It's over!

For the past year or so, jezebel.com and I have had a pretty good working relationship. I liked the constant updates, and I liked to check on it, and I liked Tracie and Moe's writing on the site. Then they fired Moe, Dodai started writing (aka complaining) more, and Tracie is pretty much out of it except to post clips from Judge Judy. Some person named hortense (lowercase h. is she bell hooks or something?) clogs up the site every weekend with 393587 posts about nothing, and it's just so lame at this point that it's not entertaining at all.

Here's how a post will usually go: Dodai will find something you hadn't thought of, highlight it as sexist/racist (everything is sexist and racist so this is already a yawnfest), and the commenters will show off how fucking-the-system alternative they are, using puns or Gilmore Girls-style sarcasm, and like bond with each other. Here are some examples of comments, picked all from random:

• Good Lord, how to selvedge the situation? /sarcasm/ I just can't get interested in quilts. Not no way not no how.

• It's because I don't like the way that entitled little twatmuffin Strawberry Shortcake is looking at me. What, Strawberry?! WHAT?! YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME!?!

• Hear hear. I only discovered Sleater Kinney a few years ago, and it blew my mind that they sung about things that affected me. It meant alot.

• NO WAY am I going to stock some dude's favorite beer in my fridge unless I like it too. Bud Light, Guinness, or Sierra Nevada? Not a chance.

• Well Tonya, I think that he was making a cultural reference that, unfortunately, you are asosiated...sorry. Um, my spelling is off; the S and C keys are stuck on my keyboard. Look at them. LOOK AT MY KEYS. I demand that I get to do this comment again from the BEGINNING!

Obviously these commenters need some outlet, and jezebel is as good a place as any to unleash these ill-formed "opinions" and "jokes." It does no harm, except to create and reinforce stereotypes about women 1) being harpies, 2) not being funny, and 3) always having something to bitch about. I guess #s 3 and 1 are the same, and honestly there is a lot to bitch about, but it doesn't help feminism for these women to be complaining about every little thing. Let's pick the battles we can win, huh?

While I'm thinking about it, what really made me want to post this was seeing both "What say you?" and "hear hear" on the site more than twice in one day. I hate those phrases so much I can't really articulate why. Ugh. It's over.