No, no, no, no. This is the equivalent of trying to wash out a nasty protein stain by washing your blouse in hot water, having actively ignored the reams of good advice on how to deal with such a stain, then being somehow surprised and heartbroken that your blouse still looks like shit, and then finally trying to…
Nope. Y'all done effed up. Black feminists and other WOC feminists called this a long time ago. Nope. You don't get to sit there and write about your stages of grief. where the fuck were you guys when HS was attacking black feminists, having manipulative relationships with his students, teaching courses on feminism…
Call it what it was. Clickbait. You knew he was controversial as hell and all of his articles racked up big clicks and big debates in the comments here. Never mind that your core readers felt betrayed by you continuing to give him a platform. There were enough comments rushing in that it was worth it for you to keep…
Jessica, the tone of this article makes you sound like you are as big of a narcissist as Hugo Schwyzer.
Agreed. Have some damn respect for your audience, Jezebel.
I guess a direct apology, or acknowledgement of the flaws that underlay the initial decision, is out of the question, huh?
Dresses, dresses, dresses.
I think there is some issue with people not realizing that "telling the truth" is not "blurt out any random shit that pops into your head in the most assholish way possible".
For an example of the latter, see: The Invention of Lying.