Yes. Volunteering at the damn Olympic games isn't the same as consenting to be photographed with the knowledge that the photographs will be publicly distributed with your identity attached to them. Existing in the world as an attractive* woman shouldn't be considered justification for infiltrating someone's privacy…

Women grew up with brother and envied them their anatomy.

Shit like this always reminds me of the time when I was at a casino's blackjack table (don't judge). This was 2004, and Missouri had just passed one of those anti-marriage equality constitutional amendments. Naturally, this was the topic of the table. So this woman says, "I don't like their lifestyle, but what's…

I knew an Indian doctor who relocated here and had such homesickness that his peers treated it as clinical depression. He made plans to go home, but stayed because his wife absolutely refused to go. They had four daughters, and she believed their lives here would be so much better - safer, among other things. She…

So it's "not just Lena Dunham," but Lena Dunham is the one you pay $10,000 for to get unretouched photos of her (for no good reason, except what appears to be some bizarre form of spite). You know where you could have put that $10,000? Towards a program that works to build young women's self esteem. Towards an…

Instead of putting out a 10K bounty on the real photos and getting all whipped up about it, Jezebel's headline should have been "Lena Dunham looks like her beautiful self on the cover of Vogue, here's why that's a good thing". The cover image was the least re-touched of any of the photos, and she looks very much…

Putting a 10k bounty on a womans body is really horrible.

Jez, you pulled this shit with Melissa McCarthy.

kinda bothers me that you guys singled out Dunham in this ordeal. I feel like you sought out Vogue's unretouched pictures of her, because you thought "there's no way that these photos haven't been extensively manipulated" because she doesn't have the "ideal" look or body. Then you found out that they weren't…

I used to be able to say that I don't hang out on tabloidy bullshit sites. Used to. This whole mess is such tabloidy bullshit. It's not even Wednesday. I'm out.

Can someone help me here? I've lurked on this site for months before posting and I've vacillated between feeling like Jez "gets it" and "OMG...WTF are they talking about now?" I don't know enough of the photoshop history on this site (I've seen things with Faith Hill and now this but I haven't taken the time to really…

What is not a good thing is when the magazine decides to take that woman and tweak her appearance enough such that she's "acceptable" for the cover.

She's polite, at least, for not calling out Jezebel for calling her fat and unattractive. Which is what all this underhanded concern trolling was really saying. "LOL Lena, you're definitely fatter than that. You must be photoshopped!"

Respectfully, if you guys have something specifically against Vogue then it would be great if you would just write up a big retrospective piece. The more you make this about Lena Dunham and effectively force her to respond to this—which no matter how you slice it is a direct discussion about her body that invites a…

Paying to use a woman's body without her consent for political (capitalistic?) purposes, and then shame her for her feelings about her body: What a great feat of feminism!

Actually, her twitter response was much better: "Way cooler when people do things out of pure blind spite than out of faux altruism". Faux altruism describes this whole shitshow perfectly.