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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 06:34 PM
Maybe Stewart grew too fat recently. Fat people are always regarded as less competitive no matter how much anti-fat-shaming campaigns are started.
Feminism has always been part of the control grid and who knows how well connected this Emma Carmichael is. You cannot really talk about a choice of merit with a 25-year-old. Certainly reaches the younger deluded demographic and fits the long-standing tradition of CIA-embedded journalists.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 07:55 PM
Jezebel is a Gawker property, and Gawker and its gay proprietor will hire whoever will maximize profits. People, myself included, are more likely to click on articles with a cute chick's picture attached.
And the way Gawker runs things, they probably care more about how well you run and monetize a website than how passionate you are about the site's ethos. Manager over activist.
Assuming the same level of attractiveness, would Jezebel garner less engagement from white girl feminists with a black girl than with a white girl? Do white girl feminists have any racial affinity for their own?
Carmichael WB, Stewart WNB.
I'm sensing that Jezebel will become less stridently, overtly feminist. It already pretty much has - the few times I've looked at the front page, it came off as a dorkier, snarkier, more embittered Us Weekly with readers who think they're reading a literary journal.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 10:17 PM
I think a return of kings article aimed at Jezebels blatant racism is in order.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 10:43 PM
This is great news to me. We need more feminists kicking black women to the curb...God knows our community has been far too plagued by it, arguably more than other communities.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 10:43 PM
But qualifications don't really matter, it's Jezebel for crying out loud. Just run a bunch of pieces on hot celebrities, more articles about why X/Y/Z is racist, sexist or something and some articles on "OMG, check out this cute video of a cat taking a shit in a litterbox."
I think part of reason the white girl got picked was to inspire young, college-age women to aspire to write articles for Jezebel for free. Gawker gets a lot of its content produced by poorly paid writers that they toss out on rotation. I've looked through archives of the site and it looks like some writers only hang around for a year or so before they never write another article.
Further, no young girl aspires to be a chubby, fairly unattractive black chick approaching 40 with no boyfriend or husband. Stewart's life is exactly what Jezebel wants to avoid promoting to their demo: a careerist who isn't pretty and feminine and with no identifiable love life.
Sure, the readers want to have a career (creative, fun and empowering!) but they also want to have an exciting love life. A portly black woman doesn't suggest at all exciting, romantic nights or steamy sack sessions.
We are talking about media here: you want to succeed? Be good-looking. Don't be old.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-08-2014, 11:45 PM
"If it's not racism it's cronyism -- or something -- but it looks like Stewart was so much more qualified for this position than Emma Carmichael it's laughable."
Qualified to do what? Appeal to the Jezebel faithful? If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense.
It's not surprising that some feminists are crying racism - they cried sexism when the difference in earnings between men and women is discussed. There are simple reasons why men earn more, and there are probably simple reasons why Dodai was not selected. The idea that Gawker and co hate black women enough to risk their profits, and thus passed on Stewart, is a silly and superstitious charge in the absence of supporting evidence. Is Gawker willing to pass on a black feminist chick in the name of money? Sure, but that isn't racism.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 12:22 AM
^^^
Yes, appeal to the Jezebel faithful. Exactly. She's been there from the beginning and helped build that following. Even if the site is all about cat videos and the like, she helped establish that brand.
2Wycked: "But qualifications don't really matter, it's Jezebel for crying out loud."
Gawker is a media company. You might not take what they do seriously, but they pay their editors and have a lot of readers, so a lot of other people do. If a media company like CBS did this, they'd be staring down a lawsuit; so should Gawker. The product isn't the point. They could be making widgets.
"The idea that Gawker and co hate black women enough to risk their profits, and thus passed on Stewart, is a silly and superstitious charge in the absence of supporting evidence."
Never said they "hated" black women. Only that they passed up one specific black woman who helped establish the site in favor of a 25-year-old who didn't and who has scads less experience. Nothing "silly" about that. I gathered quite a bit of supporting evidence as to why Stewart was more qualified.
And this is not the same as Jezebel whining "men earn more!" because this is not a general, ideologically-based issue. This is an issue about two specific candidates for a job.
From my vantage point, it seems the qualified one was passed over. She happens to be black. If I'm wrong, I hope they have a good reason for their decision, esp. if they have to tell it to a jury. Out in the real world when you pull that, you get hit with a lawsuit. Having worked with these types of media people, I know they give jobs first and foremost to their friends. Fine. But when you pull that and there is a minority you screwed, it's perceived as racism. Might not have been their intent, but they left themselves wide open to the charge.
"Further, no young girl aspires to be a chubby, fairly unattractive black chick approaching 40 with no boyfriend or husband. Stewart's life is exactly what Jezebel wants to avoid promoting to their demo: a careerist who isn't pretty and feminine and with no identifiable love life."
This would also be a good argument for not giving Oprah a TV show. Or Wendy Williams. Women don't have to be exactly like the women in media they follow. In fact, some white women like the idea of a minority woman advising them, if Oprah's ratings were any indication (and granted, print and the Web are different than TV, but the general idea is the same).
Finally, if "youth" and "looks" matter, they can be taken to court for discrimination, at least for the first. Again, nothing would please me more than having Gawker's dirty laundry splayed all over media land.
It doesn't matter if we agree with the laws or like their product. If the Post and the Times have to play by the rules, so should Gawker.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 12:38 AM
"From my vantage point, it seems the qualified one was passed over. She happens to be black. If I'm wrong, I hope they have a good reason for their decision, esp. if they have to tell it to a jury. Out in the real world when you pull that, you get hit with a lawsuit. "
'Qualification' is measured in clicks and views. This is the same web network that published pictures of Treyvon Martin's corpse. You're treating the editorial position of Jezebel like it's an academic professorship at a non-profit university, or the head of a literary journal. The position might as well be the executive of a publicly traded company, except with views and clicks as the prime concern instead of oscillating stock prices.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 02:06 AM
Further, no young girl aspires to be a chubby, fairly unattractive black chick approaching 40 with no boyfriend or husband. Stewart's life is exactly what Jezebel wants to avoid promoting to their demo: a careerist who isn't pretty and feminine and with no identifiable love life.
Lindy West is perhaps their most popular writer!
In all seriousness, I think their demo certainly does include chubby, unattractive chicks. Jezebel (and feminism itself) couldn't survive without em.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 04:32 AM
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 08:38 AM
Does anyone have that behind the scenes photo of Jezebel's entirely male programming staff?
Read my work on Return of Kings here.
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Jezebel picks random white girl over Woman of Color
07-09-2014, 08:47 AM
Not sure what WIA's beef is with this. Jezebel is a site catering to a market (internet feminists in America) that is something like 80% white. It was originally founded by a white woman. I just don't see why appointing a minority "CEO" is the only right, just course of action and the move to bring on a "random white girl" is some kind of attack of the cosmic balance that must be called out. The tenure argument is completely irrelevant. Only very, very, VERY poorly run organizations make decisions regarding executive level management based primarily on tenure. In any case, the "random white girl" in question was selected over not just a black women with more tenure but many many white women with more tenure as well so its a moot point.