry “fat chicks” who be hatin’. In fact, Olivia is sick of people making such a fuss about successful ladies.
“When I go into this situation, I don’t think, ‘Oh, great. I’m a woman. This is awesome. I think, ‘F**k yeah, I worked my a** off and somebody recognized it. This is great! We’re all human beings in this world,” she continued. “We’re all trying to make it from point A to point B, and just trying to f***ing make it. So I think it’s really a disservice to all women when there are women out there who try to compartmentalize us as human beings, saying ‘women’ and ‘men,’ because I’m just out there.”
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