jia-t
Jia Tolentino
jia-t
Deputy Editor, Jezebel

hahaha quite a few of my friends in music feel the same way but i stand by my teen tastes Read more

you are right. no one's at the office today because all the trains are shitty, and so i had to pick up the slack at gawker's weekly beer meeting, so to speak Read more

on the occasions that my friends let me come to the studio, you damn better believe i do Read more

Thank you. I agree exactly—the line is incredibly difficult to mark, and I don't think is done well on the internet. The best I could come to try to articulate it is sort of buried in one of the questions—that there's a both/and about this, both that people's economic and political and temporal circumstances are Read more

I don't believe everyone's pain is "equal," and say as much explicitly in the interview, and literally end the intro by saying "I can't say I've had it anything but easy." I think my experience is relevant to an introduction of this book, its author and the controversy around her original article. I think that you're Read more

it doesn't....... which we talked about at length in the interview Read more

thank you, yes, that is what i tried to say as clearly as possible — i personally do not feel like i deserve any sympathy, and i didn't then, which ended up causing quite a problem. lotsa interesting reading comprehension going on here in general though Read more

I'm not white and I'm not comparing myself to a soldier and I don't think I'm very important at ALL — I am a writer who frequently interviews authors, and my experience was too close to Mac's book and writing about it too relevant to engaging Mac's criticisms for me to leave it out. Was legit asking the question bb Read more

you seem to have entirely missed the point of what i wrote, which for the most part agrees with you Read more

like i know you are a sad bb with a burner internet commenter account but would you say this ("And then you have had such little exposure to the world that PTSD is actually in the cards, that you don't have coping skills.") to a soldier? Read more