Thursday, November 22, 2007

Daphne Merkin and the Floppy Vaginal Lips of Doom

Over at Slate, Daphne Merkin heart Californication star David Duchovny. In fact, Daphne heart David so much that she writes to him like this:

“Maybe it's the way you seem to be both the ultimate feminist and the ultimate sexist all at once: someone who understands women's plight—their need to inflate their breasts, denude themselves of pubic hair and assure themselves that the male gaze isn't passing them by because of age or floppy vaginal lips—while at the same time taking advantage of those very anxieties. It's as though you identify with women enough to occasionally ally yourself with them, without selling yourself out as a de-eroticized "softie," a pal instead of a lover.”

Yes, she got paid for it.

2 comments:

Peter Nellhaus said...

That her last name is Merkin makes this especially funny.

Anonymous said...

Actually, she's pretty bang-on about Duchovny's appeal to women: one part bad boy, one part sensitive new age guy.