The grey thing is baffling to me. I’ve been on Jezebel since it started. I haven’t had this burner since it started, but it’s still been several years, and I’ve never been out of the greys. It seems like some sort of mythical status. I’m not a super regular commenter but I have no idea what the criteria are. It should…

Hey, there. This is an excellent piece on a critical topic: exactly the kind of blog for which we visit Jezebel. And yet, in two hours, there are eight replies. A few years ago, there would have been hundreds. And I think that this is because the ‘grays’ are leaving in droves: there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism…

Ya, last time I checked, fry bread is not “part of immigrant culture.” Native Americans get erased again. And in Ali Wong’s defense, she just wrote and starred in a film that completely revolves around cooking (and lovingly so) and she’s just utterly delightful, so I am not here for questioning her street cred to…

And, Padma is hardly a shill for ‘American food’.

after reading this, I’m not even sure what the author wants.

yeaah... I skim read and got to the reiteration of “there was no real attempt to reckon with why we should consider other options”

My hot take: current jezebel writers got soooooo excited that a current relevant show made an unattributed reference to a decade old jez article that they had to find a way to write about it. but they couldn’t help underlining the reason why this website used to be relevant and no longer is--mistaking real social…

Most of this article is Stewart owning up to the lack of diversity on his staff and what lead to it. In an intelligent and insightful way. So why was the last bit necessary? I clicked it (maybe thats why?) thinking it was going to be about him having a history of yelling at staff. But it was only about the Cain…

disjointed histrionics from a bunch of other privileged white chicks who get off on their self-assigned gatekeeping duties and virtue-signalling.

“According to the story, the seniors and their parents had been bereft at the prospect of a toned-down ceremony....”

Exactly. And it’s this kind of “hot take” that makes me go okay, yeah, fuck this whole “cancel culture” thing going on. I mean, unless I’m missing something, Geisel went through a period of overt hostility toward Japanese people after Japan’s attack on the U.S. and our subsequent entry into WWII, but he not only…

Probably because of his WWII propaganda pay no attention to the fact that not only did he apologize for it he wrote an “Horton Hears a Who” to teach children about racism and donated much of the proceeds from the book to organizations helping Japanese-Americans get back on their feet because a real-life story about sel…

Excellent point. This also makes me consider the trans journey and how their view of “feeling feminine” (for a transwoman) may be influenced by the same things a 13 year old sees - famous, perfect, big lips, etc.

Nah that wasn’t idiotic. I read it as directed toward you as well. (As one does) would have been more clear. 

I think the biggest issue is women who think the feminist movement was great before trans people came along (going out on a limb and say they are older white women doing the gatekeeping here.) But The Cyborg Manifesto was written in 1985 and it brought up this exact issue of feminism lacking intersectionality. We are…

“ There’s the truly unhinged, who think men are actually transitioning so they can use public bathrooms and rape women. Those people are hopeless.” - This x 1000! I cant recall how many times I have read comments online about “They are going in there to look/rape women or kids” or “Id like to see a guy try to use the…

Nope. I’m right there with you. Drug or alcohol abuse would be my likely paths by personality type. And I would rather have that than be manically banging out one last batch of artisanal, gluten-free, keto cupcakes at 2:00 AM on a Friday night, with pink frosting in my hair, before heading out to my side-hustle at a…

Megan Murphy is also a SWERF (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist) who promotes victim-blaming and slut-shaming on her site. Any woman who calls it out gets verbally abused by her supporters. Little of what her site promotes can honestly be called progress- a good 2/3 of it is just bullying sex positive…

I don’t necessarily think we’re in disagreement! (Time for my disclaimer: I don’t know a lot of trans people on a super close level though I have worked with trans people and have trans friends in my social circle, and I try to seek out stories from trans people online or elsewhere to help me understand). I’m also a…