I wasn't trying to lash out (as I said in several other comments) but seeing words like that hurts. It's an emotional response built up by years of slurs and name calling. And the idea that I (or any other person who has had violence done to them physically or with words because of their identity) have to keep it…

I won't lie, all the disdain for GT I'm seeing in this thread is getting me down. One of the reasons people feel comfortable posting about mental health on groupthink is because they know the comments will be supportive/helpful. I always thought that was a good reflection of the forum.

Jezebel is NOT a feminist publication.

Then we will all go down together.

Equally as troubling is your constant refrain of "Dunham embraces her appearance as that of a real woman; she's as body positive as they come," and "Lena Dunham is a woman who trumpets body positivity," and "Her body is real. She is real," as if that serves as her consent for her body to be used in your, what, exposé?…

Please come visit us at groupthink.jezebel.com. We're not like them, I promise.

I hope lena is unaware that any of this is going on.

I wonder if it is just this thing where everyone wants to get a job at "Cosmo" or some shit, because really?

I'm forever a grey, so I don't know if my comment will help push this up, but DOING MY PART.

Given Jez's history of listening to their commenters (by which I mean, they don't), I doubt this will do much, but I'll comment nonetheless. This site is turning into such a bad joke.

I stopped going to the mainpage altogether because I don't recognize the site I used to love anymore.

recommending and commenting to push to the top. Wonderful points, and great links back to other stuff that has been said here. I also am appalled at how this opened the flood gates to insults and body shaming. :/

This is so right on. Thank you. I have been trying to quit jezebel for the past year because of all the reasons you stated. But keep coming back from time to time because....nostalgia, I guess, and it's not ALL bad. Today, though, it was due to seeing this WTFery come across twitter, and I had to see it for myself.…

I agree. I don't even recognize the main page anymore.

I almost never visit Jez anymore and this crap is why.

This, so much this. I also started reading Jezebel as a teenager and the difference between the website I loved and read religiously years ago and its present form are vast. Former writers and commenters never would have allowed for such hateful language about women and their bodies. I remember days when it wasn't…

Freaking South Park gave us more interesting and thought provoking observations on photoshopping then this. Jezebel completely missed the opportunity to even get in on that and turn those observations into a real discussion, with all the groundwork laid out for them and they didn't have to resort to being an asshole…

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

Here's a vital conversation to have: where should we draw the line at doing asshole things because those asshole things "create a conversation"?

How about adding that $10,000 to a kickstarter so Dunham can hire a nonwhite writer?