![]() ![]() So even though there’s a silliness to and it’s very pop culture, we also express a multidimensionality that feminism has always embraced, even though people have often tried to make the movement seem less than multidimensional. “As a feminist, I just think that’s cool. “The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me,” Brownstein says. “Like, we somehow managed to make two feminists the most popular characters on our show.” In Other Words, the bookstore where those sketches are filmed, has even become a popular tourist attraction. “I think of those characters as superheroes,” she says. Brownstein recently gave an interview with Bust Magazine, talking about how this particular sketch isn’t about making fun of feminists nor about independent bookstores. The store is based on Portland’s real feminist bookstore, In Other Words. Portlandia is packed with literary and bookish laughs, including a regularly-recurring sketch featuring Candace and Toni, the two humorless women booksellers at the feminist bookstore, Women and Women First. It was created by and stars Fred Armisen, formerly of Saturday Night Live, and Carrie Brownstein, of the former/now-back-together girl rock band Sleater-Kinney. ![]() ![]() If you like sketch comedy and you have a sweet spot for satire, you should be watching IFC’s Portlandia. ![]()
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