Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton.
This is some seriously multi-leveled satire. They try to take on 2 kinds of sexism: the crap you get if you subvert feminine stereotypes (shrill, cankles, boner-shrinker, etc.) and the crap you get if you adhere to them (MILF, mommy, beautiful so stupid, etc.) and present them to a mainstream audience. It’s an impossible damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t double standard.
I’m not sure how many other people will get that from watching this, they pour it on thick — but then, that’s how satire works. Some people just laugh at the impressions and not recognize the other level of commentary.
(Also, Tina Fey as Palin is frankly eerie.)
Posted: September 16, 2008 at 10:00 am.
