In Case You Didn't Know, Tina Fey Is Made of Awesome

Subtitle?  "Maureen Dowd Can BITE ME."

The ever-fabulous Ms. Fey was profiled in Vanity Fair this week by Maureen Dowd, who tried her VERY BEST to be a total A-hole in her questions and comments. Too bad Tina Fey is 100% awesome, and fended off Ms. Dowd's remarks like she had Wonder Woman's power bands! PEW PEW PEW!!!

Dowd's article, which manages to call Fey a "mousy brain" in the INTRODUCTION, concentrates a little too much on her (admittedly awesome) physique, starting with sourcing a Hollywood agent who met Fey through Lorne Michaels during the transition to putting Fey onscreen as well as head writer as saying, and I WISH I was making this up:

“Lorne brought her over to my house when she was head writer,” Mengers recalls. “She was very mousy. I thought, Well, they gotta be having an affair. But they weren’t. He just appreciated her talent. And now, suddenly, she’s become this sexy, showing-tit, hot-looking woman. I said to Lorne, ‘What the fuck did she do?”’

WOW. Way to keep it classy, "veteran Hollywood agent" Sue Mengers. But instead of concentrating on things that really matter, Dowd PERSISTS, talking way too many times about Fey's body, noting that Fey mentions "squeezing her butt in" her daughter's chair, that she is wearing velour pajamas, that she inherited her mother's Greek boobs and butt, came to NYC with a bad haircut, gained weight as a writer...It goes ON AND ON AND ON.

Oh, here's another fabulous quote, from SNL producer Steve Higgins.

“When she got here she was kind of goofy-looking, but everyone had a crush on her because she was so funny and bitingly mean. How did she go from ugly duckling into swan?"

Okay, I could transcribe the entire article here, including the incredibly long aside about Fey's facial scar, the result of an assault when she was FIVE, but even that doesn't get Dowd to stop harping on Fey's appearance. You really have to pick around the article to get to the nuts and bolts of Tina Fey - That she is AWESOME, brilliant, incredibly talented, a trailblazer for women writers. That she was fierce even at age FIVE when some MANIAC slashed her FACE, and that as head writer of SNL, creator of 30 Rock, writer of Mean Girls, and a wickedly hilarious performer as well, she is, perhaps, one of best role models for women today. And yes, Maureen, she's incredibly hot. But there is SO much more that I wish you would have concentrated on.

Luckily, much like Wonder Woman, Fey still comes across as the superfierce superhero she is, and Dowd comes off looking like a petty, small person. Which she is.

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Comments

[Alex]

Well said! I've been thinking those exact same things since I read the article yesterday. It was terrible.

[Barbara]

IF only Tina Fey had written that article. It would be funny and probably never mention her own physique once. Her utter lack of narcissism in regard to her sexiness is exactly what makes that woman sexy. It's so not her Greek boobs.

[Amy H]

I love Tina Fey. I wonder why more people don't watch 30 Rock because that show is amazing. And I know TF loves it so much because she puts up with BS interviews like this to promote it.

[r+k+mama]

A third of the way through this article I yelled at my computer "WHY HAVEN'T YOU PUNCHED THIS INTERVIEWER IN THE FACE YET, TINA FEY!"
The only reason I read to the end was to see if Tina would at least "accidentally" spill her glass of wine on her, but no such luck. She is classy through and through and truly made of awesome.
I however, would've totally punched her.

[Sils]

I think the reason she didn't say anything to her may have been that the really inappropriate comments regarding her physique came from people other than Fey. I'm heartbroken to read so much about a woman who is so smart and funny, but wasn't valued as a celebrity until she lost 30 pounds and started dressing differently. I hope that Fey has something to say about how her "friends" speak of her in this article.

Also, the parts where she did speak made me love her more than ever. It's totally refreshing to see someone with rules.

[michele]

i heart tina. yay for this post! it is hard enough if men only think of you in terms of your body, but when women do it too, it really hurts.