Comments on: In (Partial) Defense of Jezebel

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Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:03:51 +0000

[...] the view of the content, all of the articles acknowledge that many to be feminist view Jezebel. In her article on “The Pursuit of Harpyness” write Pilgrim Soul uses the metaphor can be used that in some [...]

By: Rachel Hills

Rachel Hills — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:01:16 +0000

I really like Jezebel – it’s one of my favourite websites. I don’t agree with everything it says, but it’s consistently interesting, usually intelligent, and covers the topics I’m interested in reading about.

I like the analogy of it as a “gateway drug” to feminism. In many ways it reminds me of old-school Bust magazine, my own gateway into feminism circa 2000 or so, when I stumbled across The Bust Guide To The New Girl Order in a bookstore.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:42:57 +0000

Jezebel was my feminist gateway drug. I fully agree it has it’s flaws, but that’s partially why I like it. I don’t care what some slut-shaming, holier-than-thou-”feminist”, windbag says, Jezebel has mad feminist street cred. XX might have considered that before posting that article.

By: have.at.it

have.at.it — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:33:39 +0000

On the gateway topic: it’s true, feministing was my gateway to this website. I respect the people who run feministing, but I think that this site is written a lot more intelligently and with a sense of humor and irony that I appreciate. But I still appreciate feministing for leading me here and to places like feministe and Kate Harding’s blog.

By: Cimorene

Cimorene — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:28:03 +0000

@ HistoricUpstart–I call myself a radical feminist.

By: spielster

spielster — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:03:55 +0000

@PHdork
Denton is actually linking to this on his Twitter. Anything that brings his brands recognition he loves.

By: spielster

spielster — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:01:41 +0000

Ugh. I don’t even know where to begin and I’ll attempt to keep this succinct, but if you could even agree with Linda’s nonsensical argument that not reporting rape can actually be equated with raping someone and that providing women with stories of why you didnt report a rape (very detailed stories in some cases) and then have the audacity to call out the prosecution or lack of for the US military makes you a bad feminist, in fact a dangerous one, what does that say about Linda?

She condemns an entire site of women for issues only about 5% of them have dealt with on a personal level, yet cut them all down. She went beyond personal attacks and drudged up comments made while two of the editors were wasted. She provided no articulate reasoning for her site to be better, nor herself. So if the ladies of Jezebel are bad feminists, what the hell is this crackpot?

By: Pilgrim Soul

Pilgrim Soul — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:10:31 +0000

@Kethry: Yep, infuriating. Not to mention that that variety of woman also spends half her time calling Andrea Dworkin a loony.

By: Kethry

Kethry — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:44:34 +0000

@Cimorene, PilgrimSoul
As the daughter, granddaughter and niece of some amazing second wavers (who also fully understood the negative impact that class and race have alone and in conjunction with gender FWIW) it really, really upsets me that people like Geraldine Ferraro and Linda Hirshman have become the public face of the second wave for many people out there.

By: HistoricUpstart

HistoricUpstart — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:30:43 +0000

Whoops, I meant “a new term FOR those of us…”