Hi Jezzies,

That's the one! 

No, I don’t believe a candidate who supports forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy and forcing her to give birth against her will deserves Sanders’ or any other progressive candidate’s endorsement.

I like this one.

Yea, that makes sense.

She’s brilliant and this isn’t a criticism of her personally. But Black women in particular have been occupying the fat, beautiful, brilliant space for a long time. Long before white women dared to admit their fatness to themselves, Black women were living out loud with their fat bodies. The white washed body…

An article about a decline in feminist blogging surrendering itself to clickbait tactics? Too ironic to support.

That era when Lindy West dominated Jezebel content for close to two years was really weird. It was like being white and fat was somehow equivalent to being non-white. Not even joking.

Dang. I found a link to her writing but too late to edit my original post. 🙄

Even before everything came out, Schwyzer always gave me the impression of being one of those male feminists who pats himself on the back for talking to women he doesn’t find physically attractive.

I feel like we are just arguing semantics. I agree with your points.

I vehemently agree with everything up to the last statement, although I think the last statement is a result of a headline that doesn’t match/grossly oversimplifies the article.

It’s almost worse that an editor would have chosen the headline. Someone getting so into their own head writing an article that they write a headline that makes sense to them, but that is confusing to some others is something I can totally understand and practically even relate to. But when it’s an editorial decision,…

my understanding is that the piece is referring specifically to feminist blogging:

“feminism is dead” as a thing is completely news to me, but maybe I’m not as Extremely Online as I used to be.

Sorry to be the person who criticises the headline, but I did read the article first, and then I went away for an hour and came back after thinking about it, so I feel okay about criticising the headline.

I just read the article twice, and enjoyed it both times. It’s definitely interesting to see such a methodical and wellr-researched history (even if brief) of feminist blogging (and impressive given how hard it can be make a timeline of any sort of movement on the internet.)

I’d argue it was the other way around, ie Gen X begat Gawker.

It’s good to hear that brownfemipower is open to being contacted and interviewed at all, rather than her previous stance of “don’t contact me, don’t even mention me, generally try to forget that I ever existed online.” Maybe some day, she’ll be open to her thoughts and works being cited, quoted, and anthologized.…

So racism, misogyny, misogynoir, patriarchy and women agents of the patriarchy ruined feminism. The same forces that elevated Gloria Steinem over Dorothy Pitman-Hughes, elevated the Lindy West(s) of this age over the Jamilah Lemieux(s) of this age . The common denominator is not the internet.