Sady Doyle
Introduction
Sady Doyle (born 1982) is an American feminist author and former journalist who lives in New York City.
Education
In 2005, she graduated from Eugene Lang College.
Writing
Doyle founded the blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008 and wrote for it beginning that year; the blog ended in 2013. In regard to her Tiger Beatdown writing, her critique of Liz Lemon from 2010 was oft-cited, while Alyssa Rosenberg, writing for ThinkProgress in 2011, criticized her critique that year of the sexual violence in Game of Thrones.
Doyle's first book, titled Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why (2016), dealt with the ways in which society, and especially the media, have built up and torn down women who defied social norms throughout history, particularly by classifying them as "crazy" and "trainwrecks". Her second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, about patriarchy, monsters, and the horror of being female, was released in August 2019.
She contributed the piece "The Pathology of Donald Trump" to the 2017 anthology Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, as well as contributing to Rookie - Yearbook One and Yearbook Two, and the Book of Jezebel.
Doyle was a staff writer for In These Timesand Rookie, and has also written for other outlets including The Guardian, Elle, The Atlantic, and NBCNews.com.
She has written extensively about sexual assault and the misogynistic abuse that many women face online, which she has herself endured.
Social media activities
In 2010, she started the #MooreandMe campaign against Michael Moore's rejection of rape allegations made about Julian Assange.
In 2011, she started the hashtag #mencallmethings as a way to further discussion of sexist abuse received by women writers on the Internet.
Also in 2011, she received the first Women's Media Center Social Media Award.
In 2013, Kurt Metzger feuded with her and Lindy West via Facebook and Twitter during a defense of rape humor.
Personal life
She has a husband and a daughter.