Yeah but the whole telling her therapist and stuff doesn’t happen till the end of the article and to be fair, it’s a long-ass article. I was slightly offended until about half-way thru the article when it occurred to me that it was a joke.

For real, I was like, “is this article, shaming women’s fashion choices, really…

And how is that satirical exactly? Satire is meant to ridicule social mores. Is this piece ridiculing people who hate clothes? Is that even a thing?

If the vast majority of your intended audience doesn’t “get” it, then it’s not “genius” - it’s a failed attempt at satire. People think satirical writing is easy because they confuse snark and meanness with satire, but it’s actually an extremely difficult style to write. Snark and faux meanness are not and will never…

I don’t want to speak for her, but Jia does seem to out-and-out hate at least this site’s commenters.

LOL they ALWAAAAYS pull this “but it’s satire!” defense whenever an article is widely disliked by commenters. Okay fine, it’s shitty satire that didn’t hit its mark whatsoever. Does that really make it any better?

It also went on too long for about 3/4 of a mile...

Jia, you are not good at your job.

it was too dry. like idk i consider myself VERY dry and i really love vicious, cutting satire, but i was honestly unsure of the whole thing and i felt like i didn’t know what to do with my hands. the only reason i thought it was satire? because it seemed to mean for jez, and i assumed there was a joke i was missing.

i believe you but idk bb it did not play out well at all. like i kept reading it making a slightly upset, unsure face because i felt as if it was too cruel for jez to have put up, and there was a joke i was missing, but it was, unfortunately, absolutely something someone out there has written.

If you thought it was perfect satire then that’s ok, but the amount of people not sure or taking offense seems to imply that this generally failed. It takes so long to get off the ground that it only finds itself near the end of the piece and doesn’t have the comedic/satirical turn early enough to get the reader on…

It’s not very well done if nobody can recognize it as satire, though.

Is that what was decided after the intended narrative didn’t catch on? LOL nice try.

Don’t cry. This article’s fucked up.

If this piece is supposed to be humor, it misses the mark with all the body shaming.

true story: my favorite maxi dress is from Target’s maternity line. I have never been pregnant.

So you just carry that around wherever you go? In case a dildo-based argument breaks out?

i’d also like to submit that jeff goldblum was the perfect addition to this sketch, rivaled only by the wigglyness of the dildos.

I get all my history lessons through Drunk History

tru confessions: the “I Wanna Grow Old With You” song still makes me tear up

When I get my time machine running, I’m coming for you, 1985 James Spader.