Zooey Deschanel Thinks Your Ideas Are Great

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Zooey Deschanel Thinks Your Ideas Are Great

Zooey Deschanel is looking quite sultry on the cover of Marie Claire's upcoming September issue—but don't you dare think that her seductive expression or gorgeous clothes or ridiculously perfect hair means she can't have good ideas, dammit. Zooey has always had some choice things to say about the intersection of femininity and intellectualism (shockingly, they're not mutually exclusive!), and in her interview, she continues the trend by dissecting the small, moldy minds of the people who make such a big, dumb deal about her frilly, feminine style.

"My theory is that people in this day and age want to dismiss things," she explained. "So they want to be able to dismiss you. They say, ‘You don’t belong, you don’t deserve this because here’s why, and let me find an intellectual argument for why you wearing pink or cuff sleeves or a bow makes you not worthy of your accomplishments. Everything you’ve done doesn’t matter because you wore the wrong thing or you speak in a way that’s feminine or you identify yourself as feminine.’ And I just think that’s bullshit. And smart people are doing it, and that’s surprising to me. I’ll give them being smart, but they’re being very shortsighted."

In fact, Zooey says that the experience of being so constantly criticized—particularly on the internet—was part of what inspired her to launch her website, Hello Giggles, for young women, as a positive voice to combat the waves of naysayers online.

"I just felt it’s important to teach young girls to be strong people, to not think, I can’t do this because I’m worried about what people will say," she said. "There are worse consequences, but online negativity stops people from being creative, part of which is having bad ideas as well as good ideas. When somebody says, ‘That idea’s stupid,’ you stop your flow of ideas. We can’t have the next generation be so afraid because they have been attacked."

Sigh. So true. But thanks to Zooey, we will keep on keeping on! And we will most certainly not listen to all those trolls who keep telling us that our plan to create an army of sex robots that look like Ryan Gosling should be tabled for being "stupid" or "unethical" or "physically impossible using modern-day technology." Pffft. HATERS.

What do you think of Zooey's latest Marie Claire appearance?

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