I wonder who ghost wrote this! I thought. It’s in this spirit of fandom that I picked up Bossypants. She’s running the show, and no one will listen to her. Even if that doesn’t describe me exactly (though, dear reader, my hips are wide!), I see myself in her. She is an overworked, unmarried woman whose hips, to her chagrin–and it seems, to everyone else’s–are a little on the wide side. Liz is a broadly-drawn character in a sitcom of broadly-drawn characters, but, as with all good satire, there’s zing of truth to her. But I digress.) My point is, a lot of women I know identify with Tina Fey, or at least with Liz Lemon, her character on 30 Rock. (Well, that’s not totally true: my hands are less mannish and more just, well, ugly: crooked and dry and wrinkly, no matter how much expensive hand cream I slather on them. She undermines her own femininity with her tongue placed firmly in her cheek. But she always does so with a wink she disparages herself, making herself the butt of the joke, so that the joke sings louder and better than you thought it would. Trump, is it awkward for you to be the boss of all these people?”” Fey loves to point out the double-standards and unfair expectations placed on women: in high school, in motherhood, in the world of entertainment. As Fey says in the prologue of her book, people often ask her if it’s uncomfortable being the boss, “You know, in the same way they say, “Gosh, Mr. It’s also a sharp commentary on being a powerful, successful American woman in 2011. But one can’t look at the photo for more than a millisecond before cognitive dissonance sets in: Wait a minute! She’s got the huge, hairy arms and hands of a huge and hairy man! It’s disgusting. Even with that jaunty black hat on, which, to me, reflects her improv/drama kid dorkdom, she is attractive, in a non-threatening, accessible way. Her auburn-colored hair is lustrous and a touch windblown, her face artfully made up, but not too much so. The photo on the cover of Bossypants embodies–in all senses of the word– Tina Fey’s comic schtick.
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