tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post8683491363019389446..comments2023-12-31T20:43:08.499-05:00Comments on THE STILETTO GANG: Interview AnxietyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-71078073645666492342013-06-28T11:01:08.935-04:002013-06-28T11:01:08.935-04:00"usually" in comment above on how I can ..."usually" in comment above on how I can usually make myself look bad on my own. Appropriate, what?Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-48825821990211713492013-06-28T11:00:03.481-04:002013-06-28T11:00:03.481-04:00Mary, so glad your reporter made you look good. I&...Mary, so glad your reporter made you look good. I've never felt that was their job, though. Just don't make me look artificially bad. I can use manage that on my own, thank you very much. ;-)<br /><br />I, too, have found that, when feminism is discussed in a mixed-gender group under circumstances where we're actually all looking at what it really is and what it really means, usually just about everyone decides it's the way things ought to be. But the opposition litters that road to understanding with a lot of misleading buzzwords, distortions, and outright Big Lies. *sigh*Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-81551241662539913752013-06-28T10:55:46.340-04:002013-06-28T10:55:46.340-04:00Julie, I know. The vast majority of interviewers I...Julie, I know. The vast majority of interviewers I've had over the years have been good about accurate and not misquoting. I've had some print interviews with quotes taken out of context but not misquoted. This Fox interview was a whole new kind of hell. And I couldn't believe it when they aired it again!Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-80250158048431071172013-06-28T10:28:09.648-04:002013-06-28T10:28:09.648-04:00Lovely article! I've actually had the reverse...Lovely article! I've actually had the reverse, following a very rushed phone interview about storytelling. I was literally on the way out the door when the phone rang, and gave very hurried answers because I was running late. As I drove to wherever, I replayed the conversation in my mind and realized most of my answers would seem illiterate in print. I was grateful that the reporter had edited to what I would have said if I'd had time to think.<br />I once had a student (wisely) stop herself as she was about to share an anti-feminist joke (favorite, activist student, playing the part of Portia in Merchant of Venice). She asked, "What is feminism really?" and as we discussed, the rest of the Shakespeare class arrived and continued the discussion. "Equality? No, there has to be more." One of the young men looked up feminist in the dictionary, read it aloud, and they all voted that they were, in fact, feminists. We have made progress!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-18435170525390327182013-06-28T09:32:24.850-04:002013-06-28T09:32:24.850-04:00Congratulations on the two interviews, Linda! Goin...Congratulations on the two interviews, Linda! Going to read Cosmo now!<br /><br />As someone who's usually on the interviewer side of the interview, I try really hard to make sure I accurately represent the people I've interviewed. I know reporters sometimes make mistakes, but outright ambush is just wrong.Julie Tollefsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01579825918764925361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-50352120312311942182013-06-28T09:19:34.807-04:002013-06-28T09:19:34.807-04:00Michael, don't you hate that? When you make a ...Michael, don't you hate that? When you make a point of stressing to them, "Not this because of such-and-such. Please be clear to call it/me that." And even the best of them often overlook it in their notes and do exactly what you were trying to avoid.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1025201337316610324.post-81458353568610307882013-06-28T08:24:48.072-04:002013-06-28T08:24:48.072-04:00in the build-up to one of the commemoratives of th...in the build-up to one of the commemoratives of the 1970 Chicana Chicano Moratorium that we coupled with futile opposition to Bush's impending invasion of Iraq, I specified to an interview I am a Vietnam-era Veteran, asked him directly not to call me a "Vietnam Veteran" because I put in my time in Korea while my friends were over in the war. When the article comes out, there it is, "a veteran of the Vietnam war" the journo wrote. I wasn't a vetern of the moratorium, either; got home from Korea the day before the police riot in Laguna (now Salazar) Park.msedanohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09527530005391318421noreply@blogger.com