In the middle of all this handwringing over your friend's consensual sexual activities,
In the middle of all this handwringing over your friend's consensual sexual activities,
Jezebel Writes Obnoxious Headline For Viral Story; The Commenters' Reactions Will Stun You
Tina Fey has the best views on Photoshop:
Fantastic! This is my favorite one.
The single best thing about this shit-show is the commenters. You guys give me faith in humanity. <3
Also: "A depiction of me" — depiction. That word choice is telling, and it's also the problem.
The only other posts that need be written from Jez about this whole debacle is an explanation and or an apology.
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.
Yes, wring those hands, Jessica Coen, wring them good and hard while you flush your make-up down the toilet and smash your camera because it has a red-eye filter.
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…
Jez,
Holy fucking YAWN.
I wish she would have called out Jezebel for being such assholes.
Admit it, Jez. You were wrong.
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.
I almost never visit Jez anymore and this crap is why.
And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…
Are your pageviews down this month?
"This is about Vogue, and what Vogue decides to do with a specific woman who has very publicly stated that she's fine just the way she is, and the world needs to get on board with that. Just how resistant is Vogue to that idea?"