Is that article supposed to be some kind of joke? Seriously.

My two other favorite gems in the article besides the aforementioned:

"Women are definitely home-makers. We're obviously very different from men."

"I don't need someone who, like, has as much as me, but I don't want someone who has much less because then you never really feel taken care of. And it would always make a guy feel not like a man."

I don't even think I can/need to comment on what is wrong with these statements, or the entire stream of thought in that interview.

Trust that not all 19-year-olds are as thick and uninformed.

This just makes Emma Watson look so much cooler in comparison.

That entire article reads as if she couldn't string her thoughts together:

I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married.

At least until you get divorced...

Women are definitely home-makers. We're obviously very different from men.

Okaaaaay...I suppose my working class mother and all other working class/career women just missed that memo, thanks Hillary...

But everyone's looking for love, in the end. Men aren't as strong as women.

Just what the hell does the second sentence have to do with the first? And just how are men less strong than women? Cause I'm sure they have the strength to put a pie in the oven...[/snark]

ahaha, thats a good laugh for a lame monday.

And to think, I was just starting to like her.

This quote is really what did it for me:

"I think"

No sweety, I don't really think you, like, do.

"Women are definitely home-makers."

She should have a peek inside my home if she thinks all women are home-makers.

Seriously, it's sad the extent to which the backlash of the feminist movement has affected everything. Bleh.

Maybe if Emma Watson isn't 100% concerned about staying in acting, we could bribe her into opening some kind of school for the ladies of her generation to teach them about how to not be sexist, particularly, you know, in your OWN GENDER'S DIRECTION?

Oh the hell with it, make it a boot camp and give Emma a beatin' stick.

What an idiot. Is there even a brain up there?

What an idiot. I just feel sorry for her.

I agree with soupcann314. Take just one look at my place and you'll know I'm not a homemaker.

And like, I really don't think I'd, like, need a man. And I COULD, like, imagine having a girlfriend and I, like, do. :)

The article is completely immature; the language used, the thoughts, the "Im not, like, a crazy feminist" quote...just completely non-sense. You can tell she has no idea about what a feminist and the feminist movement means. She talks about relationships like its an object that you accomodate at your convenience.

She's one big disappointement, and has to grow up.

Oh no! All is lost!

It's always charming when a celebrity uses language such as "like" to make a completely incorrect point.

But, are they for real? Is this not intended to be a piece of satire? For her sake, I hope that it is because all those years at the moral police of Disney have gotten to her mind in some bad ways. Additionally, she sounds like she never learned to speak like an adult or at least a college-aged teen, which she is.

It's always charming when a celebrity uses language such as "like" to make a completely incorrect point.

But, are they for real? Is this not intended to be a piece of satire? For her sake, I hope that it is because all those years at the moral police of Disney have gotten to her mind in some bad ways. Additionally, she sounds like she never learned to speak like an adult or at least a college-aged teen, which she is.

I am thinking, given that this was the Observer, that the journalist was aware of the hole that Duff was digging for herself and just kept on handing her shovels.

Oh my. I kind of feel sorry for her, too. I hope that she grows out of it.

Sure, she's college-aged but clearly not college educated. Someone please send her a copy of Jessica's book with a kind but strongly worded note not to open her mouth again until she's read it.

Looks like someone drank all their patriarchal kool-aid!

Aside from the addressed issues, I can't get over her support of The Checklist.

Does she actually think she can find somebody who (consistently) passes the test? Not to mention what she would have to be like to pass HIS test.

It's fun to compare what you thought would be a great partner at that age and compare it to the man (or, like, girlfriend..eewww!!!) you have now.

"I suppose my working class mother and all other working class/career women just missed that memo"

It's even worse if you are actually a feminist SAHM/WAHM. Don't lump us in with them, Hillary.

Yes, it's the Observer, but it's their newish supplement for women that presupposes that all females have brains the size of peas and are only interested in handbags.

It bothers me more that any serious newspaper would set aside time to get this kind of opinion from someone so dull, when there are so many much more interesting women and men out there doing extraordinary things.

For more on the Observer Women's Monthly, btw, check out this blog which demolishes it nicely:

http://spittingmadwoman.blogspot.com

From the interview-

I was talking to a girlfriend the other day who hasn't had a boyfriend in a really long time, and she was like, 'Why can't I get a boyfriend? I'm going to write down a list of all the things I want in a guy, and I'm not going to waste my time with anyone who doesn't tick all the boxes.' And the list had everything from 'not leaving clothes on the floor' to his deep morals and stuff.

you hairy man-hating dykes need to get like, deep morals and stuff.

/sarcasm

Hillary Duff's not a person, she's a product. Like pasta sauce, or felt-tip pens. I'd guess that an interview with a box of plastic wrap would look pretty dippy and boring, too. I have to wonder how this interview even made it into print.

Remember those stories in The Onion, like "Ask Bee #H23B78019", where every answer is "bzz bzz bzz must find nectar bzz bzz"? That's what this reminds me of: ask a starlet if she's one of those icky feminists, and the answer is always "Heavens, no!" I mean, it totally goes against the product description for the eye candy to have opinions.

Wow.

I wonder whether she was aware of the interview topic or the title was added after the interview to make her look even less competent. 'Cause her comments belie no knowledge of, or even interest in, men and/or their perspectives. Perhaps the "N" at the end of the title is a typo.

wow, this maxim cover girl is a real piece-o-work. i mean i was pretty clueless at 19, but hopefully i never sounded as deluded or moronic as she does.

Her sister was on (is?) 7th Heaven--an icon of anti-feminism and white-bread American idealism in which the number one baddie? Sex.

I kinda want to kick her.

That's sad.

It's times like these when I wish that I were a celebrity, so that I could counteract the drivel coming out of mouths like Hillary Duffs.
Reading things like this make me work harder in my goal to get my teaching degree.

Fuck me! I didn't know being a feminist meant I had to be a lesbian. Like, oh.my.gawd. I better go get myself a girlfriend right away. Wow. This kid isn't just stupid, she's sad too.

It's times like these I really wish Bill Hicks' reality show "Let's hunt and kill a celebrity!" had gotten picked up by the networks.

As long as people are mentioning Emma Watson, I have to throw in (very off topic) that I've just finished Deathly Hallows and am happy to report that every single female character gets to be a total bad ass, from Luna to McGonagall to Mrs.Weasley. I don't think this counts as a spoiler ;-D

Poor Duff. That one brain cell must get lonely.

I really wonder how people graduate high school still thinking these things. It truly amazes me, do they really go through their lives so unthinkingly?

Also, cest.la.vie, your comment made me laugh out loud. :P I kinda want to kick her too.

Why is it OK for our pop icons to be decerebrate?

Why do we expect or hope that women like that will denounce patriarchy, when, in fact, it's working out perfectly well for them?

i honestly thought the article was a joke too. i mean, did that just really happen? omg...i'm in for kicking her. who are these people? and why oh why do we care for people like her so damn much? her disney show is over.

i honestly thought the article was a joke too. i mean, did that just really happen? omg...i'm in for kicking her. who are these people? and why oh why do we care for people like her so damn much? her disney show is already over.

LoL Erin, too true!

That's sad. She recently sent a video to afterellen.com- a site about the media for lesbian and bisexual women- and in the video, she specifically thanked her fans from that site and blew a kiss at the end. How strange that she would then come out with this?

SoyMilkConspiracy: HAHAHA. Yeah, that would be too much to hope for, wouldn't it?

Not everybody does, or should, think like we do. Leave her to her own opinions. C'mon, kicking her? She's a 19-year-old kid. We can only hope, for her sake, that she'll hit the glass ceiling one of these days, and a la Simone de Beauvoir, say to herself: "Wait just one motherfucking second. Why is my gender so important that I'm a woman first, and everything else second?"

Ugh, disgusting. If this is the idiot that is supposed to represent teenage girls, I really need to start working on finding a third gender, fast. One without any discerning gentalia, perhaps. Seriously, I think this addresses the problem that there are unfortunately, a lot of young girls looking up to this dimwit. And if she says that she 'couldn't imagine having a girlfriend', and that 'women need men', than those girls will echo those same sentiments. And since Ms. Duff is a product of money, meaning she's heard loud and clear, those girls will enforce their feminine mystique values on the masses, who will believe it because Hilary Duff is a 'cute', and a typical girl, or something. (Like there's such a thing as a typical girl). Besides, women don't need men. They need vibrators.

The only thing surprising about her is that she is 19 years old, as opposed to, say, 14 years old. Her sentence structure, her lack of any connection from one thought to the next...no Yale Drama School for this one!

I wonder if there will ever be a study to discern the effects of tutors and non-traditional educational methods on young performers. Given the substance abuse problems and behavioral issues of so many "child stars," it seems a fair assumption that many of them fare intellectually and judgmentally poorly from a lifestyle that makes them materially wealthy. Alas, as they are products, as another poster rightfully noted, it matters not to their corporate masters if some later turn out defective -- they'll just make another model. Still, it is a waste of resources that they aren't better educated.

If she were mean and anti-feminist in a concerted, CWA-type way, I could at least get that she'd thought about something and made a decision. Her Disney Princesses view of gender roles just strikes me as pathetic and weak, not worthy of anything other than condescending derision.

Hilary Duff's music is as vapid as she is. She said some stuff that offended me deeply. Like this little quote for an example:"I don't want someone who has much less because then you never really feel taken care of. And it would always make a guy feel not like a man."

If you're not selling out to the music industry with your melodic drivel then you're an emasculated loser..Nice. She really has no clue about the real word, feminists, or the modern man for that matter. She lives in a fantasy world like many other women of my generation who have backlashed against feminism and became fembots instead.

"'I suppose my working class mother and all other working class/career women just missed that memo'

"It's even worse if you are actually a feminist SAHM/WAHM. Don't lump us in with them, Hillary."

It's especially bizarre when a woman with a non-housewife job herself says stuff like that.

why did the last line

Stranger is released on 20 August. The album Dignity is out now make me laugh out loud?

Heather-Nan, that's not her sister, that's Jessica Simpson's sister, the legendary, Ashely

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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This has got to be a joke... seriously, anyone who's taken a course in basic writing will recognize just how poorly-thought-out the "interview" is. She's rambly and contradictory and she just does not sound intelligent. I can't believe a publicist worth his/her salt would let her do this to herself if it were serious...

No, her sister was on 7th heaven too (hayley/haylie?).

OH, So 7th Heaven is the official drop off for sister of pop stars?

Very few times has an album been so misnamed as was Duff's "Dignity."

(By the way, Lindsay Lohan arrested for drunken driving and cocaine possession less than two weeks out of rehab. Paris Hilton just got out of jail and never finished HS. Nicole Richie is headed for jail and is, I think, pregnant.)

Much more positively, since she was referenced more than once earlier, the following is a quote from an interview with Emma Watson that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald:

re: Hermione --
"We're both feminists, we're both very stubborn, both very determined and quite loyal. If I have a friend then I stay through to the end."

The choice of role model(s) should not be a difficult one.

This makes me especially happy that I have a former teammate who played roller derby under the skate name Hillary Muff.
Extra giggly.

I've begun to suspect that the reason this young woman (and the various other celebrities like her) are famous in the first place is because they are the perfect embodiment of what our current culture considers the “ideal woman.� She's young, blonde, rich, vapid, sexy (as defined by porn, naturally), submissive, and a willing (even eager) participant in her own subjugation. She's not particularly talented nor exceptionally attractive—which leads me to conclude that the reason she's famous is because she fits the role so very well.

Honestly, it's gotten to where you can barely tell any of these women apart anymore. They've all blended together into one giant bimbo caricature of what a woman supposedly is. At least to me, anyway.
It's incredibly sad.

It sort of reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where everyone is required to have plastic surgery to become attractive, but they only have a handful of “attractive� templates to work from, so you go in and pick “female #5� etc. Everyone looks great, but no one is unique. Then again, they at least got to keep their individual personalities...

My only hope for the future is that eventually people will grow bored of these prepackaged plastic Barbie dolls and start craving a little variety in the looks and personalities of the female of the species again, and things will swing back the other way.

Ohmigod, like, voting makes you totally break out.

It amazes me the most that she still wants to date someone who can provide for her. What the fuck? You're Hilary fucking Duff; you can (and probably have) bought your own damn house.

"I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies."

Oh sweet christ.

I don't think it has anything to do with her being 19. It has everything to do with her being dumb, which is why she's in the profession in the first place. Celebrities are all personality disordered idiots, and Hollyweird the biggest shame liberals have.

I don't think it has anything to do with her being 19. It has everything to do with her being dumb, which is why she's in the profession in the first place. Celebrities are all personality disordered idiots, and Hollyweird is the biggest shame liberals have.

Wow that's pretty scary. Is it drugs or did Disney do a lobotomy? Maybe they just kept her under lock and key for so long she knows nothing about reality.

OH c'mon you guys. She's like one of the only young female adults in the entertainment business who isn't partially living in rehab. I admit, her remarks were much more than being ignorant, but she's still a better role model than, say Lindsay Lohan.

OH c'mon you guys. She's like one of the only young female adults in the entertainment business who isn't partially living in rehab. I admit, her remarks were much more than being ignorant, but she's still a better role model than, say Lindsay Lohan.

Um, i don't really think not being in rehab really makes someone worthy of being a role model. Yeah, her remarks were much more than being ignorant, which is counterintuitive when looking for a role model.

I'm not sure that "not being in rehab" is a reason to be a role model. The whole "remarks were much more than ignorant" think means that she SHOULDN'T be a role model. Om fact. that's very much the opposite of what I think girls should be looking for in a role model.

Oh, and I'm not sure that age has a whole lot to do with it, as my sister is 16 and identifies as a feminist.

At a time when the need has maybe never been greater (need for good role models for young women), we as a society are going to set the bar at the high standard of not being in rehab and/or jail?!

Duff is a better role model than Lohan the same way a head cold is better than the flu.

"I do manipulate men when I feel like it."

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

Lol, this coming from one of the many starlets who has dated Wilmer Valderama, who referenced Mandy Moore on Howard Stern with his famous "sex with a virgin does not feel like apple pie" comment. I wonder if that is her ideal man?