The only reason you'd feel uncomfortable is intolerance.
The only reason you'd feel uncomfortable is intolerance.
There's so much wrong with this I had to get a cup of coffee ready before I could begin. But now I'm set so lets get out our red marker and go line by line.
Awesome takedown, Doug. And nice to see that at least one person on the Jez staff feels like writing about a feminist issue this week and giving it its appropriate level of analysis. God forbid anyone else draw their attention away from US Magazine for story ideas lately. Keep it up, Doug!
I wouldn't suggest that sexual predators who target children are any different from any other criminal. A person who steals a car knows it's wrong but he does it anyway. And a person who fucks a kid knows it's wrong as well and just doesn't give a shit.
OK, I'd just like to point out the whole problem using the Louis C.K. bit in the first place when used in this context:
Gentle reminder that Jezebel still has a long-serving staff member who says that "i think that by saying that girls are 'weak' and not mentally or emotionally capable of dealing with something like that is totally taking away their agency all together. everyone is different, and that is why i think the age of consent…
I'm sorry the magic doesn't work on your face.
I don't understand your hatred for a picture someone takes of themselves. A hatred for someone that posts a ton of pictures that look similar is understandable; a hatred for simply the act of taking a picture of yourself is confusing. Especially since you seem to be fine with it if another person takes the picture.…
I don't care what anyone says. I love a good selfie. I love looking at my friends' selfies. I love instagramming selfies where I look awesome. I feel like women are constantly told to live up to beauty standards, but not to actually find ourselves beautiful, and selfie culture cuts right through that bullshit. I see…
Mine never come out very well either. I'm pretty sure its the lighting.
You defended her racism but can't get over her duck face? White feminism in a nutshell.
He has woman issues- I think he beat one of his wives or something. It's upsetting, I know.
Anybody else a little bit offended by Dirt Bag snarking at Lena Dunham being body confident?
They gave her a shoulder. Did Adele get a shoulder? Lena Dunham got a shoulder. PROGRESS.
How, exactly, is it "selfish"? Recognize that a lot of people are getting mad at you right now because the usual accusation leveled at a woman who does something you don't approve of is "selfish," and because the cultural narrative says that women are supposed to put every other person's needs before our own, it cuts…
You're super gross.
Oh, boo to you. I'm sorry my heels make you feel sad. People wearing flip flops on the subway make me feel sad, but I'm not writing paragraphs-long diatribes about them. Leave your judgment away from my heels and I'll let you wear your orthopedic shoes in peace :)
Saying that someone had a clean record before this crime is a really good argument for mitigation when someone gets caught with a joint, or walks out of a store without paying for one of the items in his shopping bag. This 49 year old only had a traffic violation on his record, so why ruin his life for the simple…
In a way, I knew exactly why: Because all the manly-man straight guys I was exposed to growing up were pervs, all of them. The gay guys were pretty *and* didn't molest me. Win-win!
Yay, I'm not a perv!