Since our fine company publishes websites for virgins (Kotaku) and eunuchs (Wonkette) and gays (Gawker), it's long past time it had a website for ladies and likers of lady-things. Now it does. It's called Jezebel, because it is run by hussies.
Magazines, Marriages, Menstruation And Angelina Jolie!
4:07 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Choire
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I'm coming out of comment hiding just to point out that that is the worst blog title in the history of time and space. I WONDER WHO THOUGHT IT UP.
Gawker is a "media" blog.
But I'm already a reputed Jezebel. I want my royalties and such. Do you know how much skeezing I had to do in the late nineties to get such a title? You just don't assign such names to people. You earn them; knee pads and all.
Am I gay for reading Gawker now?
"Celebrity, Sex, Fashion without the airbrushing"
But Gawker is the originator of the Gawker Map, Wintour Watch and other such delights. I see a subtleness but still. What's the difference?
The editors are kinda hot and use the tag The Crimson Tide for menstruation. I approve.
@Cheap Shot:
Yes.
@Cheap Shot: Jesus, I feel gay just reading Deadspin sometimes.
I guess that makes a gay eunuch. At least I'm not a virgin.
Kind of a shame your chick site has the same layout as this rag...
@Clarence Rosario: Jalopnik always gays me out.
I want in on that cat blog, God damn it.
As girl gamer that loves all things gay and hussy-like, I'm sure I won't be let down by Jezebel either. Thanks for spicing up my life at the office(esp since Striped Tie Guy just isn't doing it anymore).
Jezebel, sponsored by... Clairol Herbal Essences. What will YOU get away with?
Assuming that the new site is meant to siphon off all the women and the gays, I guess it's time for Gawker finally to go ahead with its plan to merge with MaximOnline. I look forward to learning which passages Jessica Alba would cut from War and Peace.
does this mean less boob/ladyflower talk on Gawker?
I don't like being matronized.
God almighty, this looks so boring. Sort of like Claflin dining hall at Wellesley.
@Aatom: Oh hell naw. SOme of the best times I've had here is us discussing our menses. I object to this.
What have we femmes done to deserve this segregation? We were down with the douchy parental hate too! We were there with the rape jokes and we added more than enough material when it came to the many names and puns for penii. Where's the eLove?
now that the ladies have left the party, can we get naked and fuck?
resist. Angelia jolie is not news. why do i have to care about her?
@TedSez: Well you're right. But see, it's gonna be complicated. They're going to talk about ladyparts, and we're going to print pictures of ladyparts. Then Denton goes shopping with his diamond-encrusted Amex and we all go into heavily sliding-scale therapy. Ta da.
@The Real JR: It's all about points of entry.
And I don't even mean that as innuendo.
@sloppy_seconds: But yet that comment just got me hot. Maybe I really am a Jezebel.
How many "Post"'s do we put before Feminism now? I've lost track.
This is good, though. Barefoot and blogging.
I guess no one on staff at Gawker is from the ATL area because they would have alerted someone, anyone, that Jezebel is the name of the area's regional magazine. Lawsuit, anyone?
@Faster: it's Atfuckinglanta ...
@Faster: It's probably more like no one cares.
Also, "Moe Tkacik" has to be the most google-able name in teh history of internets
Truly, "the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
We're still talking about last night's Sopranos, right?
huh. I remember auditioning for this back in november and never hearing back from Lock after my "audition."
funny, that.
Goddam you people. I was doing well on my strict Gawker-and-Idolator-only diet, and now I will feel like less of a lady if I ignore this new lady thing. Fuckles.
It was that damn survey, wasn't it? Not gay enough so you're ousting the chicks.
Well, you're NOT taking Emily!
@HoHoKennedy: My worry, as well. I like the Emily/Balk/Choire line up and don't want to see the happy family split up, no matter how dysfunctional Balk says it is.
Dude, I'm still waiting on that blog about lipstick lesbians, giant robots, soccer, and pot smoking. You know, the stuff people really care about.
I'm still trying to figure out what the Fug Girls might have to say about their leggings and flip-flops. It's probably not pretty.
This blog should've waited to debut on a dewy summer's eve.
i'm not sure how i feel about this.
@narnio: You're right. For instance, you can easily discover which Gawker editor she used to share a house with (where, according to a third housemate, they used to "take off our clothes and jump up and down on our beds, pillow fighting").
@BadUncle: Matronized! That unseats Josh's "Cooprophiliac" for neologism of the decade.
I should add, she said jokingly.
@sheistolerable: On second thought--nah, Cooprophiliac wins, but still, well done you!
@Old Hag: They wanted Old Hag, but some poet-person already had it, as well as compromising pictures of Balk.
@KimGordonsPanties: Are you my long-lost twin? Oh, I see, you were kidding. Well I'm not.
For seriously, it sounds like somebody has come up with a shit recipe for a blog. Even if I were a girl or teh gay I wouldn't read that internets. Have fun in the Red Tent.
I went over for a visit and my period spontaneously started. I love that we are already synced up, girls!!
Wow, is this the most comments on a Gawker post since the Deadspin bet?
WHERE DOES I PUT MY GAY?
Fun. But now I'm craving an Altoid.
"Blog hot", all three of them.
That's definitely better than "book hot," and maybe even "cable-news hot."
Of course I guess that means I'm missing the point...
Where's the introductory video showing them gang humping the website while wearing Prada shoes and listening to something grrlpower-ish?
Not to be overly-cynical here (a bad trait on the Internets, I know) but Jezebel is essentially three really hot girls with seemingly nice figures and a penchant for dressing in trendy clothes writing about being alienated by women's magazines?
So since I read both Wonkette and Gawker, that makes me a gay eunuch? That doesn't sound like a lot of fun.
@Turd Ferguson: Oh brother, you are way off. For records, you have to whip out celebrity tit or kick a baby.
i think it's actually written by fat middle-aged men, a la milli vanilli.
@OneHundredServed:
i'm feeling you. these ladies may write that a $2000 handbag is vulgar, but i have a hard time believing none of them own their own SATC-inspired pair of Really Expensive shoes.
There is a special hell for people who get KMFDM stuck in my head. Just know that.
Why don't they have bylines? Is that just a Choire mandate as opposed to a Lock mandate? I ask because one post listed "Lock" as the author's current fuckbuddy, which blew my mind all kinds of ways.