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[saffronlie]

It's the week for complaints about The Guardian. This interview with Keira Knightley has the journalist behaving like a sexist man-child, and goading Keira into giving him sarcastic and profane answers. He comes across to me as incredibly childish, and pushing buttons not in the interests of getting a good interview but because he's seven and wants

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[palelaura]

Wow that interview. How uncomfortable. I don't blame her for telling him to fuck off six times.

I love you for complaining. ♥

[saffronlie]

I wanted to just email the author of the piece, but couldn't find a direct email address on the website. I hope my comment gets passed along to him anyway, and the Guardian think twice before 1) letting him interview a pretty, successful young woman again and 2) passing such a sexist piece.

Complaining outside of my LJ is so unlike me! But I've recently decided that I need to be more active, especially in speaking against sexism.

[palelaura]

I guess he doesn't want to be found easily. >__<

I really hope they do take your comment into consideration. I'm sure you can't be the only one to have complained about this. The whole piece was just horribly rude to her.
I'm kind of hoping she complained too.

Well for what it's worth I think you're particularly great for complaining. ^__^

[mothergoddamn]

Yay! I hope they print it! You'll have to tell me because I only read the Metro.

I actually like that book but dude, you should read her Second Chance. I swear it's a Round Robin it's that bad.

[saffronlie]

I WAS HOPING YOU'D SEE THIS! I miss you! Post a meme!

Turns out my mother only has one Jodi Picoult. I don't know which because we lent it to my friend, who in return lent me two other Picoults (plus My Sister's Keeper). None of them are the ones you told me were good, so I'm a-scared.

[rebness]

Very, very good complaint. That's exactly how the interview came across and I'm glad you wrote that to them. As much as I love The Guardian, sometimes they get it tragically wrong.

Let's bond over our Picoult criticism!!!1

[rebness]

Sorry to come back to this - but also, on the All Women Hate Keira thing, what a horrible thing to say to her. It's inherently not true (I love you Keira, bb) and to say that to a woman in her early twenties... WTF? To demean her? Bring her down a peg or two...?

[saffronlie]

I KNOW, it's just so sexist! Argh! And, there was quite a thoughtful piece about her from The Observer, back in May, so I don't know why they needed to send this clown to bother her. I just keep going back to "would he do this to a male"? NO. Can you imagine? "Orlando Bloom, spell 'January' for me." "Daniel Radcliffe, did you know that a lot of people resent you for being the speckly Harry Potter git?" "Who'd ya spend last night with, James McAvoy?" It'd never happen

[scrr]

I think people who don't see the problem with this interview, should perhaps gender bend it - imagine a middle-aged (?) female journalist do this with (to?) a major young male star.