i'm so pissed right now. i'm not sure if you mamas are familiar with jezebel.com; i stop by there sometimes to check out the posts even though i'm frequently annoyed by some of the content, and by how dictatorial the editors there are about commenting. they play this assy little game where if they don't like your comment you get "disemvoweled", which means they take all the vowels out of what you wrote as a warning that you're pissing off the jezegods. oftentimes it's for a good reason-- trolls and rude assholes, etc-- but i was disemvoweled today and i am PISSED.
one of the main "rules" at jezebel is that there's no body snarking allowed. so if they post a picture of lindsay lohan people are welcome to comment on how wasted she looks and how she wears leggings as pants, but not on how skinny she is or whatnot. i think it's a good policy, although somewhat hypocritical considering some of the writers' own snarkiness that goes on.
so in this morning's gossip post there was a blurb of "news" that said "Rosario Dawson will star opposite — ugh — Kevin James in a romcom called The Zookeeper. What is up with the schlubby dudes getting hot ladies?" i couldnt help but wonder about the fairness of this statement, so i commented "okay, jezzies, i've gots to know: why is body snarking okay when it's about a man?? that rosario dawson/kevin james blurb reeks of snarkinss to me. imagine if the statement were something like 'kirstie alley is set to star opposite brad pitt in new movie...what's up with schlubby ladies getting hot dudes?' i'd get disemvoweled for saying something like that, no?"
and imagine my fucking surprise when i checked back to see what the other readers thought and my comment had been reduced to "ky, jzzs, 'v gts t knw: why s bdy snrkng ky whn t's bt mn?? tht rsr dwsn/kvn jms blrb rks f snrknss t m. mgn f th sttmnt wr smthng lk "krst lly s st t str ppst brd ptt n nw mv...wht's p wth schlbby lds gttng ht dds?" 'd gt dsmvwld fr syng smthng lk tht, n?"
WHAT THE FUCK?!? i meant to open up an honest dialogue about why we, as women, react so strongly to snarking about our bodies yet often allow and even encourage the same thing to happen to men. i didn't intend to come across as insulting or unnessecarily inflammatory, and i don't think i did come across that way, so what the fuck is their problem with me? I WAS CENSORED FOR CALLING THEM OUT ON THEIR HYPOCRISY!
ugh. you are dead to me now, jezebel. 
