Eva Jinek causes feelings of disappointment in Kitty Herweijer and Elif Isitman, the women behind the Telegraaf podcast Unfiltered. “She really fell off a pedestal for me.”
The three-part series that Eva Jinek has made about motherhood irritates many women. Eva claims to break all kinds of taboos in three half-hour episodes, but critics – especially women – think that is mainly publicity talk. They argue that there is already an unprecedented amount of talk about mother problems.
Irritation
Kitty Herweijer, journalist for De Telegraaf, has watched De Wereld van Eva and talks about ‘irritainment’ and an ‘annoyance’. “What annoys me a bit is that the word ‘taboo’ is used rather quickly. It’s very irritating how that is used for everything, while usually it’s not that controversial at all,” she says in the podcast Unfiltered†
She finds Eva very disappointing. “I was personally very disappointed, because I always really liked Eva Jinek. When she started I really thought: you don’t really have that kind of woman in the Netherlands. She reminded me a bit of one of those American talk show anchors.”
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Eva was always so promising, Kitty thinks. “She always looks ready to get through, is a super cool chick, also has that American background, nice clothes and all and super sharp and intelligent. She can completely rip people off, like Mart Smeets or something when he was acting very annoying.”
According to Kitty, there is not much left of that. “I just think it’s a shame that she suddenly goes on that Libelle tour and that we are stuck with the umpteenth cliché. That just really annoys me.”
Pedestal
Co-host Elif Isitman agrees. “She has fallen off a pedestal for me. I always thought her journalism was quite an example. This is proof that when you have a child, you change as a woman.”
She continues: “Eva Jinek was the type of woman you wouldn’t expect. That you think: it will just remain itself, so to speak. And then you see this. When she was going to announce that documentary to Beau, I was watching it and I really thought: what happened to you?”
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Eva should have made something about prejudices that exist about working mothers, Elif thinks. “What I expected from Eva Jinek as a power woman and feminist role model is that she would bring up such a thing and not go along with the endless chatter about (put on your whining voice, ed.): oh, it hurts so much and then you have stitches!”
Incidentally, Elif notices that she is reserved in expressing her criticism. “Eva said to Beau that she is very vulnerable with this documentary. So somehow I think it’s a bit silly to torch her. Nothing but praise and love for her, but she just shouldn’t have done this.”
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