I doubt Japanese companies are plastering that across their websites, and she says above most of her sponsors are Japanese.

I’m not sure how closely you’ve followed this but even when it comes to Semenya, the jury is out. They’ve adjusted the rules to pretty much specifically keep her from competing (it only applies to certain races!) so she’s going to be doing some races and not others.

yeah, it seemed like a really bizarre thing to put out there all the sudden, but it makes a lot more sense in context (and gives less credibility to the “I’m nuts!” defense - the entire blog is way too self-aware and simply the lament of the criminal who’s mad they got caught).

edit: maybe I’m slow, I thought trans meant f->m, not f->non-binary. The Instagram post isn’t 100% clear to me since I don’t see them using the word “non binary” and I don’t think it’s necessarily true that they/them pronouns=nonbinary if that’s where the term was pulled from here? am I just out of it?

well the issue with The RealReal, Poshmark etc. is that you often can’t return it unless there’s something physically wrong with the item - so if it’s anything pricey I have to go through the hassle of re-selling it.

WHAT! I was literally just there this weekend. It is honestly a good place to get designer markdowns and The RealReal can’t quite compare (I love online secondhand stuff but I’ve also been burned with buying any style/brand I haven’t already worn IRL... sucks to spend $40 on a pair of jeans only to find out they don’t…

I’m not convinced the school did anything wrong here - her scholastic abilities seem to check out so far and is it really worth it for a school to police their professors’ language, cultural expression, etc? Is it up to a potentially white admin to decide that someone wearing a leopard print skirt is stereotyping,…

yeaaaaa.... I feel a little bad because I feel like all I do is leave “why are you writing this?!” comments on her pieces, which is literally why I wrote “Jezebel” here instead of “Joan” to de-personalize it lmao, but... this one felt really, bizarrely out of touch. 

a small thing but in case ppl are new to this story, this piece implies agency in her “outing” but in the NYTimes and other reportings it’s more clear that she was about to be outted by black colleagues in the field. Asking to be “cancelled” was just another example of the way she tries to co-opt language when she…

I think it’s almost anti-intuitive to understand, for that matter, when our brains aren’t really hardwired for taking into account social media algorithms and everything like that when we try to perceive what is “widely thought”

All jokes about Marie Claire journalism aside, this comment stands out because - how would the content have really changed if she hadn’t accepted a job offer?

Joan’s efforts to reach the subject would involve sending off a random emailto marieclaire@gmail.com she doesn’t expect to reach the subject, but then making sure to note her efforts to reach them as part of the story, because in journalism it’s the minimal effort that counts.

the gender reveal turned wildfire

it is a personal problem. But I’m the main character

Well, technically they didn’t ask (in the way the headline seems to imply ) - the question was about the fires, not about his thoughts on gender reveal parties. You could hate fires, but not see exploding things as being inherently a part of the average gender reveal.

Can I get a job at Jezebel if I write blogs about all the Ben Aflecks and hair stylists I haven’t talked to?

I think she’s done some pretty egregious stuff... but I do think you’re right about the audience and Twitter not co-aligning as neatly as people might believe after being immersed in their online bubbles.

“The U.S. is currently experiencing its second recession in less than two decades ....leaving people with less and less interest in the attempts of the rich and famous to flex on the rest of us”

I agree, it’s definitely an intuitive, ongoing and responsive process.

“To be clear, Karvunidis appears to be condemning explosions or violence stemming from gender reveal celebrations more than the antiquated format in which adults celebrate the publication of the kind of genitals a fetus appears to have in the womb...