yeah the opening paragraphs are truly disgusting
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
If you really want to take a deep dive into gross Y2K teachable moments, I recommend this NYT Spears doc on Hulu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXG28S8cAJU
― Darin, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
shouts to jaymc for highlighting that opening when the thread first happened
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
“It was a horrible time for young women in popular culture,” Binelli said. Though he’s sure his Lohan story received zero pushback from his editors or his readers and “seemed funny and edgy to me at the time,” he no longer finds it so. “Reading the story today makes me cringe and I deeply regret writing it and any other ways in which I participated in the rampant misogyny of the media landscape at the time.”“However much I’d told myself I was making some kind of meta-commentary on the sexist culture of the day,” he said. “I was very clearly also perpetuating it.”
“However much I’d told myself I was making some kind of meta-commentary on the sexist culture of the day,” he said. “I was very clearly also perpetuating it.”
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link
There is shit I wrote back then which... well, not nearly as bad as that Lohan article but it was such a fucking GIVEN that if you were writing journalism and a woman appeared you were supposed to signal to the reader how hot they were supposed to find her, it's really messed up
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 06:18 (three years ago) link
Baby Sinclair: All Grown up and Feeling Nasty https://t.co/4lEPqrZzqq pic.twitter.com/Nu84cLgkt4— The Hard Times (@REALpunknews) March 4, 2021
― lukas, Friday, 5 March 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link