My head is still reeling.
Steve Martin tweets this:
When I was a young man, Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. She turned out to be witty and bright as well,
What a lovely tribute to the iconic "Princess Leia," who died on Dec. 27 at age 60.
Uh-uh–not if you're a media feminist. In the world of media feminism, a man's calling attention to a dead woman's beauty is…blatant sexism. It's the "male gaze," you know. So Martin's Twitter tribute provoked this tirade from New York magazine's Claire Landsbaum:
[R]emember Fisher for her immense talent, her outspoken feminism, and her moving commentary on mental health — not for the way she looked onscreen.
And this sark-tweet from actress Lisa Friedrich:
Carrie Fisher was the most beautiful little girl with bare feet I had ever seen in the kitchen – Steve Martin.
At the Huffington Post, media analyst Cavan Sleczkowski flat-out called the tweet "sexist."
So, well, Martin caved to the bullying and deleted his tweet-memorial.
You can't fight media feminism, I guess.
And they say there's no war against heterosexual men.