Girls Just Want to Have Fun

village voice ^ | November 14th, 2005 | Joy Press

[tbird5]

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

MoDo is everywhere: looking sultry on the cover of New York, posing in slinky stockings and red heels inside the Times magazine, and appearing on the cover of Are Men Necessary? as a flame-haired bombshell in a clingy crimson dress and matching pumps, coolly reading a hardcover on the subway as the men around her stare. OK, the last one is a pulp-noir illustration, but it clearly alludes to Maureen Dowd's persona.

I can't imagine Thomas Friedman lending himself to such treatment, but Dowd has conjured a public image that blends Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Parker. Our most influential female newspaper columnist, Dowd comes off like a brainy vamp who cuts power brokers down to size with serrated satire. So many women were disappointed by the Times magazine excerpt from her new book, in which this media provocateur coyly dispensed bedraggled platitudes about the war of the sexes.

[R. Scott]

While there are still many traditional conservative women in America who still value God and family, the "fluff" in between finding them can be discouraging. Yet they are out there.

I looked 14 years after my divorce – but I found a good one. It just takes some time.

[Boiler Plate]

I believe she is from the DC area. Oddly enough MoDo is the nickname for the local donut shop, Montgomery Donuts.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"She's like Polly Toynbee: she doesn't write so much as menstruates through her pen."

OUCH!! That's going to leave a mark!

[Leisler]

[Leisler]

If Mz MODO was sexy, she'd be selling someting on MSM. She couldn't sell steak to blind dogs.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

LOL!!!!!!!

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"She couldn't sell steak to blind dogs."

Another side-splitter!!!!

[agere_contra]

THANK YOU Leisler. Some of us are only looking for one thing when we click on these MoDo threads ... :O)

[Clioman]

Poor MoDo...she's painted herself into a corner, and the only option she has left is to whine about the paint color she choose.

[Jim Noble]

MoDo desperately needs a Briggs and Stratton-driven, self-operated marital aid.

Don't be such a sexist pig!

She just needs a new car:

[Paisan]

Me too. City girl though

[Al Gator]

And I still say:

Only thing ole MoDowdy needs is a good, old fashioned, over the knee spanking. Would set her straight, yessiree.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...but Dowd has conjured a public image that blends Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Parker....

More like a mix of the Wicked witches of East and West.

But, I only came by for the Zeta Jones pic.

[OldArmy52]

got 2 sons. smart, healthy and better looking by far that I ever was.

Been twice only to China, not being a one for travel that can be avoided.

But I will say that by far, the best looking Chinese, men & women, were those in Hong Kong that were a Chinese/European blood mix.

Very healthy, good looking mixture.