How Jezebel has perverted feminism

anonlymouse · 2014-01-07T16:16:18+00:00

Nope, Jezebel is exactly what feminism is, and they're completely unapologetic about it.

frehop · 2014-01-07T17:25:23+00:00

Jezebel didn't cause it. They are just making money off of it.

One of the best things this subreddit ever did was ban direct links to Jezebel.

luxury_banana · 2014-01-07T15:51:28+00:00

How is Jezebel any different from feministing.com or any different from the implicitly and explicitly feminist prop posted in almost every mainstream rag save maybe the Wall Street Journal. It's not like Jezebel is uniquely awful. It in fact sprung up well after a lot of the established mouthpieces of the Cathedral.

It's just a symptom of a greater problem with what feminism is and has been since well before I was born. Even as a small boy I knew something was severely fucked up with the way the real life grown women around me were reacting to the whole Bobbit scandal, as well as what was happening in the news. Some working class nobody has his dick cut off and is accused--with no evidence--of rape and abuse by a woman who cut his dick off and was quoted by police of complaining about his sexual performance rather than any of that supposed abuse when they arrested her. It wasn't until later in life that I connected the dots and realized that these women were all spewing the feminist shibboleths of the time and jumping on the hate bandwagon for no real reason at all.

oneiorosgrip · 2014-01-07T18:04:27+00:00

The article is in some ways a good indictment of Jezebel, but Abrahams really misses the mark by describing the blog as the ruination of feminism rather than the response that it is to the evolution of feminism. The whiny, puerile, hateful and dishonest approach that blog takes to gender issues isn't different from the approach of mainstream feminism, or even "nice" feminism. It's just not as heavily concealed under persuasive or academic speech.

Space_Ninja · 2014-01-07T16:23:30+00:00

Same way Stormfront perverted racism.

yourotherusername · 2014-01-07T16:20:08+00:00

Before the Internet, being a feminist meant that your boss couldn’t fire you just because you refused to let him grab your tits. That was a good thing. These days, feminism is more about hurt feelings and trigger warnings, blogs about rape jokes, ironic racism, and fat shaming. It used to be about the pill and the right to be a female priest. Now it’s about outrage and clickbait.

That is the best part of the whole piece. It discusses the idea that is up for debate.

The rest of it, reads like a childish rant and attempts to attacked certain people (read the quote at the start of the piece).

Even when they make a good point, they follow it up with over the top hate and insults (that are probably true). I wish they had written it from a more calm point of view so I could share it with my Jezebel reading friends, but the amount of bias is so strong that they will disregard it out of hand.

Uncap · 2014-01-07T19:25:13+00:00

Victims of domestic violence are easily gaslit when a man simply tells the police that she’s “crazy”.

lol

Whisper · 2014-01-08T00:11:03+00:00

How Jezebel has removed the veil from feminism.

FTFY

hugged_at_gunpoint · 2014-01-07T21:30:39+00:00

This is hardly surprising since improv sucks and isn’t funny

As much as I want to agree with all the opinions in this article, this kind of flat, presented-as-fact statement with no qualification makes me doubt the objectivity of the writer.

soulwomble · 2014-01-07T22:36:46+00:00

Jezebel is a symptom of feminisms shittyness, not the cause of it.

VaginalAssaultRifles · 2014-01-08T00:23:40+00:00

And by "perverted" you mean "exposed it for what it truly is", right?

Stephen1985 · 2014-01-08T01:29:27+00:00

Its always cool when women find themselves on the wrong side of feminism. Best way for them to see it though

YetAnotherCommenter · 2014-01-08T03:13:12+00:00

A very well-written article which makes a lot of good points. I think the best ones were how Jezebel in fact conforms with and perpetuates a huge amount of misogynist stereotypes. Money Quotes:

"Jezebel plays upon the worst female stereotype: that of the gossipy, shrill, cliquish, therapy-tethered, cast of Girls-style spoiled brat. Jezebel writers act the way misogynistic men mistakenly believe all women act, with a stick up their ass and their nose in an iPhone."

"Jezebel is a gossip rag run by snarling, hypocritical shrews."

"You call yourselves feminists but you’re just feminine. You’re everything cliched and stereotypical about women the rest of us have worked so hard to get out from under."

Whether Jezebel indicates something which has always been rotten with feminism or whether it is a modern mutation depends on your definitions... but clearly Jezebel is the Zeitgeist of Third Wave Feminism (which is essentially Oppressed Princess Feminism rationalized by postmodern academe).

everyone_hates_you_ · 2014-01-08T08:11:15+00:00

Because some yellow journalism click bait website is responsible for the state of a 100 year old political ideology.

Ma99ie · 2014-01-07T18:34:22+00:00

That is a beautifully written article.

NemosHero · 2014-01-08T02:08:44+00:00

There is nothing in this world I hate more than jezebel. I have disagreements with feminism, but I sympathize with the core mindset. Jezebel? They're the fox news of the gender discussion world.

Title	How Jezebel has perverted feminism
Author	thedevguy
Upvotes	172
Comments	37
Date	January 7, 2014 2:57 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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