Accompanied by another writer leaping in and heaping on praise.

it was too dry. like idk i consider myself VERY dry and i really love vicious, cutting satire, but i was honestly unsure of the whole thing and i felt like i didn’t know what to do with my hands. the only reason i thought it was satire? because it seemed to mean for jez, and i assumed there was a joke i was missing.

If you thought it was perfect satire then that’s ok, but the amount of people not sure or taking offense seems to imply that this generally failed. It takes so long to get off the ground that it only finds itself near the end of the piece and doesn’t have the comedic/satirical turn early enough to get the reader on…

I think - and I may be totally wrong - it was the intense descriptions of body types and just how all body types look horrible (short and busty? bad! tall and slim? bad!) in them that might have rubbed people the wrong way in the beginning, before they entertained the idea that it could be satire...

Does that really make her a genius? Or just not very good at satire?

It’s not very well done if nobody can recognize it as satire, though.

With all due respect, if this is satire, it’s very poorly done. Most readers of this site are educated, bright, and quite humorous. If this was even a moderately well-written satire piece, more readers would have realized it.

Is that what was decided after the intended narrative didn’t catch on? LOL nice try.

But is it satire? I don’t get the impression that the author is mocking people who hold the belief that people with certain body types should not be allowed to wear certain articles of clothing. Seems more like she honestly has these beliefs and she’s just trying to be snarky about it. Also, it’s just not very funny?

Yeah, I’m reading thru the comments. But damn, that hit me really hard. I’m usually pretty good about rolling my eyes and moving along.

I think it’s when people request that the squishy bread be scooped out of the bagel so it’s less carbs? I have actually done this myself w really big bagels sometimes bc they are too filling to finish but I want all the garlic/sesame/etc on top. I am kinda gross sometimes,

Does it feel to you like this is exactly the sort of article Jezebel used to tear apart?

I love maxi dresses, and they look fucking awesome on me if I do say so myself (and I do).

I feel there is a caveat to the Maxi Dress debate. And that is, they DO look good on very tall people. I say this as a very tall person and one who ever time I wear a maxi dress gets compliments on it. It’s one of the few things that tall-ys can get away with (along with certain type of drop crotch pants).

It’s a parody of Dirty Dancing. A parody where he’s rejecting her because she’s a Bulls fan and he’s a Cavs fan.

Everything is problematic. Everything.

Yeah you only get to be pissed off about hitler. Everything else is just wasting time

So, does this mean we have nothing to be outraged about? Or, do we have . . . two things?!?

I rub a little on my face like war paint before stressful high stakes meetings. Works like a charm.

That should be Minority Report’s pre-crime, not Mission Impossible’ s.