Not All Ladies Are Lady Like!
When people talk about women’s right’s people might mention Mia Hamm, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul. What about in TV shows? People might mention Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. What about Tina Fey? People really do not think of her that often as a hero in women’s rights. She is not that first name people come up with. Tina Fey's book Bossypants is about her journey about how she got the way she is today. Bossypants shows Tina Fey's successes and failures in her life and gives tips for women while growing up. Also, talking about how she started in Upper Darby Pennsylvania going to the Pathmark then ending up in 30 Rock with Alec Baldwin! Tina Fey shows heroic quality by caring for others, stands …show more content…
Any celebrity today gets hate mail, either through online or mail, just people being rude. Tina Fey decide to share some of her hate mail with the readers. Many of them are very rude. Many called her not funny, mean and ugly in some way. To every rude internet comment Tina Fey shared with us she responded in some funny way. The reader might think she is responding in a calm sarcastic way, which comes across so funny. One example of a hate mail is when someone called Tina Fey “‘Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, bitchy, overrated troll.”’ (148). Then Tina Fey responded with sarcastic but truthful ways to look at the situation. An example was when she was explaining “pear-shaped” when she said “As for ‘ugly, pear-shaped, and bitchy’? I prefer the terms “offbeat, business class– assed, and exhausted,” but I’ll take what I can get.” (148). Even though she responds funny, and gets us all to laugh, it still shows heroism. She shows bravery by standing up for herself, by stopping rude comments on the internet. Also, by making the critic look like fools, by making them regret what they wrote. Besides Tina Fey showing heroism through protecting herself she also shows it through her ways of standing up for Women's …show more content…
Tina Fey did so much for women's rights. She got Saturday Night Live to do a Kotex commercial, she argued against Second City for why they have two women and four men on scene and did much more for women in comedy. One memorable moment Tina Fey talked about was her and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live. She was talking about how Amy Poehler was doing vulgar but she didn't remember exactly what she did. All she remembers is that Jimmy Fallon screamed “‘ Stop that! It's not cute! I don’t like that!’” (128). Tina was saying how Amy Poehler responded fierce saying she does not care. She said Amy Poehler was at Saturday Night Live to do what she loves best and do what she wanted to do, not to play the wife in the boy scene. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon respected Amy Poehler for that. That's why Tina decided to include that into her book. Also in the same chapter Tina Fey included about her personal belief on feminism. Talks about how most men in comedy say women are not funny such as Jerry Lewis and Christopher Hitchens said women are not funny according to Tina Fey. Tina Fey responds to that is “Yes. We don’t fucking care if you like it” (148). Tina Fey suggest face the sexism because it is there. She also suggests the method to go through sexism by an old Sesame Street film piece “Over! Under! Through!”. Which means if it does not affect you ignore it but if it does tackle it head on. This
When people talk about women’s right’s people might mention Mia Hamm, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul. What about in TV shows? People might mention Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. What about Tina Fey? People really do not think of her that often as a hero in women’s rights. She is not that first name people come up with. Tina Fey's book Bossypants is about her journey about how she got the way she is today. Bossypants shows Tina Fey's successes and failures in her life and gives tips for women while growing up. Also, talking about how she started in Upper Darby Pennsylvania going to the Pathmark then ending up in 30 Rock with Alec Baldwin! Tina Fey shows heroic quality by caring for others, stands …show more content…
Any celebrity today gets hate mail, either through online or mail, just people being rude. Tina Fey decide to share some of her hate mail with the readers. Many of them are very rude. Many called her not funny, mean and ugly in some way. To every rude internet comment Tina Fey shared with us she responded in some funny way. The reader might think she is responding in a calm sarcastic way, which comes across so funny. One example of a hate mail is when someone called Tina Fey “‘Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, bitchy, overrated troll.”’ (148). Then Tina Fey responded with sarcastic but truthful ways to look at the situation. An example was when she was explaining “pear-shaped” when she said “As for ‘ugly, pear-shaped, and bitchy’? I prefer the terms “offbeat, business class– assed, and exhausted,” but I’ll take what I can get.” (148). Even though she responds funny, and gets us all to laugh, it still shows heroism. She shows bravery by standing up for herself, by stopping rude comments on the internet. Also, by making the critic look like fools, by making them regret what they wrote. Besides Tina Fey showing heroism through protecting herself she also shows it through her ways of standing up for Women's …show more content…
Tina Fey did so much for women's rights. She got Saturday Night Live to do a Kotex commercial, she argued against Second City for why they have two women and four men on scene and did much more for women in comedy. One memorable moment Tina Fey talked about was her and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live. She was talking about how Amy Poehler was doing vulgar but she didn't remember exactly what she did. All she remembers is that Jimmy Fallon screamed “‘ Stop that! It's not cute! I don’t like that!’” (128). Tina was saying how Amy Poehler responded fierce saying she does not care. She said Amy Poehler was at Saturday Night Live to do what she loves best and do what she wanted to do, not to play the wife in the boy scene. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon respected Amy Poehler for that. That's why Tina decided to include that into her book. Also in the same chapter Tina Fey included about her personal belief on feminism. Talks about how most men in comedy say women are not funny such as Jerry Lewis and Christopher Hitchens said women are not funny according to Tina Fey. Tina Fey responds to that is “Yes. We don’t fucking care if you like it” (148). Tina Fey suggest face the sexism because it is there. She also suggests the method to go through sexism by an old Sesame Street film piece “Over! Under! Through!”. Which means if it does not affect you ignore it but if it does tackle it head on. This