Because as women we’re not required to “stand up for others” every time we clap back against sexism. We can do it just for ourselves. Everyone who experiences sexism is qualified to critique it. And she wasn’t even speaking out about sexism in general, just one SPECIFIC type of sexism aimed directly at HER and her…

Thank you. I just straight up distrust “feminist” arguments aimed at policing and critiquing individual women’s survival strategies within misogynistic systems rather than the systems themselves. That is not my feminism.

Thank you! My feeling is that women who aren’t thin, white or famous face similar (and worse) attacks on their reproductive agency every day. And I can’t see anything wrong with a famous woman using her public platform to push back against this widespread “your womb is our business” sentiment even if it affects her in…

“I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,”

You expressed this so eloquently. Comments like these reassure me that reading Jezebel is worthwhile.

To me it reads like she was trying to make an argument based in intersectional feminism but misunderstood/misrepresented what intersectionality means. It’s intended to reflect the complexities of how oppression and privilege play out within various women’s lives, not divide women up into demographic groups and…

Thank you for putting what I was thinking into such eloquent words. It’s my opinion that all women are taught to feel shame about their bodies from a young age. It never goes away, I don’t think, no matter how much one may fit society’s “ideal."

“ I have the number of a mouse exterminator to give you—his name is Robert, he has a wonderful narrative, he won Poland’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize in plastic arts.” was beautiful too.

This!

Yeah, I'm a little tired of the sort of victim-blamey responses from feminists whenever women (particularly women who have any type of privilege, like wealth) criticize things like slut-shaming, body-shaming, victim-blaming, etc.

It’s complicated. Aniston has a benefited handsomely from “society’s warped beauty standards” for sure, but she also had to knuckle under them. The story goes that she tried out for “Friends” and was told she had to lose 20 pounds to be considered for the role. So she lost the 20 pounds. I don’t mean that Aniston has…

There’s also the fact that to a certain degree women are forced to commodify their bodies if they want to have lucrative and satisfying careers as artists. Maybe they’re just theatre geeks who want to get good roles but that generally is more likely to happen if they have played the game of building themselves up as a…

Forgive me if I missed something, but part of her statement about being made to feel or seem “less than” was the contents of her uterus. The fact that she has no children, by design or fate, and the apparent desire to view her as “poor Jen” because of her childless state is something that hits home for some of us. The…

I don’t think this is one of your better essays. It reads like you and your editors disagreed and no one backed down and each got their viewpoint included and it clouded up the whole thing.

ALL PIZZA LIFE IS PRECIOUS.

I could be wrong, but her primary complaint didn’t seem to be about beauty standards only, but how everyone is waiting for her to be pregnant so she can be a complete woman or something. This wasn’t about decades of pictures of her without make-up, or having cellulite, this was about her having a baby and how it’s a…

I want to know who the hell has matching beach towels. This is America, where we buy beach towels at Wal-Mart as an afterthought when we’re picking up ice for the cooler on our way down to the beach.

I mean, it’s nice to own a small business? Especially if your husband is trying bring about The Handmaiden’s Tale-times. You know you’re not going to be able to own anything then, up to and including your own body!

She’s not going to have sex with you, Brett.