I have to agree. I've been in a wheelchair for 7 years and I have gone through this process over and over since my initial diagnosis of MS 13 years ago. When you have a light at the end of the tunnel, and you know your condition is temporary, it's a hell of a lot easier to tell me what I should be feeling. Knowing…

This. I'm disabled (and a very happy person) and this article just makes me go "blegh".

In the author's defense, the steps he suggests are very similar to what I have been working on in therapy to cope with a chronic disorder. While changing my mental habits in the face of a lifetime of disability is much more difficult than when in the throes of a temporary illness, my mental health has slowly, but…

Oh no! A week's worth of misery! You poor thing!

Oh, grow up. It's not about wanting their genitalia to look like children. Women shave armpits and such just to be smoother because women's skin is smoother. It is just extending that in the genital region, nothing more and nothing less.

Anything oil-based will break down latex (the original post mentioned this). And anything with sugar (e.g. honey) can lead to yeast infections. No thanks.

Black people like to be adequately lit too. I don't see anything wrong with this one. She looks wonderful.

I wish there was someone writing for Jezebel who actually had a basic understanding of photography and the process of retouching because no, they just balanced the whites.

Right. And since then, we have seen numerous untouched versions of magazines. I've lost interest in this non-scandal. To be quite frank, if I were famous and on a cover of a magazine, I'd actually prefer if they DID touch up my shots a bit (mostly my dark undereye circles). We all know these images are retouched, stop…

Yep, you guys are heroes! Jezebel- exposing women's flaws so that we can talk about them under the guise of body image since 2005! (Or whenever). Maybe you should, oh I don't know, accept that Lena and every other woman have a right to do what they want with their own pictures and their own bodies.

So the conversation has already been started, but feel free to pile onto a woman who is already constantly berated for what she looks like. HOW EMPOWERING, Jez. Do you feel good about yourselves? 10 fucking thousand dollars. Donate it to a battered women's shelter. Do something USEFUL for once.

Don't waste time trying to justify this BS. Y'all need to be formulating your official apology.

You can be as disingenuous as you want. EVERYONE sees through you, EVERYONE is disgusted with you and NO ONE is amused.

I don't think that's a fair parallel.

You know, you don't need to waste a bunch of money and throw someone's pictures to the internet for public critique without her permission to have a conversation about photoshop. This conversation is being had, it's been had. Enough with this.

I feel so chastened. I'm off to the woods now, and vow henceforth to never bathe or eat a non-porcupine diet ever again.

Why do they think it is?!?

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 swear, seeing wedding photos sometimes, it almost makes me ragey. They are so poorly done by various "pros" (ie people with a "big" camera that call themselves that). My cousin hired one to shoot her wedding in a very poorly lit church. The person didn't get any decent shots. She ended up taking the ones I had…

I read about her this morning and the entire thing forced me to give my computer screen a One Finger Salute. She never explains WHY she did this. She never mentions WHAT any results/consequences/etc. were. She doesn't WRITE anything about her experience, but merely posted 1 picture a day featuring Starbucks food…