[lbo-talk] Jezebel + Alcohol + Stage = Prolonged Tweenage Wasteland

[Dwayne Monroe]

Like the multiple threads about Heidegger and his on again, off again
fondness for the Horst Wessel song, what follows will only be of
interest to a few.  But I suspect that few includes the listmom so I'm
burning bandwidth like it's 1999!

...

Shock! Dismay! Indignation! Sexy-Drunk New Feminists vs. Arthritic
Clones of Steinem!

These, and other exclamation pointed reactions recently swept over the
Internet's American zone like a Martian dust storm.  The catalyst?
Video of Tracie, "Slut Machine" Egan, and Maureen, "Moe" Tkacik -- two
of Jezebel.com's most popular bloggers -- appearing on comedy writer
Lizz Winstead's interview show, "Shoot the Messenger".

Damning excerpts:

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lizz-winstead/jezebelism_b_110903.html>

The full vid -

<http://www.shootthemessengernyc.com/index.php?/behindthescenes/jezebelism_my_interview_with_moe_and_tracie>

One reaction:

<http://jessandjoshtalk.blogspot.com/2008/06/gloria-steinem-is-dinosaur.html>

Another reaction:

<http://karion.tumblr.com/post/41547696>

In short, Tracie and Moe got drunk, said some embarrassingly
disturbing things and generally behaved like mumbling jabrones (Lizz,
our host, wasn't at her best either but at least she remained
coherent, if exuberantly shout-tastic). From one point of view, all
this is quite alright, being the sort of thing you do while young.
Then again, these women are almost 30; maybe it's time to talk like
grownups and wait till after the show to get shitfaced.

I have to admit that this performance reinforced my growing impression
of the two as very smart, but half-assed.  For me, the scales were
tipped towards the weary side by what seemed like Moe's 10,000th post
on sorta-politics and maybe-feminism -- distractedly touching on this
and that (China = sweatshop, Middle East = Burka, 'Dudes' = bad,
except when it doesn't, Phila = burning warehouse fires, except when
it doesn't because of all the cool people I know there, etc) with a
curious combination of youthful know-it-all-ism, self deprecating
boasting, apology-free apologia and almost wholesale acceptance
(though in a snarky, 'I'm not a sucker' way) of mainstream media
relayed stories. (I know Chavez is a threat: MSNC told me).

There may be some larger point here, something to do with the Clash of
Feminist Waves or ageism or the misuses of alcohol.

No, probably not.

.d.

-- 
"That child is a spinning murder top! Are you sure he's your son?"

Dr. Z

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