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Friday, February 25, 2011

"30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own - 30 Rock - Salon.com

"30 Rock" takes on feminist hypocrisy -- and its own - 30 Rock - Salon.com: Just a few weeks ago, Fey's upcoming book of essays was excerpted by the New Yorker, one of the magazines currently under scrutiny for its paucity of female bylines. Her roaringly unapologetic feminist piece about the scrutiny, pressure and conflicting responsibilities of working mothers included some deep jabs at Hollywood's relationship to aging women, including her acidic assertion, in reference to a generation of older comedic actresses we never see anymore because they've been labeled crazy, that "the definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore."