Thursday, July 12, 2007

Monday, July 02, 2007

And good-looking too


Yes, from the CBC archives: An interview with Gloria Steinem from her New York apartment in Nov. 1968 about the New Journalism, about reporting with compassion and learning to say "I".

Being a female writer is controversial and very exotic at the time which is all too obvious from the way Steinem is being interviewed:

The topic of her journalistic undercover work as a Playboy Bunny gives rise to just one question from Moses Znaimer, the interviewer: "I thought Playboy Bunnies were supposed to be stacked - how did you get the job?" Also Znaimer is curious to know: "How many ladies' things do you like doing? Do you cook?" No, she doesn't cook, but she is ironing a shirt while they're talking, and Znaimer seems happy be able to announce that she does that exceptionally well.

Finally we're back in the studio where another host wraps up by characterising Gloria Steinem as "a heck of writer" - and "not a hateful looker".