Feminist-Jezebel Smackdown
Rather than try to write my own (no doubt clumsily-worded) post on the whole Jezebel/feminism BS, I’m just going to reblog kimberleecline because, well:
The most annoying thing about the Jezebel vs Feminism debate going on this week is that Tracie and Moe from Jezebel neither represent women nor feminists as a whole. Neither do the rest of us. I’m a woman, I’m a feminist and disagreeing with some of what they said, feeling embarassed for them not because they were drunk on a show called “Drinking and Thinking” (host is a hypocrite for criticizing the drinking) but because they are so obviously seeking shock value in the same way that pre-pubescent boys take poop jokes past the point of being funny. Maybe it was because they’re drunk, or maybe it’s because they write for a gossip rag that uses sex for shock value and traffic- which happens everywhere, Jezebel certainly wasn’t the first.
Anna over at Jezebel wanted to add that the interview was “not representative of Jezebel” It seems that all of us may have to accept that we are responsible for our own actions and behaviors, no matter which blog is happy to use our sex lives to increase their bottom line. We’re too unique to represent anybody else and if we misstep everybody distances themselves, women, feminists and writer/bloggers. Let’s not even touch on what happens to sex workers who have media mishaps and how quick our peers are to distance themselves, criticize, etc. Women as well as feminists LOVE to use sex as an excuse to abandon each other. An interesting lesson for Moe and Tracie perhaps and hopefully for the rest of us, since they’re supposedly our role-models.