and owns up to the fact that it needs to take as good as it gives.

“At that precise moment, I felt the offense mechanism kick in: the everyday occurrence of seeing something bad, plus the added condition of taking it personally. Fuck that guy! I thought, flushed with a sensation I experience maybe three times per year. I had tried to convey the fact that “RAPE YOUR FACE” wasn’t an…

“I got offended while talking to a man wearing a North Face parody shirt that said RAPE YOUR FACE. He was an objectively upsetting sight, just visually, but I wasn’t mad about it until the end of our conversation: I asked him if he’d ever raped a face and he told me, grinning, that I’d just have to find out for…

I don’t know that I agree that Jezebel criticizes more than Gawker. It certainly criticizes more on subjects related to women, but “Look at this dumbass” and “Fuck this stupid famous person/look at the bullshit thing this famous person just said or did” articles are bog standard on Gawker. Just a week or so ago there…

I don’t get the whole Minaj as a feminist hero thing.

The issue is that is site was ALWAYS a clit bait model, always.

Nor do I, which I why I find this piece to be total hypocrisy. “Please don’t turn your outrage culture on us while we turn it on everyone else.”

The “not a feminist site” always seemed like a little bit of a convenient cop-out.

You are not stuck in a job that has high public visibility, even if you fell into it accidentally.

The same Vargas-Cooper that defended the Gawker outing fiasco?

Oh, I don’t mind unleashing and I agree that the writers are human and they have a right to get pissed and annoyed. But there’s unleashing and then there’s banning, which has happened to me 4 times now and I think it’s clear by now that I’m not a troll. And it’s not just me, we all know of several long time commenters…

I think what we can all agree on is this.

At least we’re not xoJane.

*but it’s okay because only men can’t give snarky backhanded compliments.

Jezebel is nothing if not hypocritical.