Mr. Pinup

Missing persons alert: Slutty women have disappeared, last seen circa the “Sex and the City” era. The suspected loose lady-napper: Feminism. The evidence: Well, there isn’t really any evidence, per se, but author Stephen Marche has a strong hunch that women are closing their legs now that feminism has won them some real-world power. In an article for Esquire, he declares this nothing short of a “disaster for men.”

You might ask: Wasn’t it just yesterday that feminist or post-feminist or post-post-feminist females were supposedly slutting it up to the detriment of civil society? That women’s looseness was being blamed for limp dicks, “Darwinist dating,” male pigs and a return of medieval masculinity? Well, despite the article’s headline — “Where have all the loose women gone?” — it seems Marche isn’t talking about all women, but rather smart women. “Brilliant, funny, and powerful women are retreating from sex as never before,” he writes. (Leaving, what, only stupid sluts?)

The only woman he successfully uses to illustrate this thesis isn’t a real woman at all — she’s a TV character: “30 Rock‘s” Liz Lemon, played by Tina Fey. “The most complicated and intelligent woman in television comedy barely ever has sex,” he writes. Not only that, but her low libido is one of the show’s “running gags.” Uh, 1.) It’s a TV sitcom that uses parody for laughs, and 2.) Some women do in fact have low sex drives – so do some men.

via Broadsheet – Salon.com.

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This month’s Vanity Fair cover story is about Tina Fey maybe you ve heard of her. The profile written by Maureen Dowd — maybe you ve heard of her — features such headline grabbers as the backstory behind Fey’s mysterious chin scar — according to her husband she was cut in her front yard by a stranger when she was five — and the fact that she was a virgin till she was 25.

More interesting than those details however is Fey’s development from writer’s room puritan with a “chord of anger running through her comedy ” as her one-time colleague Adam McKay put it into a va-va-voom leading lady. “You’re a very attractive woman ” Alec Baldwin told her at one point. “You’ve got to pop one more button on that blouse.” Much like Virginia Heffernan’s 2003 New Yorker profile, Dowd’s piece depicts Fey as a sober hard-driven deeply principled woman who is a galaxy removed from the pill-popping icons who came before her on “Saturday Night Live.” When Dowd asks Fey what s the wildest thing she s ever done she replies “Nothing.” This is after all the woman Colin Quinn nicknamed “Herman the German.” Lorne Michaels compares her to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Fey’s husband discloses the story of the worst trouble he ever got into with her He went to a strip club. “I feel like we all need to be better than that ” Fey says of the incident. “That industry needs to die by all of us being a little bit better than that.”

The sexing up of Tina Fey – Broadsheet – Salon.com.