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It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women. Nothing of value was lost.
by josteink 3y ago
It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women.
Nothing of value was lost.
- Bluescreenbuddy 3y agoSo where can women go for good advice?
- whatshisface 3y agoGood advice doesn't really exist in the same way bad advice does, because the same things can ruin anyone's lives but everyone needs something different to fix theirs.
- FredPret 3y agoI think it's the other way around. Anna Karenina principle: all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. Or: there are many ways to be miserable, but only a few ways to be happy. Or: entropy increases. A couple of pointers would lead the vast majority to better lives, but there are so few of these that you can't build a publication around it.
- whatshisface 3y agoIf every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, they each need a different change to become happy.
- graphe 3y agoWhat kind of advice? Relationship advice probably might not be the best to take clickbait seriously.
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- fullshark 3y agoTheir family and good friends. The attempts to replace those with technology/media for various uses have failed, beyond maybe some less important ones e.g. "what's a good refrigerator to buy?"
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoGlad we have you to tell us the value of other people's writing.
- slothtrop 3y agoon par with Gawker
- AlexandrB 3y ago> It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women. Maybe. However I feel obliged to point out that there are countless media outlets that fit this description for men, but when they get shut down a common reaction is that free speech is under attack and cancel culture has gone too far.
- chikenf00t 3y agoOut of curiosity, what media outlets are you referring to?
- bashinator 3y agoNot a corporation, but I've certainly seen that reaction to any number of subreddits getting shut down.
- Manuel_D 3y agoRight, but that's not analogous to a media company going out of business. Nobody deplatformed Jezebel. Credit card companies, web hosting services, nobody refused to do business with Jezebel. There just weren't enough consumers of their content to make it profitable. That's not the same situation as an otherwise successful outlet being deplatformed or cut off from commercial services.
- hightrix 3y agoA subreddit being shutdown is not even barely related to a company going out of business. The reactions should be very different.
- ameister14 3y agoWhen they are shut down by their host because they disagree with the content or are being pressured by twitter, I can imagine that. When they go out of business? I haven't ever seen people complain about free speech under attack at that point. Could you provide an example from these countless outlets? [edit]When Playboy shut down in 2020, for example, I didn't see people upset about it being an attack on free speech; it was a dated business model that didn't work anymore.
- api 3y agoAgreed, but unfortunately this just clears the stage for influencers both if this variety and their young man grifting doppelgängers of the Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson schools. It’s a golden age for toxic life advice. TV and movies always served up a diet of dysfunctional advice but it was at least labeled as fiction. Now we get a steady stream of cursed “how to be a victim” / “how to be an abuser” advice labeled as fact.
- rs999gti 3y ago> It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women. Didn't Bustle replace Jezebel?