"She is oppressed only because she is overweight." You say this like it's a small thing.
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If you ever read this Caity, you have a couple of fangirls here.
Even if it's not the target audience, it's most certainly the audience it attracts. That's why I rarely ever bother to actually comment or engage in discussion on serious articles. I'm mostly here for the squee and the fluff. While we're sharing experiences, on an article about student loans I got piled on by numerous…
Yeah, I had a friend who told me once, "You should go to college!" And then, having dispensed her wisdom, she waited for me to shower her with gratitude. Like....how?!
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No, that's FEMINISM's target demographic. Jezebel's is more like Angela Wright from the MadTV show. Pump up the blackitude!
Was Erin the one who wrote about being raised in a southern town and how much she hated it recently? Because holy shit......that was some serious stereotyping bullshit right there.
Everyone in Boston is sports obsessive. Yes, I am a woman who gives zero fucks about sports. And I am married to a man who gives zero fucks about sports. But when I went to law school in Boston, people literally NEVER SHUT UP about sports. EVER. So I developed a default response. Whatever they asked me about (did you…
You have a point about "Midwestern." When I moved to the Midwest, after living in L.A. and D.C., at a certain point, I called home to tell my mother, "I am not used to interacting with this type of (homogenous and culturally unaware) white people."
I liked Erin when she was MorningGloria, but she has become a classist snob as a writer. Her article whining about being stuck in an airport in Puerto Rico was eyeroll-inducing, and when someone called her a city girl in a snotty way, she came back saying she grew up in a town of 1000 people. I wanted to write, "From…
That's a really good point. I remember being stunned by a women's studies class I took in college and how you'd think feminism was just about white women who were once middle or upper class housewives and then became liberated sometime in the 70's. I mean, it was crazy. Not only were very few (if any, really) women…
They have made up for it by hiring Hilary Crosley and Phoenix Tso, two writers of color. But it did get annoying when they kept calling other companies/media racist, yet a majority of their writers are white. Also, they will call out others for being bigoted against LGBT people, yet their stories regarding love and…
"privileged american white women"
I'm scared to answer the question so you were brave to ask it. Partly I feel like maybe that is the target demographic. Partly I feel that there aren't that many feminist sites around, so this site may be drawing many different types of people as readers and commenters.
I had to just laugh recently when i saw and replied to a post in the comments where the OP was so befuddled and sort of disgusted by the thought of someone having a full-size bed past the age of like...8. Just one very small example, but I think you're not way off base.
Some would argue that's not just Jezebel's target demo, but feminism itself's.
I forgot to add- there was an article about a woman that lives in a poor neighborhood. I think (I don't remember) someone almost hit her and her children as they were crossing the street. One commenter said the woman should get a car. Obviously, the person was speaking out of privilege. A lot of commenters had to…
One thing that caught my attention is Jezebel posts sponsored items (bags, jewelry, etc.) from random sponsors. These items tend to be kind of expensive. I'm very sure they know all kinds of people read their website. Also, most of the authors (if not all of them) seem to come from privileged backgrounds. Sometimes…
I'm blue collar/poor white trash and the class differences are glaring. Nothing says "privilege" like a bunch of educated people over thinking every last fucking thing in the goddamned world.