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Sadie
06/04/09

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Hang on, whose husband DID she sleep with?
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BlowJoy
06/03/09

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Spotted: Some hipster person who's a self-important, self-described, something-or-other. Doing something hip on the scene, but don't call it a scene, because ick. Using words like Quasi-anything, being super boring. Look out Blaire Waldorff, these people will bore you to death.
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Tracie
06/03/09

@BlowJoy: since when do i dress like preteen who can afford leather? i wear muumuus.
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ellaesther
06/03/09

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...aaaannnddd this is why I don't blog. It was bad enough getting actual hate mail.

(Also, and not for nothing, but as a 44 year old, I'm pretty sure that 40 year old women don't get to say "gotten gangsta" anymore. It's just... silly.)
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morninggloria
06/03/09

@ellaesther: I haven't gotten any hate male yet... but I'll throw myself a party the first time I do!
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ellaesther
06/03/09

@morninggloria: Wait. Hate "mail" or hate "male"? The former is unpleasant, but I somehow think the latter would be more so!
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morninggloria
06/03/09

@ellaesther: I'm an idiot. Hi. Have you met me? The idiot?
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MilointheMeadow
06/03/09

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Those are some nasty, petty words.

To me, Missbehave was like that girl you know who tries way WAY too hard to be sexy/edgy/irreverent and after about ten minutes I usually start thinking, "Christ, I just don't have the energy to deal with you."
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morninggloria
06/03/09

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Oh wow, is Claw fourteen years old? I'm aghast at how petty, immature, and vindictive she seems. I mean, sometimes I'd maybe act like her in my revenge fantasies when I was 16 and mad that some other girl TOTALLY WENT TO THE WINTER WEEK DANCE with this guy I liked even though she TOLD ME she didn't like him, but I'd always have the self respect and self awareness to never act them out.

Is this performance art? I mean, seriously? It's so over the top.
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awinoforever
06/03/09

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this is one of those instances where i think i have to thank my mom for teaching me to maintain some decorum and class in my day to day affairs as best i can. not to be an uptight mamma jamma, but JESUS CHRIST, PEOPLE, GROW UP. and they are all at least 15 years older than me.
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Sister Toldja
06/03/09

@awinoforever: AMEN!!!!! This is awful embarassing.
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Sister Toldja
06/03/09

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Everything about these people is horrific! Down to their self-proclimation of hipsterdom to their appropriation of "hood slang". Why are these 40 year old White women talking like Bed Stuy teenagers? And acting just as silly. Shame, yo.
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amowls
06/03/09

@Sister Toldja: I don't think they're 40? Early 30s at most. And they talk like that because that's how normal people talk. Just because you get older doesn't mean you stop saying "dude."
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vanka-vstanka
06/03/09

@amowls: The article says Claw is 40...
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emilyanne
06/03/09

@amowls: seriously? I've never met anyone who talked like that. I would find it difficult to keep a straight face if a woman in her 40s - as this piece suggests Claw is talked to me like that, actually i would struggle to keep a straight face if a woman in her 30s talked like this.
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Sister Toldja
06/03/09

@amowls: Normal people do NOT say "like all you bitches haven't gotten gangsta online" or "And watch how you come out the side of your face with Claw, you know she don't wanna kick a bitch in the stomach on her first trimester". That is not normal at ALL for people their age and it's lame and stupid.

I use slang too, but I would never speak that way and I'm significantly younger.
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Elaken
06/03/09

@emilyanne: That's nice of you to even bother to try and keep a straight face.
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emilyanne
06/03/09

@Elaken: it would be my version of the embarrassed uptight English face, familiar to Americans from any bad Richard Curtis rom com. Sort of 'oh I have no idea what you're saying but if I smile rigidly while hiding my bad English teeth then maybe you will start making sense to me'
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emilyanne
06/03/09

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And this is why the sane parts of the world laugh at hipsters. Jesus grow up the lot of you, what a bunch of over-privileged whiny nobodies. Christ it takes a lot to make me see the Daily Fail's worldview but these people might be the straw that made me do it. Plus while I am having a middle aged rant, all the people involved in this sad and stupid spat are older than me and all have terrible, inexcusably bad grammar. That is all.
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amowls
06/03/09

@emilyanne: They may be nobodies to you, but that magazine meant a lot to me.
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emilyanne
06/03/09

@amowls: never have idols, isn't that the way it goes?

More seriously, I'm sure it's a fine magazine but the way they're behaving is absolutely anything but fine. It's ridiculous. Plenty of magazines fold, it doesn't mean we all have to revert to becoming teenagers, issuing barely literate threats and he said/she said tittle tattle. It's just pathetic.

Sorry but the people I feel for are the magazine's genuine employees who have lost a source of revenue and yes actually the people who were fans of it like you but really the two people mentioned here are idiots. Or at least they are behaving like idiots and in doing so they undermine their magazine.
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emilyanne
06/03/09

@amowls: also reading back on my post I think it came off as more harsh than I meant it too - i have pm'd you.
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MizJenkins
06/03/09

@emilyanne: Not harsh at all IMO. Seconded!!
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iplaudius
06/03/09

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I think there’s enough for a restraining order at the very least.
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Jack_Burton
06/03/09

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The economy sucks major ass, newspaper and magazine publishing is hemorrhaging money, and yet a quarterly niche arts-magazine folding is the fault of one tyrannical hipster?

Doesn't add up, Claw. Grow the fuck up.
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Mediokra
06/03/09

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When I was in middle and high school, I would daydream about being a grown-up because I was frequently irritated by the petty way people handed situations that made them upset. I am now 24 and I read about things like this, where people are attacked for their personal decisions, see people my age and older using Facebook as if they were passing mean notes back and forth in class, and also witnessed a 57-year-old woman say things spiteful enough to make my 54-year-old mother cry.

I hate being an adult.
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Mediokra
06/03/09

@Mediokra: Um, "handled situations," not "handed situations." But you get the idea.
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badmutha
06/03/09

@Mediokra: Oh honey. That is why people say Jr high never ends for some people. You just have to learn who they are and stay away from them.
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gaudette
06/03/09

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As much as I commend him for taking down Claw and her husband I have serious issues with his argument.

A large part of it is the idea that young hipsters don't have the right to be angry if their employers shut down leaving them out of a job. He actually says that having a job isn't a right. And with this, I patently disagree. The right to work and support yourself is a real thing. Just because you work for a small magazine or a non-profit doesn't mean you can't be exploited. In fact, young people who work for charities and non-profits are often vastly under payed because they feel they can't complain because they are doing charity/non-profit work. You are allowed to be pissed if you lose your job. Not forever and with such vitriol as these people seem to be spouting, but you are allowed.

Also, Gavin says that "We never hear feminists get mad at mercy killings or public stonings or pouring butyric acid in a girl's face for not marrying the right guy but if a woman dares to take some motherfucking maternity leave, they do a whole episode of 60 Minutes about it." Um, no. Since when does 60 Minutes= Feminist News of America? Furthermore, I thought we established that feminists =/= giant hive brain that gets mad about all the same things?
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SomeAuthorGirl
06/03/09

@gaudette: I disagree with you. No one has the right to a job. You have the right to pursue employment, and to be employed. Employers have the right to hire you, fire you, let you go or close their company's based on either performance or their requirements.

Sure, anyone can be pissed at their situation if they don't have a job any longer. But making a connection between low-paid young people working at charities and these loud, crude, threatening people is seriously reaching.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
06/03/09

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Wow. What a bunch of "people I would kill myself if I had to be trapped in an elevator with" types.
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R_Claw
06/03/09

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I would just like to state for the record that the Claw mention above is not the same Claw (me) who comments on Jezebel.

Kthnxbye. She's mean.
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badmutha
06/03/09

@R_Claw: See, I was thinking of asking you R U Claw? And you would answer, No, R Claw. And it would be one of those farce-type comedy things like Who's on first. Ah, the comedy knows no end.
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AthertonMerriweather
06/03/09

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This adds to my suspicions that Jezebel is secretly Gossip Girl.
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Abra
06/03/09

@AthertonMerriweather: You know you love it. XOXO
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badmutha
06/03/09

@AthertonMerriweather: I was thinking more along the lines of Mean Girls or Heathers.
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andBegorrah
06/03/09

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