Did you hear? The Hills is coming back tonight on MTV, and after the media overload from the past week or so, we're already kind of over it (OK, that's a lie). To celebrate the show's return, the New York Times wrote a thought-provoking article about how The Hills' characters represent the feminist movement. Or something like that.
Heidi has emerged as a kind of feminist hero this season, climbing her way to a bigger position at the event-planning company where she orchestrates Nascar parties, and refusing to acquiesce to the demands of her fiancé, Spencer, that she get herself home on time. … Her groundswell of self-assertion begins when he insists on eloping, prompting Heidi to declare, 'This isn’t, like, Spencer’s relationship and you decide what we do.'
The article goes on to say Lauren Conrad, who has spent the majority of her reality TV career pining after uninterested men, could learn a thing or two from Heidi. This would be a good point if Heidi's life, job or relationship were real.
Editor
Boobs, don't forget boobs and nose. Because nothing says "feminist" like rolling around on a beach with silicone bags.
You hit it right on the nose…pun intended…Lisa.
Oh and nothing screams feminist like stepping all over your girlfriends to date a douchebag (i.e. spreading a rumor that your best friend has a sex tape).
no!!
Wow — not to mention, Lauren was actually able to recognize that her relationship with Jason was bad and terminated it. Heidi is a sad human being, and I feel sorry for her. I do hope for her sake that her relationship with Spencer is fake…
TV continues its journey into complete irrelevance.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. For the love of Chairman Kaga, kill me in the ever lovin face. Tina Fey is unfunny and this bitch is a feminist? The article was being sarcastic, right? Please! She's totally blowing someone over at the Times.
Wollstonecraft–>Steinem–>Montag
Way to make a mockery of feminism, NYT.
Yes, jujubees, The Times article is sarcastic, if not sardonic. It's far more irreverent than MollyGood gives it credit for (though I think MG is likewise attempting irony–see use of the word "thought-provoking").
I love that Heidi's family is from Crested Butte. That sounds like old English for tramp stamp.
TELL ME this shit wasn't in the fucking NEW YORK TIMES?! Please God, save us from the impending apocolypse.
That's good. I was thiiiiiiiiiis close to using my voodoo and giving everyone at the times explosive diarrhea.
Spencer must have smoked off a lot of people at the New York Times to get that in the papers.
War? Recession? Environment in peril? FUCK THAT SHIT. There's a fake reality star to talk about! I'm glad to see a newspaper finally start talking about important things. Presidents committing war crimes and citizens being stripped of civil liberties under their noses just don't sell papers these days. Hell, the only things that sell papers are sex scandals and other illicit sexual deeds. The internet has won!
The truth is that LC is the biggest fake on that show…. fake school cuz she is never there,( trust me the whole school knows when she shows up) pretending to take fashion design while is is enrolled in product development, fake boyfriend cuz Brody is dating this girl for a long time just got tired of hiding her so finally MTV had to write that storyline ….so let's be real…Heidi is not faking much she is a little low selfesteem girl (aftre a few plastic surgery) she is trying whatever she can to get her 5 min. fame. ..
If Montag is a feminist, I'm ready to hand in my chick membership.
P.S. I'm not American, but I thought the Times was meant to be a somewhat credible publication???
This is that writer's bio:
Ginia Bellafante '86 is a New York Times style reporter, writing for "Dining In," "Metropolitan" and other sections, including a recent profile of author Francine du Plessix Gray, also a Barnard alumna. Previously a writer for Time magazine, she famously penned a cover story in 1998 called "Is Feminism Dead?" which put actress Calista Flockhart's face next to feminist icon Gloria Steinem's as the new face of feminism. When Flockhart's show, "Ally McBeal," came to an end in 2002, Bellafante wrote an obit on the program for The Times .
Yes, Ally McBeal.