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Scott Scanlon Goes Country
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On the one hand, I like to pretend people like Solomon was responding to do not exist. On the other hand, they do and I think he's fucking awesome for responding to them thoughtfully. On the OTHER hand it's certainly not his job to do so. On the other OTHER hand I am glad someone out there is willing to. And on my

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

Jez,

Um, I think we need to mention that the body they've digitally made here is anorexic.

Well done. Truly a great victory for feminism.

Jezebel has gotten mean and petty lately, and so have a lot of Jezebel commenters who fancy themselves above the the fray. The thread on how much better some commenters' writing is than the writer's of Jez, was just so...misguided and petty.

Wow. This is the ultimate in concern trolling.

One of the best ways I ever saw cultural appropriation explained was a girl on Tumblr claimed she bought a band shirt because it was pretty and she had never listened to the band and didn't understand the symbolism on the shirt, she just thought it was cool. Cue a crap ton of the band's fans screaming about how dumb

I hate how everyone thinks Texas is just cows and prairies. We have cities so big they call'em one word DFW. Houston home of great Music. Austin great food trucks. San Antoino home of the best Mexican and Tex-Mex food, as long as you stay out of downtown. and in all these places no fucking cows. AGGGGG!

How long til you stop finding creative ways to beat up on Lena Dunham while pretending your cause is noble?

This is utterly bizarre. I think we can all agree these images are heavily Photoshopped. Is there really any need to see the originals? And putting a bounty on the images ~ is Jezebel the National Enquirer now?

This is ridiculous.

Yeah, I especially got that in the paragraph where she says "Lena Dunham is a woman who trumpets body positivity, who's unabashedly feminist...."

I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money...but screw that, surely you can find some more worthy cause to give $10,000 to!

Yeeah, this sounds a little too much like "We don't like this woman, and now that she actually looks good in a photoshoot we're going to do everything we can to prove that she actually didn't look good in real life" for my tastes. Jesus Christ.

I think you meant