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JEZEBEL, FAILING TO FIGHT FOR THE FEMINISTS
Posted by Charlotte on July 7, 2010
Tags: Jezebel, misogyny, Women
I can’t believe there isn’t more consternation or anger that Jezebel chose to sell out it’s readership on July 5th, a holiday in the USA, by letting Deadspin editor curate the site in misogynistic fatphobic fashion.
I know that Jezebel is not necessarily a feminist website, and it doesn’t claim it is, however it has cultivated a large audience of feminists and I’m sure it has feminists writing for it. However, the occasonal rants about gender, sexuality, rape culture kind of go out of the window when Jezebel is no longer a safe space for discussions to take place, when an aggressive male is at the helm, even just for one day.
And dammit, I’m angry. And I know all my feminist chums who don’t like Jezebel will be a bit “told you so” but, well, fair enough.
Extra anger appears because not one of the big feminist blogs has come out with critique, the editors who returned on Monday have nothing to say about it and I feel like maybe I missed the memo when everyone decided it was OK to let this slide didn’t reach the Subtext inbox. In failing to say anything, Jezebel failed to fight for the readers and Gawker put visits ahead of reader loyalty. Fail.
Here is a rather good blog about the fiasco. No links for you Jezebel.
Tags for this post:Jezebel, misogyny, Women
July 7th, 2010 at 1:46 am
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