She's The Everygirl Analysis

Amy Schumer, stand-up comedian and TV star: “She’s the everygirl—if everygirl were fearless.” The “everygirl.” This is the kind of girl, woman, female individual that ELLE’s editor-in-chief Robbie Myers explicitly states she is looking to appeal to. In April’s issue, Myers “Editor’s Letter” takes the defensive after the shocking statement that Schumer—the “everygirl herself”—resists reading women’s magazines because of the way they “make her feel bad about herself” (ELLE 92). In her counterargument, Myers throws out words like “talented,” “complex,” and “unconventional” in describing both the women they promote—like April’s cover star, Shailene Woodley—and the women they seek to reach. Attempting to support her case for the “everygirl,” Myers describes the magazine’s continuous efforts to represent not only occupational models, but additionally women who are “model citizens,” “model power brokers,” “model creatives,” and overall “model women.” Why then, should Amy Schumer, the “everygirl,” feel so offended by these …show more content…
In the article featuring Woodley, the author praised the actress as an example of an admirable celebrity by describing how she is “genuinely comfortable in her own skin,” and “loves her identity, her mind, her skin, her body,” and is a woman who “knows who she is and values herself.” The article continues on and details Woodley’s love of eating or lack of hesitation to “be unapologetically crazy” (ELLE). When the author quotes a costar of Woodley as saying that “She’s a simple person,” (ELLE) the motive of posing her as an “everygirl” becomes ever so clear. Shailene Woodley is crazy, hungry, successful and at the same time normal. Shailene Woodley also happens to be white, thin, and strikingly beautiful. Shailene Woodley fits perfectly in a full body frame cover photo. Shailene Woodley is ELLE’s