Twitter Is an Emotional Bitch
In September, when Donald Trump admitted, at last, that Barack Obama is in fact a born American, Twitter imploded. Many…
A Mildly Horrifying Year in Sephora Purchases
To my shock and mild horror, I became a Sephora VIB Rouge member this year—the highest level in Sephora’s rewards…
A List of Things I Miss More Than Alcohol
By the time you read this, I will be on maternity leave. A little quick math will reveal that I have therefore laid off…
How the Harambe Meme Explains 2016
Coming out of my cage
Our Favorite Jezebel Posts of 2016
As I did last year, instead of having the staff write blurbs about themselves like this is some sort of painful,…
2016 So White: The Year in Onscreen Diversity and the Same Old Bullshit
Many of the films and TV shows that held our attention this year were centered around the black experience. Barry…
Becoming Ugly
In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them—and it was…
A Fictional Guide to Surviving the End of the World
Here’s the thing about the apocalypse: You don’t know when it’s coming. It’s an obvious truth, yet it’s what grants the…
'How Could You Do This to Me. Question Mark:' The Making of a Real Housewives Fight in 2016
In 2016, I spent too much time distracting myself from the pain of being by focusing instead on Bravo’s Real Housewives…
The Trunk Show: 2016 in Televised Penis
2016 was the year prestige television finally heard the clarion call for gender egalitarianism in on-screen…
100 Ways the World Could End in 2017
The world isn’t necessarily going to end because Donald Trump was elected president. It’s going to end because we’ve…
The Overall Best Women of 2016, According to Us
A lot of men got away with it this year, and plenty of women didn’t do much to help. We’d like to take a moment to…
Here Are the Women We Have to Thank For Donald Trump
Women had absolutely no excuse to vote for noted pussygrabber Donald Trump, and yet 53 percent of white women did just…
The 50 Most Popular Jezebel Posts of 2016
You read these. You read these real good.
The Year in Overrated Pop Culture
“A MASTERPIECE” reads the poster of Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea in a font larger than the title. It’s a…
When Reality TV Becomes Reality, What's Our Next Move?
It would be putting it lightly to say that I enjoy reality television. I watch multiple hours of Bravo per week. I take…
The Best TV of the Year That We Haven’t Watched and Will Not Watch
In this so-called golden age of television, saying “there’s nothing to watch” is one of the biggest lies you can tell…
Men Who Got Away With It in 2016
When we look back at 2016, we’ll remember many things: all the mornings we woke up in the grips of a full-blown panic…
The Worst Songs of 2016, a Year In Musical Monstrosities
When the Jezebel staff was individually queried on their worst song of the year, an informal debate emerged: was Shawn…
80 Things Besides Donald Trump That Gave Us Panic Attacks in 2016
The year 2016 has been an ice cream sundae of realized horrors, topped off by a human that actually looks like a cherry…