There's a lot of limitations in photography, just because one uses photoshop to alter images doesn't make them default bad photographer. Photo retouching ain't easy either. It's an art in of itself.

Fact: photographers have ALWAYS been retouching and manipulating images since the invention of photography. Even the absolute best. You are clearly not the authority you think you are. Photography skills include both technical AND relational/emotional.

I'm confused...you think any sort of alteration via Photoshop makes one a crap photographer, yet you think Photoshop Queen Annie Leibovitiz is an example of a admirable photographer? By your logic, she should be the poster child for what a photographer shouldn't do. It's not just the Dunham shoot, it's how Annie…

Have I personally offended you? I've seen you on here before and know you're not a troll. Are you just a massive fucking asshole, or what is your deal? My point was that these aren't particularly edited shots and that they were fairly true to the original photos, so the bounty on the pictures did not serve any purpose…

After spending 15 years as a photographer and countless hours in the darkroom, I am authorized to say you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. Dodge and burn, fool. Dodge and burn.

You're accusing somebody of using a straw man? That's rich.

Yup, thats why I said mostly.

What needs to change too is the way we do studies on the prevalence of rape.

most studies don't include male victims unless they were penetrated. This CDC study did but they counted it as 'other sexual violence distinct from rape'.

You make a good point.

I can't imagine many non-Scientologists or non-JWs working for the Church of Scientology or the Jehovah's Witnesses, respectively, but I don't see a problem with either organization not paying for those services for their employees. I'm staunchly in disagreement with them on those things, which is why I would never…

That's the thing about Jez: they'll espouse all sorts of feminist beliefs and viewpoints, but as soon as they fuck up something like the photos of a rape victim thing, they go running back to the "We never said we are a feminist site!!!" and it is just beyond frustrating.

I imagine that the label - and Jez's overt refusal to employ the term - is the crux of this debate. Jezebel is in many ways like the many people and celebrities that avoid the term because of the connotations and divergent interpretations of feminism. In my opinion, though I'm rabidly leftist and a fighter for social…

That's what bugs me about this topic. People always always talk about the misinformation and the smear campaigns that feminism has endured, but at the same time, what these women are saying is not shit that was just made up out of the blue. Valerie Solanas wrote the SCUM Manifesto and tried to kill Andy Warhol. The…

I mean, Jezebel doesn't say it's feminist either. So.

I just interpreted is as:

I was very disconcerted and uncomfortable with the emphasis, in the headlines from UK media coverage I saw, on the little girl's blonde-ness and the way the articles kept referring to her as a "young blonde girl" and repeatedly emphasizing that she is blonde. As if the blondeness is what makes the whole thing a real…

I like to think Kanye got pulled over for speeding on the way home, but got off with a warning after he explained the situation to the cop and showed him that picture on his smartphone.

So being a person of questionable character automatically immunizes you from rape. Gotcha.

This.

Do you understand the rape he endured at 8 can lend to explaining (not excusing, explaining) his later behavior? Dude needs help. Even the way he talked about in the interview was not bragging, but a clear way of internalization.

So the issue is that a lot of male rape victims (and female victims when it comes down to it) deny the situation and retell the story. Brown basically said I was sexualized at a young age (watched a lot of porn) and then nailed a 14 year old when I was 8." If indeed that's true (and, honestly, I have no reason to…