{"id":2456,"date":"2010-08-06T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2010-08-06T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T18:45:25","slug":"marthettes-intimidatingly-perfect-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/06\/marthettes-intimidatingly-perfect-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Marthettes? Intimidatingly perfect bloggers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is odd – and more than a bit silly.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave it up to our news director Martha Foley, who’s quite a proficient blogger in her own right, if she wants to comment on this. I just thought it would be too “meta” for her to get the ball rolling in the In Box.<\/p>\n

The popular blog Jezebel<\/em> is arguing\/filling space today with:<\/p>\n

“The New Decornographers: Bloggers with Perfect, Beautiful, Craftsy Lives<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Our moms had Martha [Stewart] to make them feel inadequate. But we have a whole new generation of perfection which is rapidly proliferating online. Let’s call them the Marthettes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Writer Sadie Stein is bemoaning the appearance of perfect woman-hood on some interior decorating and lifestyle websites.<\/p>\n

I think Stein and Jezebel<\/em> deserve a hearty Bronx cheer. I mean, who cares if someone appears perfect? If their sofa cushions are just right and their kitchen\/garden\/bath is sepia-toned idyllic?<\/p>\n

And why would a website with the tag line “Celbrity, Sex, Fashion for Women” make the moronic – and destructive – argument that some women appear perfect and other women are scrambling to keep up? Unless the site and the writer point out how stupid and pointless this kind of “keep up with the airbrushed, cyber Jonesette” nonsense can be. But that’s not happening on Jezebel<\/em> today.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m pouring derision on the subject of my own posting. But I saw Jezebel<\/em>‘s “Marthettes” term picked up by Schott’s Vocab<\/a> in the New York Times<\/em> and thought someone – even it’s just little old me – should speak up and say, “Pfpfpt.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is odd – and more than a bit silly. I’ll leave it up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}