Well, I know they aren’t equivalent, and you know they aren’t equivalent, and I didn’t bring it up. I wonder why you did? (I’m lie, there’s no mystery as to why you brought it up at all).

Before I answer, could you clarify your premise? Because it seem like the question is predicated on the notion that calling someone a bitch and hitting someone in the face is equivalent. Hoping I’m misunderstanding.

Oh no, using the word bitch, won’t someone think of the children.

“if you would’ve told 9-year-old me that one of her heroes would one day... pair up with D-list rappers, she simply would’ve set fire to a Hot Topic.”

“I guess that’s the idea Lorelei has, which doesn’t seem well-considered, as if she thinks her dad is saying “Females don’t read Vonnegut” rather than “Samantha doesn’t read Vonnegut.”

“paying for 1,000 blind people to have surgery to help them see again... validating a range of stereotypes about view-thirsty influencers.”

Yes, sometimes people reach for the ten-dollar because they want to be seen using it, rather than requiring it to convey their meaning. I find it genuinely disheartening that a college-educated professional writer would think “macabre” was that kind of word.

I think the editors’ roles at Jezebel are mainly to ensure that the bloggers here aren’t all all writing about the same Twitter trending topic, and also to space out the breakfast hot takes, the lunch hot takes and the pre-dinner hot-takes so we all keep clicking throughout the day. I don’t think they’re paid enough…

“This also feels a lot like the stereotype that all Asian people are interchangeable.”

This author puts that argument in every time because it causes multiple people to comment and correct her every time. She (and her editors) know exactly what they’re doing.

“And doesn’t chose her words well? Then she shouldn’t say anything.”

She was speaking off the cuff, and using colloquial English. “Blind” is often used in the sense of “not perceiving”, even if the thing not being perceived is not visual, just as “taste” is used for aesthetic preferences that have nothing to do with food. No one actually failed to understand what she meant, including…

Interesting: what’s the mechanism by which clutching your pearls closes your ears? Is it like a drawstring kind of thing? She’s a professional and well-respected vocalist, but doesn’t choose her words to please the sensitivities of Midwest suburban moms.

Both the “pissed” tweets linked go to the same tweet which does not seem notably pissed and is from someone with just over a hundred followers and which has as of this writing received one like and no retweets. You’re literally inventing controversy from whole cloth.

Commenting only in the hopes that will ungrey your comment. This is exactly right.

Reading something on Jezebel that makes no sense and assuming that Jezebel is reporting it accurately is a decision that *you* are making.

“seems left over from a previous draft, although I can’t believe there were previous drafts of this” - this made me laugh.

I can’t imagine having a job where you’d need to generate a grade-school syllogism like “Jaws had a killer animal, Cocaine Bear had a killer animal, therefore Cocaine Bear is functionally and culturally the same as Jaws” and then proceed to be sanctimonious about it. Like, as long as we’re talking about animals that…

There’s a beautiful symmetry that this women finds cloths in other people’s stores to sell, and the meat of this article is summarizing someone else’s analysis of why that’s ok. Jezebel is like a reseller of thrift-store hot-takes.

I wonder if her voluntarily taking less money from the WNBA serves as an invitation to the writers here to rethink their certainty that she was forced to play overseas because WNBA players are paid so little in comparison to NBA players.