Here’s the point: Jezebel exists as a community of people in which, BY DEFINITION, everything that is said must be feminist. Do you see how messed up that is? How can everything that everyone who writes for Jezebel says be feminist even if its contradictory? Good question. Is there an answer? The answer is: by asking this question, you hate feminism. Olivia Munn is attractive and uses her attractiveness like every single person on the face of the planet does. This should be fine and dandy from a website where a major writer/editor made her debut as “Slut Machine”, writing strongly funny articles precisely about sex and sexiness. But instead, Munn herself is tossed into the wood chipper as nothing more than a tarted up floozy who’s not worth the time it takes to brush on her whorey mascara. Gould is right when she says that Jezebel declared Munn not ‘their kind’ of woman. They did. It’s all right there in the text.
Gould is wrong when she says that the authors use these methods to further their careers – it’s nothing that mercenary. I think they genuinely believe that what they’re doing is furthering the feminist cause. They’ve been taught this because the structure of the written product tells them that that’s what they’re doing. In reality, what Jezebel and the other “feminist blogs” mentioned do is create a whole economy in which this fetishized rage is passed around in the flawed intellectual platform that they’ve created. It’s a whole market system of righteousness where the people don’t matter, the truth of the situation doesn’t matter, and the whole is reduced to the operational clanking of a machine. How do you debate a topic? By engaging with all possible sides of the argument, by encouraging voices, by comparing and contrasting logics. But Jezebel is never interested in that because that is as boring as Jesus Christ’s Mormon-style underpants. Like so many other blogs out there, what they’re selling you is ‘rightness’, pure and simple. That’s the currency you’re accepting. the insidious thing is that it feels so good to be right so much that nobody ever criticizes when rightness goes sour.
— the Awl points out a totally awesome comment from their post yesterday on the Daily Show v. Jezebel discussion
