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The death of Jezebel is the end of an era of feminism. We’re worse off without it
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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Are we really worst off without Pop-White-Feminism from a website that made articles about the virtue of beating their boyfriends? Eeerh... I don't known, I'm not convinced.
And I know it's the example everyone jumps to, but there's a good reason why. This is still up. It was never taken down. Which means that it was okay to post and okay to keep up for them. No one thought there was something wrong with it.
REGARDLESS OF ALL THAT, THOUGH.
Let us not lose the sight of the fact that this is yet another fucking series of layoffs in this space. We are talking about people who just lost their whole fucking career, some of them worked there for years and now it's gone.
These are people whose life has been turned upside down because of poor management and greed from the parent company. And this is nor funny, nor worth celebrating, nor anything good at all. It's just depressing. It's just something that keeps on fucking happening again and again.
I wish them luck. Maybe they can get together and form something independent and worker owned. Like a bunch of gaming journalists recently did. Because we are in a world where anything even remotely creative or artistic is bound to be fucked over cynical monetary reasons...
This exactly. What's more is, I think far too much energy has been spent lamenting the loss of Jezebel without working towards a more modern alternative whose roots aren't firmly in shallow feminism and celebrity gossip. A lot of firms from this last wave of journalistic closures have spun off into things that reveal that the old publishers were one of the biggest problems with the journalism overall (See 404media, who interestingly put out an article much to the same effect as the OP) and from the sounds of it Jezebel was always one of the worst offenders.
Yes, we are worse off with less feminism. Unless the feminism in question excludes women, I'd argue for more intersectional feminism and for the evolution of what we already have.
As for the drive by claim. I'll not deny the article might be, deservedly so, considered in bad taste, but I don't see it as malicious. First, they quote the study that it is a response to:
Then they decide to make a joke about it:
Honestly, I didn't get it either until the end:
They wrote a piece that made people very angry because what it said is terrible. I think that's the point.