Lindy West of Jezebel - xoJane

Can We Keep Kids Safe Online!? Can We Keep Kids Safe ANYWHERE!?!?

Lindy West of Jezebel — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:30:00 -0500

When I was a kid (the '80s and early '90s), we didn't know shit. Life was a frustrating/comforting maze of not knowing anything about anything and not having access to any information.

Hello, Fellow Gym-Goers, Look at My Fat Butt

Lindy West of Jezebel — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:30:00 -0500

Do you know how hard it is to walk into a building devoted to not becoming you when you are you!?

Look, PMS Makes You Moody, Not Completely F*cking Incompetent

Lindy West of Jezebel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:30:00 -0400

It's not that PMS doesn't exist — it's just that we tend to dismissively blame everything on PMS, as though women don't have any actual reasons to be sad or angry or bitter or resentful.

It’s Hard Enough to Be a Fat Kid Without the Government Telling You You’re an Epidemic

Lindy West of Jezebel — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0400

Even if I did eat a bucket of pancake-flavored ice cream for breakfast, burrito ice cream for lunch, and salisbury steak ice cream for dinner (OMPH GROMPH GROMPH), I still shouldn't have to justify my existence to the world.

Nikes Uses Fat Kid to Sell Shoes, Nation Rejoices

Lindy West of Jezebel — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:25 -0400

If this middle-schooler is feeling pressure and shame on a national scale and wanting to lose weight because the Nike Corporation put his fat body on display to sell shoes, then that's creepy and depressing.

I Don't Care About Your Stupid Vulva, It's All Vagina to Me

Lindy West of Jezebel — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:30:26 -0400

Dear Earth: Here is a thing you should know: I will never, EVER stop saying "vagina" when I mean "vulva."