It’s been an excellent screening mechanism for me. I love what I’m working on, but it’s not my whole life, and your job is that big a deal to you, we probably won’t get along.

It doesn’t stop at dating. I’m not sure why every asshole at the park needs to know my profession immediately

THE WORST.

and then there are the Hill people. Dear god, the Hill men.

This is 100% a DC thing. The opening line of every dude in Dupont Circle is

When I lived in DC I had dudes hit on me/attempt to strike up a conversation by bragging about hazard pay - like, that was the first thing they said to me. It happened three or four times. Am I supposed to be impressed?

Self absorbent guys arent all bad. You can use them to clean wine spills.

I’ve been on dates where I’m the one holding up the conversation, like Atlas.

While I haven’t personally dated in DC I have a lot of friends who have, and yes, I’ve heard stories that are just amazing. But I think I heard of way worse in NYC. It seems like in DC you get a lot of self-absorbent dudes who think they’re changing the world and you should be in awe of them for it, while in NYC you…

Most people would be fired from their jobs for responding to criticism in this way. When the very first comment is essentially “what does this even mean, care to explain?” a response like “nah” from the author isn’t a surprise. It’s neither adult nor professional.

haha tbh tbf TBC too many “to be’s”...anyways, to be fair and honest, I think the spirit of this site is that the authors get to do this. Like, Gawker and spin-off commenters have a certain...reputation. Our fave writers do too. That’s why it was way harsh when ppl on the outside of the various communities were so…

I get where you’re coming from, it’s incredibly frustrating when you take issue with a post and the author is so exhausted by 1,000,000 irrelevant, unfounded critiques from their other posts that they just blow a commenter off. Also that they’ll do this and then just bounce is fucking annoying. But again, they get a…

I genuinely enjoy Jezebel, but it’s definitely a workplace where people get to have their cake and eat it too with respect to wanting to claim a highly professional label without actually having to act “as if”.

It’s that sort of behavior that is the reason why Hillary Clinton couldn’t be bothered to do an interview with Jezebel. There was a period of a month or two when they just couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t do an interview with them.It’s pitiful.

I thought KY stood for Kentucky in your sentence.

Honey, please. “Professional women writers”? lol.

A friend of mine works on Beyonce’s law team. He/she (protecting my source here) told me this video was laughed over, encouraged by and enjoyed and supported in advance of its public release by Beyonce and Jay Z. (And then, of course, released on Tidal.) Apparently Beyonce has a pretty good sense of humour.

I don’t really like her - I’m just sick of the fucking cattiness on Jezebel. I swear, this shit wouldn’t have flown when Lindy was here.

She was wearing her costume for the movie she is filming while dancing and mouthing the words to a popular song this is no different than what everyone does musically and dubsmash...this outrage is such a stretch

This Victoria’s Secret Angels outtake photo is one way to respond, but I don’t know if it’s quite right.