Tina Fey on Kim Kardashian

I had initially refrained from dignifying Ms. Kardashian’s, as far as I can see, pointless publicity stunt with any further attention than it has already received. After all, there really isn’t a lot of nuance to explore. But this is just funny enough to pass along, presciently published, it should be noted, in Fey’s 2011 Bossypants:

I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful.

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UPDATE: For those interested in a refreshingly deflationary take on this non-event, as well as some useful reflections about all the vapid hullabaloo surrounding it, read this at Huff Post. (I have to say, to me the only thing at all remarkable about the whole affair is the staggering narcissism on display with the suggestion that photos of her naked body could in any way even approach “breaking the Internet.” I mean, huh? The Internet survived your sex tape, Kim, which consumes a lot more bandwidth, by the way; be assured, it will survive this as well.)

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Tina Fey on Kim Kardashian — 2 Comments

  1. Thanks for raising the issue, Alex, which is real and alive in our culture. I am not convinced, however, that it is at work in this excerpt (cannot speak for the entirety of Fey’s work, with which I am not familiar). The second paragraph explicitly disavows the first, both its content and its rhetorical presentation. Furthermore, in the second, “Caucasian blue eyes” are placed on the same level as various other stereotypically racialized physical attributes, all of which are reduced to the equivalent of “doll tits,” which is to say, completely idiotic.

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