Worth Noting: Salon Has Their Say on How Women in the Media are Living Now

Rebecca Traister weighs in on the what’s “been a nasty couple of weeks for New York’s writing women, both real and imaginary.”

What provokes such fury, over Carrie Bradshaw, and — for a flash — over Gould (barring a book deal and TV show that will turn her meanderings into cultural furniture) is that in a media landscape in which there are a severely limited number of spaces for women’s writing voices, the ones that get tapped become necessarily, and deeply inaccurately, emblematic — of their gender, their generation, their profession.