allnightdiner

Moe Tkacik Gets The Last Word

lindsayrobertson:

I was one of the people who was really torn about the whole Jezebel/Lizz Winstead hysterical fiasco last summer. I thought Winstead behaved dishonestly and Moe and Tracie behaved naively, but I think we all agreed that everyone freaked out and made a much bigger deal about it than should ever have been made of anything said or done at a comedy panel show. The only tragedy of that whole thing was that anyone thought those out-of-context quotes represented anything about our generation other than a more sophisticated, and therefore more easily misunderstood, sense of humor than the last. Anyway, almost a year later, and because it’s still being brought up all the time, Moe responds brilliantly with this essay that, actually, might be one of the most “feminist” things I’ve read in a long time. Be sure to read the whole thing, it really pays off. Excellent.

yeah but moe’s a great writer and, while i agree she was naive in this sitch, she came off as more vulnerable than unlikeable. i’m still a moe fan.

tracie, however, is an ignorant, insensitive jerk. i’ve never once seen her admit she’s wrong on jezebel. even when she’s been blatently offensive (the roman polanski post). she’s pretty much the reason why i quit reading jezebel so much. the site and its readers deserve better.