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Jia Tolentino
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Deputy Editor, Jezebel

Well, I built a library and since I left have continued to funnel thousands of dollars a year for hot running water at my village school, so I was there to work, ya little troll Read more

ahhh thanks. It was interesting to think about all this again — I haven't in awhile. Read more

I recommend it if you're drawn to it — it's so very direct and ambivalent and self-conscious (and also maybe most importantly, specific) that I think you might find it personally challenging in a good way perhaps Read more

i linked to those in the intro — i think mac's *definitely* read all of that stuff and absorbed the message, FWIW Read more

also, this is how one of my friends envisions herjavec hitting the town

idk, try to sum this up in 70 characters and see what you come out with — like i said, really not trying to be snarky; it's a statement of facts Read more

i am going to start storing my emma photoshops here

Yeah, a lot of people immediately assume pieces on this site are saying HEY, BE OUTRAGED or LOOK AT ME SNARK ON THIS DUMB LADY, when the vast majority of the time, they're not (anymore). I am rereading this piece, and—not directed at you in particular, just the inevitable reaction to this—I actually think it's really Read more

I don't know if you were talking to me, but I don't feel snarky about this woman, and tried very hard to avoid that tone. I think what's interesting about this is that it can only really be useful to the part of the population that has a very large problem understanding that Muslim people are their peers—it's nothing Read more

i'm not outraged in the slightest, i say two grafs from the end that i agree this is within their right to free speech. i, like you, think that all this shows is that they're idiots (and more importantly, that UVA is not turning "anti-frat") Read more

I'm so glad that Outkast started their reunion sets with B.o.B. this past summer, I will remember the beat kicking in as the sun set at Lolla as one of my favorite moments of this entire decade Read more