HW: 28 Virginia Woolf speaking out on “Intelligent Women”
“With Apologies to Virginia Woolf”
As I was browsing the internet for something of value I stumbled upon an article that made me turn all shades of green. I was on the celebrity blog, Jezebel. There was an article called Cover Lies: ELLE’s “Intelligent Women” Issue is Kinda, Well, Dumb. ELLE magazine had an “intelligent women” article where they spoke of celebrities, hair stylists, make-up artists, as intelligent women. There are millions of intelligent women on this earth, scholars, poets, authors, and so on. This magazine that is speaking to the women of our country is displaying our hair stylists as the intelligent women of the world. Now I’m sure these women are smart people, but there is just many people that have achieved so much more. Natalie Portman went to Harvard, so what, so did a million other people, it doesn’t make you such an intelligent person that you should have an article on how intelligent you are. I think that the world has so many intelligent women and this article down plays that fact and it makes me ill.
