It’s amazing that Jezebel is constantly calling out people for every ism in the book, but then their staff writer will just spew out hateful agism like nbd.

Plenty of young people believe ridiculous, toxic crap they’ve picked up on YouTube though. Kinda curious about why you’re so oblivious to your own prejudice in writing about someone else’s. Do you want to somehow believe that you’re immune to making the same mistake just because you’re young? Do you have any idea how n…

A friend recently described to me a meeting of the feminist action committee of a Midwestern college when she worked for a semester. It was led by a “male-bodied woman,” who proceeded to dominate the proceedings, mansplaining feminism and women’s experience, talking over everyone else. Maybe it’s also time to stop…

Like that Pepsi ad, I think what really bugs some people about this is that it show just how easily wokeness can be commodified. It’s actually pretty compatible with corporate agenda. What does it really mean if you don’t want to change the way the world works beyond making sure there’s a wider assortment of colors…

The giveaway should have been instant when they got to the part where she describes the box as filled with stuff and “fun confetti.” Confetti is never “fun” when it’s used to pack a box you want to open at home (or, really, anywhere). Having to haul out the dustpan and brush is never fun.

All of these people are so unbelievably vapid and tedious that I have to go get a double espresso now.

The answer to what Franzen would like is pretty obvious, since he’s written a lot about his admiration for Alice Munro and he helped Nell Zink get published. Munro and Zink: Two writers with very different careers who have clearly never felt obliged to pander to anyone. That would be because they are actual artists…