Mocking women-targeted media

I have a new internet crush. Her name is Sarah Haskins and she does an awesome segment on Current TV called "Target Women." The feminist blogging community caught on to her a while back, so I'm a little late in the game. However, I'd though I'd spread the word to the 5 people who read my blog and might not have heard about her yet. She's a former Second City comedian who offers witty, hilarious, feminist commentary on the way women are targeted by the media and advertisers for a variety of products and such as household cleaners, birth control, vampires, skin care, Disney princesses, and, my personal favorite, products that help you go poo.

Here's the segment that started the internet buzz - yogurt.

Best line? "It's that 'I have a master's but then I got married' look!"



I also love her take on feminism as a female comedian, which she described in an interview with a Chicago comedy blog:

Yes, I’m a feminist. It is an extension of my lifelong war against pantyhose.

To me it means that as women we are individuals before we are gendered people and that we’re not defined by our gender except in the ways we chose to appropriate that definition.

We’re in a weird generation, right? Our Moms were forced to grapple with that definition more immediately, and I think it’s changed as we’ve grown up. The core issue "how do I fight bias against me because of my gender" is still there but has gotten more complicated and wrapped into all kinds of identity issues about how you present yourself as a woman and I pretty much think it's your choice and fuck pantyhose. So, hence my answer above.

Jezebel also did an interview with her where she expressed her love for both Gossip Girl and Joan Didion. *Sigh* Why can't she live in DC and by my friend?

Get this woman on the daily show, stat!