Editing Kim Gordon (section)

==Public image==

Gordon is a [[popular culture]] icon, epitomizing an "ineffable, magnetic coolness"<ref name=sidetracked/> and "a certain brand of aloof, downtown cool."<ref>{{cite web|title=Kim Gordon's Not Pretending Anymore|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/books/reviews/a26946/kim-gordon-book-review/|work=Elle|access-date=August 16, 2018|last=Grose|first=Jessica|date=February 23, 2015}}</ref> Some journalists have noted her as a public figure who has "never given much away" about herself.<ref name=woodward>{{cite web|work=[[Another Magazine]]|title=Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain and Female Icons|last=Woodward|first=Daisy|url=http://www.anothermag.com/design-living/7268/kim-gordon-on-kurt-cobain-and-female-icons|date=April 13, 2015|access-date=August 15, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180826190601/http://www.anothermag.com/design-living/7268/kim-gordon-on-kurt-cobain-and-female-icons|archive-date=August 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ad-Rock|Adam Horovitz]] of the [[Beastie Boys]] commented on Gordon's persona, stating: "Wherever Kim ends up, she is the coolest person in the room. But I know her, and I know she'd rather be at home grilling hot dogs."<ref name=stage/>

Gordon has also been cited as "a modest [[polymath]]" given her varied career pursuits in art, music, fashion, and acting.<ref name=after>{{cite web|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Kim Gordon: life after Sonic Youth|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/16/kim-gordon-life-after-sonic-youth|date=February 16, 2014|access-date=August 15, 2018|last=Lynskey|first=Dorian}}</ref> While observations were made by the media of Gordon being "dauntingly impressive and self-assured" during her tenure with Sonic Youth, she commented in a retrospective interview that she was "pretty insecure about my image and where I fitted in."<ref name=after/> Describing her image, she said: "I knew I couldn't achieve some kind of cool, stylised image, that just wasn't me...&nbsp; It was a reaction to corporate style. So it was kind of just being yourself, you know walking on stage wearing a t-shirt."<ref name=woodward/>

Upon the release of her 2015 memoir, Gordon received some criticism for comments made about other musicians,<ref name=outlive>{{cite web|work=Vogue|title=#JeSuisKim: Why Kim Gordon and Her New Memoir Will Outlive the Lana Del Rey Twitter Controversy|last=Bengal|first=Rebecca|date=February 20, 2015|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-gordon-interview-girl-in-a-band-memoir|access-date=August 16, 2018}}</ref> among them [[Lana Del Rey]]: "Naturally, [she]'s just a persona. If she really truly believes it's beautiful when young musicians go out on a hot flame of drugs and depression, why doesn't she just off herself?"<ref name=ld>{{cite web|work=NME|title=Kim Gordon says that Lana Del Rey 'doesn't even know what feminism is'|date=February 20, 2015|last=Britton|first=Luke Morgan|access-date=August 16, 2018|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/sonic-youth-10-1207478}}</ref> Gordon also reflected on working with [[Courtney Love]] in 1991, writing: "No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – [[sociopathy]], [[narcissism]] – because it's good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behavior, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill."<ref name=ld/> Gordon clarified her comments on Del Rey in a subsequent interview, stating: "Initially it was about just seeing something in the paper... something about how rock stars should just like kill themselves with drugs, and [[Frances Bean Cobain|Frances Bean]] [Cobain] had really reacted to that and I felt really actually weirdly protective of Frances. So I was basically just trying to point out that it was a persona and I just offhandedly said what I said...&nbsp; I guess I could have articulated the whole thing a lot better."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Daisy |title=Kim Gordon addresses her controversial Lana Del Rey comments |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/27086/1/kim-gordon-addresses-her-controversial-lana-del-rey-comments |website=[[Dazed]] |date=21 October 2015}}</ref>