Confabulous » fempire http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Polarized response to the “fempire” http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Confabulous » fempire http://www.confabulous.ca Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:09:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Polarized response to the “fempire” http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/03/polarized-response-to-the-fempire/ http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/03/polarized-response-to-the-fempire/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:16:15 +0000 Sabine http://confabulous.ca.s59391.gridserver.com/?p=450 photo by Amy Dickerson for the New York TimesOver at Women and Hollywood, there's a tidy little roundup of the discussion going on at various ladyblogs about the Fempire article that appeared in last week's New York Times (whoa, that sentence is getting meta on meta). The piece is about Diablo Cody and her three BFFs, fellow women film writers Dana Fox, Liz Meriwhether, Lorene Scafaria. For a really non-controversial article, this story has a remarkable amount of staying power. Clearly there is something about professional women banding together to advance their careers that is striking a chord among some and raising the ire of others. It's really interesting that a group of four female friends with matching necklaces who have had varying degrees of career success can be so culturally polarizing. Why is that? And why are good-looking women still having their professional success attributed to their appearances?

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