{"id":27090,"date":"2014-09-19T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27090"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:04:15","slug":"celebrating-joan-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/celebrating-joan-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Joan Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a Fashion Police<\/em> fanatic\/Joan Rivers fan, turn on E!, because the network is running an all-day marathon of the show in memory of Joan right now<\/a>. Joan’s daughter Melissa will appear on special tribute episode at 8 PM ET.<\/p>\n

When I started this blog in 2007, its motto was “Wear What You Want” — my way of encouraging peeps to defy what I called the “self-appointed fashion police who snark on anyone who shows a little creativity<\/a>.” This August 26, as I watched the official Fashion Police <\/em>show on the MTV Video Music Awards and the Emmys<\/a>, I thought, for the zillionth time, that I really needed to write a post clarifying that Joan Rivers was not the target of my anti-policing wrath (okay, just this time<\/a>). Joan was a comedian doing outrageous schtick. (Her unfunny E! cohosts — Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic — them<\/em> I have a problem with. I usually enjoy the third cohost, George Kotsiopoulos, because he’s more open-minded and less whiny.)<\/p>\n

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Click for other great Joan lines.<\/p><\/div>\n

If Joan had had the late-night network show as she deserved, she’d be riffing off all kinds of current events in her monologue. But, because late night is firmly in the hands of white men in suits<\/a>, Joan had to focus her talents on the traditionally feminine — and therefore overlooked and disrespected<\/a> — topic of fashion.<\/p>\n

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