Jezebel: haters

Bill Maher: "Usually Girls Are Haters"

Sadie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:00 EDT

"I'm guessing you have more male friends than female," Bill Maher says to Cameron Diaz, apropos of nothing, during last Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher. Causing Cameron to assert that she's not gay.

Obviously taken aback by Bill Maher's assumption that attractive women can't have friends (all the backbiting and cat-fighting, obvs) Cameron Diaz declares that, in fact, she has friends of both sexes. "I'm a girl's girl...and a guy's girl," she says, adding that she loves women, she loves men, "but not in that way." Cause, you know, it's important to make that clear. Actually, with Bill Maher, sadly, we can see how she might feel that way.

Goop Poop

Anna — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:40:00 EST

This just in: To those who find Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP lifestyle newsletter too precious, tone-deaf, out of touch or [insert own adjective here] the actress has a message... She feels sorry for you. [USA Today]

Registration Required

Maria — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:40:00 EDT

Speaking of internet commenters: An eagle-eyed tipster informed us that gossip blog (and repeated Missdemeanor offender), Perez Hilton, has started requiring registration for commenters this week. The tipster wonders if Perez grew "tired of the haters," assuming that Perez ever read the comments, and noted that the comments numbers have decreased dramatically. We put on our "reporter" caps and selected an older blog post at random and compared the comment number to a similar, newer blog post. Final tally? The older post had 165 and the newer one had 88. Definitely a dip! But the commenter threads are still as awful as usual, only now they include avatars. [Perez Hilton]

How Marc Jacobs Came To Be The Most Reviled Man On Earth

Moe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST

Here's how it started: about 18 years ago a bunch of people were sitting around watching Full House and the thought occurred to one of them: that Stephanie Tanner is dressed so trashy, she looks like she's on the fast track to a trailer park and a meth habit! And what seems so glaringly obvious today dawned upon everyone in the room: the era of neon and spandex and bicycle shorts and perms and shoulder pads and Jem dolls Had. To. End. Seriously, anything would be better. Your dad's flannel pajama top would be better. That moth-eaten Goodwill sweater your brother mowed the lawn in would be better.

Anyway, a few years later this thought dawned on Marc Jacobs, a precocious young designer with Axl Rose hair, and, as usual with fundamentally "anti-fashion" fashion trends, he tried to co-opt it for the fashion industry, and designed a "Grunge" collection for Perry Ellis. I know, it's hard to believe now, but that was actually the type of thing that could still get you hated in the nineties. But there was no Rachel Zoe! No Sienna Miller! No nine different lines of Olsen Twin-branded clothing! So around 2005 Marc Jacobs realized he had to step up his game...

He started shrieking in public all the time! And loudly dissing John Galliano to his trainer at the gym. And posing for Harper's Bazaar in a tutu with an insane bitch who has been charged with no fewer than five vicious attacks on women who work for her. Then he posed NUDE!! He got a drug addiction! He designed some really hideous garments to distract people from the wads of cash he was raking in recycling some of the safer elements of"grunge," and even used himself as a guinea pig for recycling the Manic Panic trend. And most formidably, he got really thin.

And today he got what he wanted: a story in the New York Times about how hated he is. Oh my god, so many haters. Because he is so "controversial"! But the thing is?

I just can't get it up to hate him. Can you? Not to accuse this story of being the work of, you know, a lamestain, but. Meh. It's like, you know? The nineties are over. People hated Bill Clinton then, too.

Loving And Hating Marc Jacobs [NY Times]