{ Monday, January 16, 2006 }
One of my vices is trashy biographies, and the latest one I read was Martha, Inc. about Martha Stewart in which the author -- one of her former neighbors from Westport no less-- was really going out of his way to make her look bad. And it confirmed my suspicion that Martha gets a lot of flak because she is a powerful woman, as she's said elsewhere: her same aggressive business style would be praised in a man. The book doesn't give her any credit at all for her achievements or business acumen, or interview any people that were her allies. And she really did build an amazing media empire, with books, TV shows, products, and of course her magazine -- and created an entire industry: the Lifestyle industry, which has spawned impresarios such as P. Diddy, aka Puff Daddy, aka Sean Combs. The only person who is a Martha fan who was interviewed for the book appears to be Richard Sheingold, the man who took on her television proposal after her own publisher, Time Warner, had turned her down.
In time, Sheingold invented a word for what they were doing to her. He didn't share the word with anybody, but it popped into his head every time he heard them belittling and dismissing her, in that certain way that would make Martha's jaw set and her face go cold. ...'Chick-ing' her. They didn't understand that "chick-ing" her was why Martha was not standing in Richard's office, trying to get her idea for a TV show based on a Time Warner magazine syndicated in TV by one of Time Warner's own competitors. Chick-ing Martha Stewart was a mistake.
Of course later on Time Warner comes to deeply regret their error, which gave me cause for glee, as I've been 'chicked' innumerable times myself, and boy does it make me mad.
LINK | 3:57 PM | TB
I (heart) Caterina. You're such a hero! (or do I still say heroine?) How about cultural luminary, hi-tech mentor, and super-blogger friend? Note to the world: don't ever 'chick-Caterina'!
jmv | January 21, 2006 10:28 PMI'm a fan of Christopher Byron, the author of "Martha Inc.," and he's more than a neighbor of Stewart's who decided to dish. He's one of the best curmudgeonly reporters writing about the stock market today, producing a lot of scathing and prescient writing on the tech industry before the dot-com bubble burst.
I haven't read this book, but I'd be extremely surprised if Byron's tough scrutiny was motivated at all by gender. As far as I can tell, he's tough on everybody.
Rogers Cadenhead | January 23, 2006 12:08 PMThe thing about being "chicked" is that it can have the effect of making you feel crazy if you're not as strong as Martha or you don't have other people around you who notice what is happening. When you work in an old-school white male corporation, it's almost a knee-jerk reflex on their part. I just sold a regional magazine for women that I started 12 years ago to a large media company. I stayed on under a contract and I get "chicked" routinely--even though I developed a product they thought was good enough to pay me a large amount of money for. Go figure.
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I (heart) Martha Stewart.
Ariadna | January 17, 2006 7:01 PM