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It's been a week and a half since the NY Times published a bitchy review of Manhattan's first J.C. Penney, penned by columnist Cintra Wilson (pictured). She received plenty of unkind words in return for her barrage of insults about the average American woman and her size 12 style. Last week, she declared on her blog that the issue has been "flame-broiled to death" (a nod to the fast food nation she targeted?), but yesterday the Gray Lady gave her a lexical slap on the wrist.
In the piece, Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, says his mother was a Penney's devotee, and goes on to publicly declare that he wishes Wilson's review was never published, saying it “would make a fine exhibit for someone making the case that The Times has an arrogant streak." Yet they go on to say the real surprise is "that Wilson’s reviews haven’t created more of a controversy before now.“ As the writer herself explains, her biting style is meant for who she believes her audience to be: “1,300 women in Connecticut and urban gay guys in Manhattan.”
Meanwhile, the department store's VP of Communications told the paper, “We found the review very offensive to our customers.” She went on to say that the average American woman wears a size 12 and weighs 150 lbs; while the shop was stocked for their regular customers, in Manhattan "smaller sizes sold out quickly, and the mix will be adjusted to meet demand." But even if more size 2 products are on the racks, will Wilson dare let Penney's polyblend graze her skin?
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Jen Carlson reporting on one of NYT's Jen Carlsons!
With a puss that would stop the Elephant Man dead in his tracks, she's making fun of plump women?
The entire NY Times newsroom is staffed by snobby bitches. And then there are the women who work there too.
Whoa!
Low blow - and you can hear those 1,300 Connecticut women (and the gay guys downtown) reeling!
I wouldn't wipe my ass with the NY Times. The editorial staff there is a bunch of self serving blowhards...
Mirrors its audience, don't you think?
eww...she's gross
Although that mug shot looks like something from the Newsday DWI files, her article was pretty funny. It summed up the feeling I get when I walk in there. Oh well... NYT found one more writer to vote off the island.
Funny thing is her jewelry screams JC Penney.
2/3 of Americans are overweight. 1/2 of those are 'obese' and 1/2 of those are 'morbidly obese'. Even the chunkiest of NYers is svelte compared to the typical midwesterner or southerner.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Are you Cintra Wilson's husband or something?
Cause you're as much of a judgmental asshole as she is!
2/3 of Americans are overweight. 1/2 of those are obese, and half of those morbidly so. The typical chunky NYer is svelte compared to those in the midwest or south.
Cattiness is a standard fashionista trait, as are expectations for size 0-2 standards, but 'mericans are truly shameless lardasses.
Her op-ed was hilarious and spot on.
Goddamnned double post
she looks cranky and scary.
iow hot and uptight
How dare she make fun of the obesity epidemic & consumerism. FOR SHAME.
I think people are more taking issue with her "Connecticut Cunt" tone.
From her blog:
"Because of my personal beliefs as a Buddhist, I very much regret that my JC Penney article in the Times caused any wounded feelings"
Yeah. I call bs on the claim of being a Buddhist, except in the sense that it's cool in certain circles to say that you're a Buddhist.
But anyway, serious, is that pic a mug shot?
Could be. She dropped out of high school, was sent to juvee and barely made her way through San Francisco State. Make me laugh to think about a juvee hall graduate looking down her nose at size 12 women and JC Penny.
Shit, man, think about it! I guess it's what they call a "way homer."
"Buddhist"?
Perhaps she means BITCHist?
And anyway, wouldn't she consider Gautama to be "obese" (and therefore subhuman?)
No doubt this writer is cold hearted, they should have edited out the mean comments. Do Buddhists make fun of people? Really?
However do not diss the Times, it has the best writing in NY and is a paper of record. Anyone who doesn't read it is missing out.
I thought it was a well written article that was honest and actually said some nice things about JC Penney. Fact is, most of the big box stores in NYC are always short on small sizes while there is an overabundance of larges and xls. Yawn.
And yeah that picture does look like a mugshot. FTW!
"I disapprove of what she says, but I will defend to the death her right to say it"
Voltaire (kind of)
her name is cintra and she has piercing black eyes that will slay all who cross her, especially those in XXL sweatpants! the devil DOES wear prada.
I think the story is emblematic of a well-founded fear that, due to gentrification, mallification and an influx of suburbanites, New York City is becoming square.
did you even look at the NYT guy that wrote the rebuttal? he was born with a wedgie and a pocket protector.
square? yes, but not exactly the run-of-the-mill ny'er IMO.
she looks coked out.
Sucking in your wrinkly old neck doesn't make you look any younger, Cruella Deville.
She looks cranky. Maybe she should eat something.
I've read her in Salon and find her to be a talented writer. It was a piece about underappreciated actors and actresses, which is a fundamentally DECENT idea also. Sometimes bitchy, snobby people are funny and talented, and you just kinda have to live with it. I'm dying to read the Penney's piece, but I'd be inclined to give her a break regardless.
The photo evokes a woman who is capable of saying.
Shut up
Fuck me
Now leave!
I'd be happy to do it exactly like that.
Actually no, we don't 'have to live with it'
NOBODY has a right to be an asshole!
I don't care how "talented" they are, everybody should treat everybody else with the same respect they expect to receive - PERIOD.
Especially folks who claim to be "Buddhists" as Cintra does!
Like the old bumper sticker says Mean People Suck.
She has no right to judge other women and think they are less than just because they aren't tiny, anorexic, underfed and ugly (inside and out) like she is!
Henry, I wouldn't fuck her with yourdick!
She has an ugly soul, is a judgmental jerk and thinks she's better than people just because she's an anorexic.
And, I'm sorry, but bitchiness is not cute - not in women, not in effeminate homosexual "men", not in anybody.
Why would you want to put your penis - the most sensitive part of your body - into this demon spawn?
I thought she'd be black....
She has a face that could stop the presses.
Cintra Wilson fucking rules. So does Blaise Kearsely, who took the photograph.
You people ostensibly have access to computers, are you really not getting any of this?