On having a busy schedule and meeting Oprah:īetween setups I sat with my daughter on my lap and watched Governor Palin on YouTube and tried to improve my accent. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.
If you don’t have a good body, you’d better starve the body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye your skin orange, inject your lips, sew on some hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. It’s like when you renovate a house and you’re legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. Now if you’re not “hot,” you are expected to work on it until you are. On the increasingly rigid standards of beauty for women : To avoid a gushing (and boring) fangirldom review of each chapter of the book, I’ve instead rounded up a few excerpts to give you an idea of what it contains and let you decide for yourself whether or not you should run out and buy it (you should). And you have the chance to view photos like this one of a teenage Tina Fey in a white denim suit, from the section where Fey discusses “becoming a woman” (label added by me): You just have your thoughts about her-assuming that you thought she was a hilarious, charming, witty person-more than confirmed. Alec Baldwin even more fervently than I once did), but you don’t close the book feeling like you *know* Tina Fey any more than you did before. The behind-the-scenes work stuff is great (I now dream of becoming Mrs.
Though billed as a memoir of sorts, it’s clear that Fey is holding back a little here, keeping an ironic distance from some of the more personal content (she even uses jokey fake names for her husband). In trying to come up with some criticism of Bossypants (with the help of a few other Bitch staffers who read it this weekend fell similarly in love), I’ll just say that I wish there was even more. It also made me cry tears of laughter, which made the burly dudes on either side of me visibly uncomfortable. Note to others who might make a similar decision: Bossypants made my trip go by very quickly. I rode on a plane over the weekend, and since I love excuses to buy shiny new hardcover books (and I do not love air travel), I got a copy of Tina Fey’s Bossypants to take along.
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