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…

Jez,

Admit it, Jez. You were wrong.

Actually, her twitter response was much better: "Way cooler when people do things out of pure blind spite than out of faux altruism". Faux altruism describes this whole shitshow perfectly.

Black people like to be adequately lit too. I don't see anything wrong with this one. She looks wonderful.

I wish there was someone writing for Jezebel who actually had a basic understanding of photography and the process of retouching because no, they just balanced the whites.

"Commodifying women's bodies"— you're doing it right, Jezebel!

"This is about Vogue, and what Vogue decides to do with a specific woman who has very publicly stated that she's fine just the way she is, and the world needs to get on board with that. Just how resistant is Vogue to that idea?"

As you say, as adults.

How about:

The plot of the book is about a love affair between two people. That's a love story. It's not about the rise of Big Brother or the hunt for the resistance or anything like that. Page after page of the story is about two people in love. All of the politics comes through in "Goldstein's Book" which is not the story…

I disagree. The relationship between Winston and Julia is not just a device for exploring political theories, although it is that as well.

WHO WILL THINK OF THE MEN?

1984 is a love story. And the John Hurt version focused primarily on the relationship between Winston and Julia. That's the basis for the dramatic tension. It's what's at stake and it's how the state exercises its ultimate control: by monopolizing love.

It doesn't fit from where I'm sitting...

No, just libertarians.

You lost me at "libertarian thinker"

1) thanks for saying that!

There's no need to worry about "this discussion....(being) co-opted/hijacked by White Women/Black Men/others who have a tendency to project their own interests and ignore Black women in these discussions about Black women", because THIS discussion is not about black women in the first place. It's about a black man,…

you're right that the discussion does need to be had, but it just doesn't need to be had here or on this man's blog which is about fatherhood not the place of black women in contemporary American society...