Jennifer Weiner pwns The Literary Elite's Misogny, Part ???

I already shared this on google reader, but I just wanted to make my readership aware of the awesomeness. EBC and bestselling authoress Jennifer Weiner writes a scathingly funny take on the double-standard applied to female and male "tell-all" memoirists, a post that is already causing a stir. She targets the New York Times Book Review, which we all know is one of my favorite targets for feminist vengeance, too!

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So, just to be clear, if you’re a lady and you ‘fess up to an unhealthy online interest in an ex, you may have “lost it entirely.”

If you’re a dude and you write about, say, smoking pot with your prepubescent son, scoring coke with your daughters asleep in your car, or spewing uncontrollable diabetes-related diarrhea all over your son’s back seat, well then you, sir, have written “a bruising survival story,” or a “brave, heartfelt, often funny, often frustrating book.”

If you’re a chick who sleeps around and lives to tell (and sell) the tale, you’re greedy, vain and charmless. If you’re a guy who spends nights on end looking at Internet porn and days investing in drug companies that overcharge cancer patients for their cures, then you’re “formidably smart.”

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Read the rest here. And have a happy weekend. I'm off to see Rachel Getting Married.