I am kinda interested in this, but have real difficulty giving this any of my time unless it will look critically at Maggie Haberman and ask hard questions about why the NYT continues to employ her, given her and her family’s significant ties to Trump, the Kushners, and Russia.

Thank you for doing the author’s job for them. They seemed content to be a hyperbolic bomb thrower, and made their primary argument without any sources or examples leaving it open to easy, lazy rebuttal. The kind of tired and counter-productive shit-stirring that this network has been engaging in more and more.…

So – I’m a little busy right now to do a truly comprehensive list without getting a check for it – especially since I’d essentially be doing the author’s work – but would it not have been useful to at least list *some* of the most prominent current women whose work has been co-opted and whitewashed and erased?

No. I realize we are all limited to our lived experience, but your experience here is not analogous with what this doctor did or what people commonly refer to as FGM.

Nowhere did this article even bring up circumcision. Why is it so hard to stay on topic when it’s about an atrocity that’s done to women’s sexual organs? Why is it always, “We must discuss the penis first!”

Yes, but there’s a time and a place to talk about nonconsentual circumcision of the penis. Generally speaking, it’s not when talking about forced clitorectomies, since that’s a specific problem that has proven pernicious and needs to be stamped out.

What the fuck? No. That is like saying if woman A slept with woman B who was trans but before she had transitioned in any way, or even publicly identified that way, then woman A has slept with a woman even though at that time woman B was biologically and publicly identifying as a man. Circumcision done to you as a…

I haven’t heard a fucking peep out of any of them since about a week after the election... which is about the only good thing that has happened since the election.

“The world sees her as this glamorous, sophisticated, jet-setting woman,

Leo Dicaprio was also desperate for an oscar but no one hated him for it. No one posted crotch shots. In fact people felt sorry for him, his popularity grew. It’s such fucking bullshit.

Never forget that Rich once wrote an entire article about how men aren’t really hanging around in locker rooms talking about all the pussy they’ve grabbed because they’re too busy masturbating at other men.

I never get the impression that Rich likes women, as a rule. Yes, he can be strenuous in his like of SOME women, as though this is the same thing, but in general is tone is one of remove with a touch of distaste. I didn’t care much for reading him on Gawker but it continually irks me that he now writes for Jez.

Yes. People assume that everyone else got “woke” exactly when they did (so that they’re never behind the curve). So if they had their awakening in 2014, that surely must have been when the rest of the world realized there was a problem, right? Judging by when Rich’s LinkdIn says he graduate from college (2001), I’d…

Basically, the same shit they’re doing now to Ed Sheeran. For awhile it was Anne Hathaway, then it was Ariana Grande, and whatever. The writers get on a haterade about a specific celebrity and comments are full of lemmings.

He talks about 2012 like it was the way-back days of yore. As if we had all just crawled out of the cave and women just won the right to vote. IT WAS 2012! Five years ago. He’s telling us he didn’t have any qualms about posting an exploitative picture in 2012 but suddenly 24 months later in 2014 he’s achieved moral…

Yeah. I really cannot stand Rich. My only hope here is that her complimenting him on his preparedness was shade, because that is how I read it. I read this entire article making a :/ face as I was fully aware that he had published her upskirt pics and basically caused the entire Matt Lauer fiasco. Then he goes on to…

Gawker and Jez have been abysmal when it comes to the hypocrisies of how it treats certain celebrities. Anne, Kesha, Lena Dunham, Jennifer Lawrence, the list goes on.

No, I’m pretty sure most of us knew well before then that it’s not OK to take/disseminate naked pictures without someone’s consent.

I completely agree. Like I don’t want to shit all over someone who’s obviously trying, but this whole thing was very surface-level, stopping just short of the real, uncomfortable work that is required to actually grow in a situation like this. The author talks about accountability but then also spends a decent amount…

Man, you guys owe this woman a 50-page apology. I don’t know why anybody hates her— someone didn’t like the sincerity level of a speech she gave and that’s why so many years of public abuse and loathing? Or something? But she sounds 10x smarter & more self-aware & more gracious than any writer here, in any event.