Fucking thank you. This is gross. This angle is gross. I have no words. Let’s hope the root has a better take. Once again relying on people of color to do the work that white women fail to do. I’m so proud.
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Honestly? this is about what I expected of Jezebel, a website that has a major “not like the other girls” complex when it comes to women’s media. You want to be the coolest girl on the block. Hell, you want to be the ONLY girl on the block.
Fuck this. All these assholes coming out against Grace is hurting MeToo more than anything else. Misogynists are jumping for joy that apparently coercive behavior and pressuring women is not seen as a bad thing. Everyone keeps slut-shaming Grace, or straight-up ignoring the facts of the situation. She came out BECAUSE…
Huh? She gave both obvious verbal and non-verbal cues. And what needs to change is men need to start ASKING for consent, not using a lack of an explicit hard “NO STOP NO STOP!!!” as a way to try to push further.
Umm No. Men should learn/listen to non-verbal cues. We all give them off men included.
And apparently we women are still responsible, because now we have to tiptoe around how things are reported lest the reporting be used as yet another misogynist weapon. It’s asinine.
the slapping and yelling wasn’t because women were better, stronger, gutsier, or grittier in the old days: this struggle was tied up inextricably in female purity and the stakes a woman faced in her eventual, and all but obligatory married life—where, by the way, once there, she had no recourse should her husband…
This piece is fucking shameful. You were silent on it this weekend but finally decided to throw in your two cents to criticize how the story was told and talk about consent “blurring”? Jezebel, what the fuck are you doing?
On verbal and non-verbal communication:
He repeatedly ignored her clear verbal and non-verbal signals of non-consent and continued to pressure her into sexual activity. How is that not predatory behavior?
She wasn’t into it bro.
No one fucking needs a man to jump in to tell us what he thinks women should be doing. Shut the fuck up.
Jezebel, What Are You Doing? Days of silence on the topic, and then what comes forth is not actually the thinkpiece on sexual coercion and the “ways consent can feel blurring”, on how predators purposefully use bullshit excuses about “miscommunication” to get away with it, about how Ansari is more representative of…
Why is it a woman’s responsibility to refute, clearly and unequivocally, a man’s advancements but not a man’s responsibility to ask for permission for his actions?
This piece is unreal. I’ve been looking for Jez’s take on this for over 24 hours. They haven’t covered it at all except to say that Babe did it badly. Way to have those tough conversations, Jez
So, Babe is not good enough to cover the story and Jezebel is only good enough to cover their coverage. Got it.
Would it have been better if they just published rumors that just happened to be true? They published a women’s account of being pressured into a sexual interaction she wasn’t comfortable with, and one in which the man repeatedly ignored her cues that she was uncomfortable. That’s newsworthy.
I knew Jez would do this story eventually, but this was not what I was expecting, but I’m not surprised.
Corin could melt all the flesh from Tiffany’s face with a properly timed scream, though.