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• Friday, October 28, 2005 02:53 PM

  The food is making us sick

  The so-called sustenance that Traister has now placed in front of us? Brooke Shields. Somebody send this back, please.

  I'm not suggesting that women's health issues aren't important. I just don't care for celebrity gossip being mistaken for real news. Guess what? These celebrities will do and say anything to keep their names in the news. And articles like Traister's just feed the machine. If I want to read that kind of crap, I'll go watch Traister on VH1, where it belongs.

  That said, do I feel bad for Brooke Shields? Yes, but not nearly as bad as I do for the *real* women that struggle through the same thing, except without all the resources that Shields' celebrity can afford her. Should Salon report on issues like this? Yes, of course. But why does Brooke Shields get the starring role? And why must said story be segregated into a horrifically named blog?

  The very presence of Broadsheet--like it or not--suggests that these issues aren't being addressed in Salon's main forum: where they should be. You can't have it both ways. You can't say that this is a special area for women's issues and not, by the very same logic, ackowledge that you are *lacking* in substance of those issues in the main part of Salon. My suggestion is not that the intention of Broadsheet is bad, but that it is a quick-fix poorly executed. Don't confuse the mere presence of women and women's issues (what isn't a woman's issue?) as providing a gendered analysis of important news of the day.

  I personally don't mind the pink. ;)

  —watch_this_space Read watch_this_space's other letters
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