I don’t see how you can blame the people who called it out as obviously fake.

Fair enough, although I also think that's part of the risk you take street parking. It's also frequently obvious when someone's a total nard who can't be bothered to think about leaving space for others, and if they need to be squeezed a little to make up for the space they've wasted, so be it.

It’s an impressive parking job. 

On the other hand, imagine if the tweeter had said: “Gosh... yes, I do regret having written those things, for which I am at no risk of being punished, and which have in fact now made me, in some small way, relevant and important, to the readership of New York magazine, even.”

That would have just been weird.

I wonder how the kind of people who call being proud of a good parallel parking job ableist feel about the Olympics.

For the love of Christ on a motherfucking bicycle, stop talking about Twitter.

“‘I abhor narcissists more than anything else, probably because I was raised by a malignant narcissist,’ one 40-year-old Twitter user told me. ‘Not only did I find your parking that way to be incredibly selfish but also the ‘can’t be shamed’ attitude convinced me that you must be a malignant narcissist.’ I asked if he…

*Walks up to podium.*

So today we’re crapping on Reese because she and her advisors brought in capital which will allow them to continue doing the very thing they are attempting. They’re not trying to cure disease, they make shows and movies about and for women.

Witherspoon brings viewers. The project has a better chance of getting picked up by a studio or streaming service with her attached. That’s just business in H-wood. A lot of white women will watch something Reese is in, and perhaps the subject matter is domestic abuse, racism, etc. and these women may become a little…

Yeah- also she did Little Fires Everywhere and made the source more diverse with some great roles for WOC. I don’t know if this is just going to produce stories about white women

“And while it’s true that Witherspoon’s company has produced a great deal of content focusing on women, those women have usually included Witherspoon and have mostly been white, as have the authors of the books they’re based on.”

What happened was a newly formed company made an investment in Hello Sunshine which resulted in a majority stake in Hello Sunshine being held by said company. Reese didn’t just pack the whole business up and hand it off to two guys to do what they will. Under the terms of the agreement the current CEO of Hello Sunshine…

Agreed.  Goopify makes zero sense in this context.  Gwyneth never pretended a vagina scented candle was a huge leap forward for feminism, and Reese wasn’t producing films to sell products with dubious health benefits. 

Feels like “Goopify” is being misused here. Reese and Gwyneth have entirely different forms of asshole tendencies and the ven diagram overlap is maybe 25%.

I’m not sure what Goopify means in this context. Whatever the issues you have with Witherspoon and her company, surely something like this is more positive than a site that promotes science-denial and dangerous practices.

Somebody needs to explain to Reese that the real meaning of feminism is a women getting paid to mischaracterize the actions of another white women in order to criticize them for compromising their progressive purity and succeeding the wrong way. Truly groundbreaking stuff.

I don’t understand the shade here. Reese created a company that greenlit movies and shows from women authors that otherwise never would have existed. Of course it includes her because it’s her own damn company. She can sell it to who she pleases because that’s how capitalism works.

I don’t think there is a single person in the entire history of humankind who passes a progressive blogger’s purity test.

She didn’t get 900 million. That’s the valuation of the company as part of the deal, but the company has a ton of investors. Stop the fuckin clickbait.