{"id":3294,"date":"2010-05-31T20:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T19:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2010-05-31T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T19:13:25","slug":"the-fine-art-of-critical-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"The fine art of critical writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Leading on from the last post, it seemed logical to look at a good example of professional writing. Instead, though, I&#8217;d like to share an excellent example of <\/em>critical<em> writing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lindy West\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/burkas_and_birkins\/Content?oid=4132715\" target=\"_blank\">This review<\/a>, by Lindy West, of Sex And The City 2 (or SATC2) if you&#8217;re in to acronyms, is brilliant on a number of levels.<\/p>\n<p>Written incisively, Lindy West peels back various layers of the main characters, whilst asking pointed questions of the film&#8217;s motives. She also does a sterling job of exposing, to total ridicule, the shallowness of the SATC franchise.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to read the thoughts of Germaine Greer (a woman whose intellect I adore), on the death of feminism and the value of the &#8216;liberated women&#8217; who use feminism as a means to sleep around and wrap themselves up in the motivation that being liberated means aspiring to buy designer clothes and shoes in any colour they choose, as portrayed in SATC2.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I know that Professor Greer has far too much sense to even go and see this film.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you don&#8217;t go and see it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading on from the last post, it seemed logical to look at a good example of professional writing. Instead, though, I&#8217;d like to share an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}