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- Aug 3, 2021
(Apologies if this becomes a double post; I tried to edit/append this to my last comment but no dice)
Jezebel.com isn't new; it has been around since 2007. It was, significantly, part of Gawker for a time, before that all went to hell. [Idk if the current format/scope of jezebel.com is at all similar to what it was then; the current version of Gawker is, afaik, nothing close to what Gawker once was.]
It was created as a sort of Beauty Parlour - a women-oriented snark and commentary site under a larger snark and commentary umbrella.
"Jezebel" is/has been commonly used in the last hundred+ years (more than as a generic idea of a false prophet) to refer to a specifically female "false prophet" - as an epithet for women 1) specifically meaning promiscuity/a promiscuous woman, and/or 2) in general, suggesting that women are sluts and liars, embodiments of temptation itself, not to be trusted or believed. Naming a "feminist" (ymmv) site "jezebel" is like reclaiming "queer" and simultaneously embracing, repudiating, and ridiculing it as a reason for insult.
yeah, I get that its gay liberal reclaiming bs, it's just extremely on the nose when it is a news outlet that is a false prophet. and it actually paints women like liars and sluts (the vulva woman is a pervert that's why she's troonfobe!!) and further demoralize women into prostitution and promiscuity (sex work is work guys! if you don't want to have casual sex you are oppressed by the patriarchy guys!)
TMI but I think it might be relevant. I got a small tattoo on my arm a few days ago and the healing has not been easy. it's at a part of the arm that moves a lot, and I didn't realize how much of that part of my arm moves before I got the giant open wound on the skin. it's super annoying and if I stretch the skin too much by raising my arm too fast or lifting sth it tags on the scabbing, and it hurts. I can't fucking even begin to imagine how much physical pain the TIFs are in when whole CHUNKS of their arms are ripped out. and how much worse would the healing be? I'm maybe more hypochondriac than most, but even a normal level of anxiety for that kind of wound would be pretty hard. like dam. it's not like I didn't know it's shit before, just when sth physical happens to your arm becomes annoying, and it's 1/100000000000 of what the tifs are going through to have a non functioning skin tag on their mons. feels doods
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