My parents got married in 1981. My Dad's Mother didn't like my Mom much (she called Mom a slut and warned my Dad not to marry her), and for Christmas 1981, she gave my Mom a jar of Noxema. She warmed up after my oldest sibling was born, thankfully! But that's what I think of when I see Noxema :)

My mother washes her face with this and her skin is gorgeous. Of course, I think she could also wash her face with a combination of Crisco and WD-40 and the result would be the same.

That's EXACTLY how I felt until I went to my (women's) college. The rules were: don't challenge the boys, let them talk out without raising their hand, laugh at their jokes, don't be intimidating—that's how you get them to like you. The boyfriend I had my senior year of high school broke up with me in part because I…

I'm glad you mentioned that because I was just sitting here thinking 'what was going through that woman's mind when she was asked to pose like that?' And now I am thinking what was going through the person's mind when they were designing that chair?

It doesn't take away from the fact that this is incredibly racist, but I think it's important to point out that this isn't a real live black woman. The entire thing is furniture/sculpture. Still super racist, but it's not like she's sitting on a living, breathing black woman.

If the goal is a variety of people and families who are underrepresented, an older couple with a traditional division of housework can be a part of that. (That's aside from not knowing the limitations of either or if the commercial present enough of a slice to decide.)

Agreed. I found this line particular galling. "Yeah, women can be competitive and catty, and internalized sexism is a deeply destructive issue that needs to be called out and stamped out whenever it's detected"

" ... women can be brutal on other women—"girl-bashing" isn't a myth."

I never really liked Lena Dunham, until just now. She does seem like a classy lady.

The next post I want to see from the writers at Jezebel is an apology post, but it will probably be another defensive we're-right-you'll-see-we'll-make-you-see-it-if-we-have-to-drum-it-in post from them. But then, I would never have abused my position of authority in the first place by asking for those photos to begin…

WAIT. Does that mean that the Lena Dunham debacle is a post-modern ironic reinforcement of this article? Acting like mean girls just to undercut the mean girl dynamic? Ingenious.

Fuck no. Every time they blow up some molehill into a big enormous shit-spewing mountain, they get clicks, and clicks = $$$

I agree 1000% - and seriously, what if they had spent that $10,000 on something REAL like trying to get evidence in the Daisy Coleman case, or donating towards her medical costs? Out of all the different things they had to pick for a crusade, they pick THIS?

This is their response, and it can be clearly summed up as "fuck off, we're perfect!"

You know what this is? Jezebel's perfect troll. They trolled everyone. Hard.

It seems a bit like the Geraldo Rivera-Al Capone safe debacle. Jezebel looks silly because the images were only minorly altered. Jezebel put out a crazy offer for the images, and then realized that there was no real story. But it had to write an article to back up the need to bribe someone to steal the images.

I'm starting to feel like this is over something incredibly petty, like some Jez author was turned down by Vogue for an internship position or something on that level.

What is not a good thing is when the magazine decides to take that woman and tweak her appearance enough such that she's "acceptable" for the cover.

Respectfully, if you guys have something specifically against Vogue then it would be great if you would just write up a big retrospective piece. The more you make this about Lena Dunham and effectively force her to respond to this—which no matter how you slice it is a direct discussion about her body that invites a…