Australian actress Margot Robbie is August's Vanity Fair cover star, and boy did the magazine mess this one up. Writer Rich Cohen pulled out such winning lines as “she can be sexy and composed even while naked but only in character," and "Robbie’s beauty and speed of ascent mask her ambition."
To say that the people of the internet are displeased with how she's depicted in the piece would be putting it mildly. And it's beyond peculiar phrasing; many pointed out that the article was just plain sexist.
"to understand the many complexities of margot robbie like I do, you should be able to point out Australia on a map"
— sansa (@merestam) July 6, 2016
-rich cohen
"Margot Robbie is from Australia. They're in a different time zone there. Also, she's blonde and I have a boner." - Rich Cohen, Vanity Fair
— Alanna (@alannallama) July 6, 2016
@VanityFair shame on you for publishing that "article" on Margot Robbie by Rich Cohen. I nearly drowned in his drool over her.
— Phil Varlese (@PhilVarlese) July 6, 2016
VANITY FAIR - Welcome To The Summer Of Margot Robbie by Rich Cohen
— BRANDON WARDELL (@BRANDONWARDELL) July 6, 2016
Her eyes are like two cool ass marbles. Her boobs are like bags of sand.
I mean, would people describe a man this way? No, they would not. Because something like this would not exist.
Hey @VanityFair. I rewrote that Margot Robbie lede with Alexander Skarsgard. Yep. Still creepy. pic.twitter.com/py9HAUVP4a
— Donna Dickens (@MildlyAmused) July 6, 2016
But we can just leave it to Roxane Gay to say all that needs to be said.
"She wandered through the room like a second-semester freshman, "
— roxane gay (@rgay) July 6, 2016
I mean… she's a 26 year old movie star. The only freshmen is the guy with his dick in his hand, aka Rich Cohen.
— roxane gay (@rgay) July 6, 2016
Every issue of Vanity Fair this month comes with a thin sheen of Rich Cohen's semen holding the pagies of Margot Robbie's profile together.
— roxane gay (@rgay) July 6, 2016
Fortunately, she's also got some good ideas about how to avoid profiles of female celebrities like this in the future.
Don't use your penis to type your words. @johnseaborn
— roxane gay (@rgay) July 6, 2016
If only it were that simple.
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