Heidi Montag is a Model of Feminist Ideals

Heidi Montag is a Model of Feminist Ideals
New York Times critic Gina Bellafante reviewed “The Hills” yesterday and called Heidi Montag a “feminist hero” because Heidi focuses more on her career and stands up to that bubble-headed dolt she’s dating. I can’t really comment on the feminist perspectives explored in “The Hills” because I only watched it once and the only thing I came away with was that the girls say “like” a lot and their voices sounded like ducks quacking. Oh yeah, and I was bored senseless.

Looking for some feminist reaction, I stumbled onto Feministing.org and discovered that Bellafante wrote a 1998 essay for Time magazine declaring feminism dead and “devolved into the silly” with “popular culture [insisting] on offering images of grown single women as frazzled, self-absorbed girls.” Soooo, are frazzled, self-absorbed girls with fake body parts, fake jobs, and fake lives the new feminist icons?

My gut tells me Ms. Bellafante was dishing out a little healthy satire in yesterday’s article. She was joking! Right?

Published 3/24/08 by

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