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November 6, 2006

Hypocrisy 101

Toronto Star demonstrates the correct method for calling a woman a bitch
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Barbara Amiel: Lady Black or Cruella De Vil?
Bower argues the latter while slathering on salacious details of what he claims are Amiel’s many sexual conquests.
Yes, there is a laundry list of leg-overs printed here...
And Bower casts her as frequently, and nastily, ill-tempered, screaming, he writes, at her senior butler: “Andrew! The towels are in the wrong place!”
This recalls Leona Helmsley foaming over water droplets on the lettuce, Martha Stewart excoriating her husband for failing to stack firewood with precision and Joan Crawford’s murderous anger should anyone make the mistake of placing a wire hanger in her closet.
It is, writes Bower, Andrew the butler who would take new household staff up to the roof of the home at Cottesmore Gardens in London. “Make sure the landing lights are on at all times,” the butler would instruct, “because Madame takes off from here on her broomstick looking for cats. She needs the lights to guide her return.”
So that's how it's done, kids... But then I guess it also helps if the woman in question is already reviled in media circles.



That bitch, the great Joan Tintor, nails it. I expect to see Judy Wasylycia-Leis, Dawn Black, and the gang denouncing the Star in the strongest terms for splashing these hateful, sexist slurs -- along with Cruella Lady Black's sexual history, we are treated to leering remarks on the size of her breasts, her taste for shopping and other attacks on all women everywhere -- across its front page. I expect questions in Parliament. I expect furious letters to the editor. After all, these are the kinds of vile, hurtful comments that could deter women from marrying publishing tycoons.
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