All posts tagged "Maureen Dowd"

A New York Times editorial published on Independence Day ripped into Donald Trump by drawing a stark comparison between the president and the first man to hold his current office, George Washington.

Maureen Dowd spoke with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, about his views on Trump as opposed to Washington.

"[Washington] had this natural gravitas and dignity that I think is really essential to the office," said Chernow. "And now we have a president who, I suspect, has probably never read a history book.”
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was forced to publish a retraction on Wednesday after falsely attributing anti-gay remarks to the wife of New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. According to New York magazine, Dowd decontextualized a quote by de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray to read like an indictment of mayoral candidate Christine Quinn's lesbianism. Dowd, for her part, blamed the misunderstanding on the fact that she interviewed McCray in a noisy coffee shop, but a recording of the interview tape now being circulated makes it clear that what McCray was saying was actually quite intelligible.

Sometimes, when I joke about how weddings are a big deal because they constitute a woman's inclusion into the human race after being sponsored in by a man, I think to myself, "Amanda, perhaps you're engaging in hyperbole. For while it's creepy that so many people obsess over weddings and marriage, surely even conservatives don't think unmarried women are subhuman, do they?"

I didn't see this yesterday, and for which I feel a mixture of regret and gladness that I had one day more on earth without knowing that Maureen Dowd prefers to masturbate while thinking of douchebagy frat boy types over the sexy nerds. Not that I judge her preference, of course. Part of me is pleased that feminism has reached a point where women are free to express their trashy sexual fantasies instead of always insist that their libidos line up with the social expectations of who they should mate with. Dowd clearly has felt a lot of pressure throughout her life to nest with some skinny nerd with an Ivy League education, and she's rebelling by having dreams that shockingly resemble this:

Maureen Dowd writes a lot of short sentences.

This Vanity Fair profile of Tina Fey is both intriguing and unbelievably irritating, because Maureen Dowd wrote it. Dowd is more than a little obsessed with Fey's looks (though it's depressing but interesting that Fey had to lose 30 pounds and learn to ape the sexy librarian look before she got to be on TV---it's the sort of thing that makes even the most ardent feminist stick to salad if she wants to get anywhere in this world), and it even seems like Dowd really can't comprehend a woman who has a big but not ugly scar on her face who might not really care that much about it. She quotes "30 Rock" against Fey, her friends, and her husband's relative indifference to the scar, as if it reveals the real truth.