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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)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza to c/feminism

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[–] Plume 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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...

[–] elfpie 2 points 1 year ago

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:

Women are doing virtually everything these days that men are—working as doctors, lawyers, and rocket scientists; flying helicopters in combat; riding horses in the Kentucky Derby. And physically assaulting their spouses or partners.

Then they decide to make a joke about it:

According to a study of relationships that engage in nonreciprocal violence, a whopping 70% are perpetrated by women. So basically that means that girls are beating up their BFs and husbands and the dudes aren't fighting back. With Amy Winehouse busting open a can of whupass on her husband last week, we decided to conduct an informal survey of the Jezebels to see who's gotten violent with their men. After reviewing the answers, let's just say that it'd be wise to never ever fuck with us.

Honestly, I didn't get it either until the end:

He was, uh, totally asking for it.

They wrote a piece that made people very angry because what it said is terrible. I think that's the point.

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