I love Entertainment Weekly.  I look forward to getting it every Saturday (or Monday depending on the laziness of my mailman).  What I didn’t love though was Lisa Schwarzbaum’s review of New Moon.  She gave the movie a B+, which is fine I suppose (haven’t seen it yet), but here’s what really disturbed me.  When talking about Taylor Lautner, the seventeen year old kid that plays Jacob, she describes him as “one tasty chunk of vealcake”.  Seriously?  Eww.

Now before you get all “you don’t know, you haven’t read the books, and anyway he’s hawt” on me (For the record, I did read all four books.  Being the parent of two preteen girls will drive you to read some odd lit), consider this:  If a respected journalist decided to write that some female seventeen year old movie star is, I don’t know, what’s the disgusting equivalent of tasty chunk of vealcake, “tender vittles”, how exactly would it be viewed?  All you have to do is look at the furor over that equally vile Miley Cyrus cover and you’ll see.  But since she’s sexualizing a male teen, there’s apparently nothing wrong with it.  If you think I’m taking the quote out of context, here’s another gem from Ms. Schwarzbaum’s review:  “I wish Jacob, endowed with Lautner’s lithe bod and Matt Damonesque grin, had more of a chance with Bella”.

I’ve really enjoyed Ms. Schwarzbaum’s reviews in the past, but this one made my skin crawl.

Yiddish Word of the Moment:

Shandeh: Shame, Disgrace