Madonna was not pleased with her New York Times profile this week, which she slammed for focusing on “superficial” details before calling the paper “one of the founding fathers of the Patriarchy.” Judging from the Times’ summary of her response to the piece on social media, the Times wasn’t pleased with her, either. “Wait—what’s Madonna mad about?” asked editor Choire Sicha. “(Surprise, though, and a spoiler — Madonna absolutely despises this profile, viciously and graphically described on her Instagram, though I’m unclear on why. It’s often awful to be written about! It’s a very normal reaction, and I think it’s amplified for people who are very regimented and used to being in control of their lives),” Choire continued, adding that Madge has “grown ever more remote and has always been a bit inarticulate, even as she stays in the popular imagination and in the rotation of playlists.” For her part — and to answer Choire’s inquiry — Madonna was mad that she was subject to observations she felt would not have been included had she been a man. “Women have a really hard time being the champions of other women,” Madonna wrote on Instagram, “even if they are posing as intellectual feminists.”
