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Anna Breslaw

has written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Jezebel and elsewhere. She lives in Fort Greene with a ceramic dalmatian.

Essays & Reviews

The Unfuckables

By Anna BreslawMay 10, 2012
Comedians like Tina Fey pretend to be plain to avoid the trap of being dismissed as being too pretty to be funny. This can spill over into a slut-shaming tendency that belies their faux feminism
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