Bear with me here... can I request that Jez start doing profiles of non-problematic female CEOs/execs as well? I know that people like Sophia Amorouso, Tyler Haney, Miki Agrawal, Christene Barberich, Audrey Gelman, et al are independently controversial but we could all benefit from a more positive brand of feminism. E…

This article exemplifies everything I’ve experienced with white feminism for the better part of 30 years. 

It was always going to get worse. The point of the lockdown was to keep the strain off the hospitals. Most hospitals are back to pre-corona levels so now we can open things back up slowly and the hospitals won’t be overloaded. If they start getting overloaded we cinch back down again for a bit.

The whole Talley vs. Wintour thing always feels like Alien vs. Predator to me. I mean, neither of them seems like a particularly good person, so I’m not sure who “wins” out of this. I certainly don’t feel like I’m winning.

Wintour wears those giant sunglasses to hide the fact that she’s a LITERAL wasp.

It’s weird when people who don’t change their own look for decades are in charge of cutting edge fashion.

There is so much bigotry, hatred and idiocy in her essay that it’s hard to process it all.

Let’s be clear, J.K. Rowling’s statements on trans issues are abhorrent, and your criticism of her on that point is apt. But you undermine your credibility and distract from that criticism when you include unnecessary snark like “inexplicably popular children’s books and poorly written adult thrillers.”

Just a reminder that this Champion of the Women and Lesbians didn’t include a single lesbian in her hugely famous book series, and the only gay character was left in the subtext. Also, the only female main character was her self-insert.

Always entertaining to see your name change over the years lol

If you never caught him on The B from Apartment 23 - where he plays a parody of himself - you totally should. He has fantastic comedic timing. He was the best part of the show.

“The commission did not respond to a large majority of them.”

This is way more powerful of a message than the standard corporate messaging that’s been filling my inbox. 

This was one of the best calls I’ve heard. So glad I got to hear more about this hero! I almost felt sorry for them getting the aggressive calls. But then I remembered the 600 people killed without accountability and now trying to re-enact 1960s Selma, Alabama.  

I loved Friends when it first aired, and I love it still. (I bought all 10 seasons on DVD.) But the stuff that makes me cringe now is the many, many Monica fat jokes.

They did a lot to normalize “non-traditional” families. There was also Phoebe being a surrogate for her brother, Rachel deciding to be a single mother (but eventually co-parent with Ross), and Monica and Chandler adopting.

This is also reminding me of just how black Fox’s prime time lineup used to be in the early and mid 90's. UPN and The WB (at first) were, too.  But it seems like Fox just flipped a switch around 1998 and were like “we’re not doing that anymore.”

Just say the show was from the 1990s and not everything in it has aged well. That tends to happen with sitcoms.

There are definitely parts that did not age well, but on the other hand, they included a happy, functioning lesbian couple that eventually marries with the support of all of their friends and raise a child. They’re not sexualized at all (other than to make Ross uncomfortable, and it’s always on their terms) either.…

The show didn’t age well on so many issues like homophobia, transphobia, etc. either.