"Jane Neighbor"
Friday, July 15, 2016 at 3:00PM 
This Week's Must Read
"Behold Your Newest Silver-Screen Sex Goddess, Jane Neighbor"
Absolutely genius send-up of that controversial Vanity Fair profile of Margot Robbie we discussed. Or as the author herself described it on twitter, 'I wrote this profile of a female celebrity who is definitely real & not a projection of desires.' The Male Gaze just got punched in the eyeballs.
Neighbor is twenty-eight and twenty-two, at once. She is a kind of gorgeous that can only be found in or very near rivers. She is blonde but also blond, depending on the spelling. She is tall when she is on a ladder, and medium-tall when she is halfway up the ladder. Her eyelashes spell “glory.” Her naked hands can open wet jars, with just the strength of her slender fingers. She can be sexy and pointy and things that aren’t even adjectives, like glossary, or aren’t even words, like hilabrion. Her voice sounds like a truck full of rain.
This is probably my favorite parody since Nora Ephron skewered the writing in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Reader Comments (5)
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
A few writers tried to parody that interview but Rachel Axler is the best at capturing the incoherent gushing style and tone.
"I don’t remember what she was wearing, but I think it was hair? Something was on the front of her head—either glasses or a nose."
Laughter and ridicule at sexism is perhaps the best tool we have.
OMG, that paragraph alone is perfection. Hilarious.
Wow, Conde Nast. Bravo.
This parody of the VF article is my favourite: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-culture/the-profile-vanity-fair-refused-to-publish-20160707-gq14dy.html