A new big trend has hit the Boob Tube and I’m so excited to tell you all about it! The time has come for women to be liberated, by going on national television shows and proclaiming that they know the cause of all the woes that modern women face… and that they are the cause! Last week, tabloid TV lawyer Lisa Bloom talked about her new book while making fun of a bunch of young women who were interviewed and edited to look stupid during some morning gossip-show grandstanding onThe Early Show, which of course is so well-known for its challenging, quality intellectual programming.
Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed Down World is Lisa’s “manifesto” which details how her life as a celebrity law-talker and TV personality is ruining the fabric of America. “The tipping point for me, as a legal analyst who covered the trial of Saddam Hussein, one of the most important international-law trials of the century, was being asked the other 95 percent of the time to weigh in on celebrity trials. It became a question of balance.” I wonder if she’s given back all that fat cash she made while making American girls stupid and vain. Considering that the book is incredibly focused on the fact that the balance of power in our country is still primarily in the hands of men, I find it interesting that Bloom doesn’t seem to care much about how “shallow and empty-headed” young men seem to be.
What’s the cure for these cases of stupid going viral in today’s female population? If you said “buy my book!”, you are probably smart enough that you don’t need to, because yes indeed, that’s the answer that Lisa presents to us. Women, she says, need to put down the tabloid magazines and start reading books. According to her book, almost 25% of young women (between the ages of 18 and 34) would give up their ability to read over their ability to stay thin. Okay, so let me get this straight, Lisa Bloom. You have written a book, specifically for women who have told you themselves that they could not possibly care less about reading books. I’m a bit confused. Is it me, or does that seem to be the epitome of the kind of stupid behaviour you are railing against?
Somehow I think that Lisa Bloom has missed the point. In the 2008-2009 academic year, more women earned doctorate degrees than men and 57% of current college undergraduates are female. Women are making it work in an increasingly education-heavy world and are still earning less than their male counterparts in 99% of all professions. Is it really any wonder that so many women don’t care about political processes and dominant news-media in which their voices are ignored and their worth devalued? How is it the fault of young women that news anchors spend more time in hair and makeup than they do actually figuring out what’s going on in the world, and that stories about war and economics are ignored to focus instead on dirty pictures and sex scandals? Here’s the straight talk, Lisa Bloom. Women aren’t stupid, but I can’t say the same thing for you and your colleagues.
