![]() Television has an interesting “precariat of chick TV,” right now - Girls, 2 Broke Girls, and Broad City, the latter actually being the first, as it appeared as a webseries in 2009. These shows have more of a male audience than the books, probably because they turn much more on raunchy humor. This fall, the University of Illinois Press will release the awesomely titled Cupcakes, Pinterest, and LadyPorn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, an edited collection about trends in “women’s” genres and media consumption. Suzanne Ferriss discusses “the precariat of chick lit,” the white, college-educated protagonists of books (and now films) such as Bridget Jones ’s Diary, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and The Devil Wears Prada, who are struggling to find their places professionally in the precarious economy. ![]() ![]() More specifically, I think it is part of an emergent late-20th- and early-21st-century genre. Broad City certainly fits into that category. But I have a particular affection for popular culture made by and for women. REBECCA WANZO : I often say that I’m a “genre whore” - I am capable of loving all kinds of genres. So why do I find Broad City - which many feminists and academics love - so off-putting?Ī few themes I want to hit on here: respectability, abjection, comedy, envy. We both watched Banshee for instance, and we both love Longmire, though I don’t want to be too reductive about what kind of person watches what. You and I are feminists and professors and women of color - differently situated in all of those categories - and we’ve also bonded as fellow lovers of forms of television that are not imagined to be “for” those demographics. ![]() KYLA WAZANA TOMPKINS : Rebecca, here’s why I wanted to write this with you: I had a moment on Facebook when I realized that almost everyone I know (and love) loves Broad City, and I hate it. ![]()
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