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Sady Doyle

Sady Doyle

Sady Doyle (born 1982)[1] is an American feminist author[2][3][4][5] and former journalist who lives in New York City.[6]

Education

In 2005, she graduated from Eugene Lang College.[7]

Writing

Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008 and wrote for it beginning that year; the blog ended in 2013.[8][9][10][11][7] In regard to her Tiger Beatdown writing, her critique of Liz Lemon from 2010 was oft-cited,[12][13] while Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for ThinkProgress in 2011, criticized her critique that year of the sexual violence in Game of Thrones.[14]

Doyle's first book, titled Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (2016),[15][16][10] dealt with the ways in which society, and especially the media, have built up and torn down women who defied social norms throughout history,[9][17] particularly by classifying them as "crazy" and "trainwrecks".[17] Her second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, about patriarchy, monsters, and the horror of being female, was released in August 2019.[18][19]

She contributed the piece "The Pathology of Donald Trump" to the 2017 anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, as well as contributing to Rookie - Yearbook One and Yearbook Two, and the Book of Jezebel.[20][21]

Doyle was a staff writer for In These Times and Rookie,[22][10][7] and has also written for other outlets including The Guardian,[6][9] Elle,[23][24] The Atlantic, and NBCNews.com.[9][11][25][26]

She has written extensively about sexual assault and the misogynistic abuse that many women face online,[27][28] which she has herself endured.[29][11][30]

Social media activities

In 2010, she started the #MooreandMe campaign against Michael Moore's rejection of rape allegations made about Julian Assange.[31][32]

In 2011, she started the hashtag #mencallmethings as a way to further discussion of sexist abuse received by women writers on the Internet.[33]

Also in 2011, she received the first Women's Media Center Social Media Award.[7][34]

In 2013, Kurt Metzger feuded with her and Lindy West via Facebook and Twitter during a defense of rape humor.[35][36][37][38]

References

[1]
Citation Linktigerbeatdown.com"Tiger Beatdown › #DearJohn: On Rape Culture and a Culture of Reproductive Violence". Tigerbeatdown.com. 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[2]
Citation Linkwww.washingtonpost.comMary Quattlebaum, What does feminism mean now? Wise words from Mindy Kaling, Roxane Gay and others, in The Washington Post, April 26, 2017
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[3]
Citation Linkwww.nytimes.comDave Itzkoff, A Writer for ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Becomes a Thorn for the Star, in The New York Times, August 18, 2016
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[4]
Citation Linkwww.vox.comRomano, Aja (2016-08-22). "9 prominent feminists on what Hillary Clinton's historic candidacy really means". Vox. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[5]
Citation Linkwww.newyorker.com"When Women Signify Too Much". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[6]
Citation Linkwww.theguardian.comSady Doyle, The Guardian profile page
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[7]
Citation Link//inthesetimes.com/community/profile/159877Sady Doyle, In These Times profile page
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[8]
Citation Linktigerbeatdown.com"Tiger Beatdown › Kumbaya Motherf*cker Central". Tigerbeatdown.com. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[9]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgSamhita Mukhopadhyay, Kate Harding, Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America (2017, ISBN 1250155517)
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[10]
Citation Linkwww.nytimes.comSalamishah Tillet, What We Can Learn From Women Who Break the Rules, in The New York Times, September 20, 2016
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[11]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgJennifer Culp, I Have Been Sexually Abused. Now What? (2014, ISBN 1477779760), page 18
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[12]
Citation Linktigerbeatdown.comhttp://tigerbeatdown.com/?s=%22liz+lemon%22
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[13]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgSex and Sexuality (2019, ISBN 1642821543, edited by The New York Times Editorial Staff, published by New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group), pages 185-189
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[14]
Citation Linkthinkprogress.orgAlyssa Rosenberg, Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece, August 29, 2011, ThinkProgress
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[15]
Citation Linkbooks.google.comSady Doyle (2016). Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear ... and why. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-61219-563-6.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[16]
Citation Linkwww.washingtonpost.comRon Charles, Monica Lewinsky, reimagined, in The Washington Post, August 15, 2017
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[17]
Citation Linkwww.standard.co.ukElizabeth Kiefer, What do we really mean when we call a woman a 'trainwreck'?, 28 September 2016, Evening Standard
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[18]
Citation Linkwww.penguinrandomhouse.comhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610854/dead-blondes-and-bad-mothers-by-sady-doyle/9781612197920/
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[19]
Citation Linkmobile.twitter.com"Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM
[20]
Citation Linkbooks.google.com"Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear ... and why - Sady Doyle - Google Books". Books.google.com. 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
Sep 29, 2019, 4:52 PM