Four Minutes Of My Life I Can Never Get Back
[guest post by Dana]
For a reason which can only be attributed to some bizarre shift in the universe, I followed this tweet and lost 4 minutes of my life.
Cosmopolitan Magazine writer Jill Filipovic seriously wonders why serious female writers who write for Cosmo and other women’s mags, aren’t taken seriously!
Oh, The Unfairness of it All:
[W]hen I tell “serious men” that I’m a political reporter for Cosmpolitan.com, their facial expressions soften into a sort of visual head-pat. When I quickly — often too quickly, a symptom of my own soft prejudice and lingering anxiety about what name-dropping a women’s magazine says about my intelligence and my skills as a journalist — add that before this I was a columnist at The Guardian and a contributor to publications like Al Jazeera America and The Nation, the light flickers back behind their eyes, along with the question: Why are you writing there?
Seriously, Jill, you really can’t figure out why people might not take anything in Cosmo seriously?
Personally, I’m so exhausted by their covers alone and finding out there are yet 50 or 60 or 70 more things to learn to drive him wild, that there simply isn’t the energy or will left to actually open up the magazine and read it.
(You’re welcome, you guys.)
–Dana
If you want to be taken seriously be a serious person. It’s so easy.
Glenn (647d76) — 7/31/2014 @ 5:49 pmi liked cameron diaz in that movie with the jaguars
she’s stupid though
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 5:59 pmalso someone at cosmo should’ve told her hey lady your boob is hanging out
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 6:01 pmoh and while we’re talking about dippy broads here’s this
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 6:20 pmCosmo is where I always turn first for hard hitting political journalism!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/31/2014 @ 7:41 pmJust imagine the opposite sex version of each headline and you see how silly they are.
Sabo (f655ef) — 7/31/2014 @ 7:51 pmCosmo might not rank highly, but surely it ranks higher than the rest of her resume. It’s like a clean sweep of left-wing dingbat journalism.
Craig Mc (299f38) — 7/31/2014 @ 7:57 pmGiven her resume’ Cosmo is likely the most prestigious place she has worked. It is certainly the least offensive. If I met someone who worked for The Guardian at a party I would turn my back on them and shun them. It would certainly be a sure sign I need a better circle of friends.
Thatch (8ace20) — 7/31/2014 @ 7:59 pm“Just imagine the opposite sex version of each headline and you see how silly they are.”
Sabo – I’m a sucker for good articles on manscaping, but that’s just me.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/31/2014 @ 9:17 pmshe really does have nice eyes for a stupid person
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 9:31 pmWhen I read this, having breezed over the name of the complaining journalist, I thought it was at least a finance or policy writer who had found a home doing a token “serious” article for Cosmo every month.
Then I saw that it was Jill Filipovic. She’s an abortion writer. I don’t mean that she’s an abortion policy, law, ethics, philosophy, or science writer: she’s an abortion writer. As but one example, she wrote a blog post claiming that there is no way to outlaw abortion without performing spot checks on women’s tampons to determine if unimplanted zygotes died. Despite the fact that she’s a lawyer, she did not comprehend that society can ban certain willful acts and then wait for evidence that those willful acts have occurred, before seeking evidence of a commission of a crime.
I cannot fathom why anyone would take her seriously as a writer. Cosmo is completely beside the point.
bridget (37b281) — 7/31/2014 @ 9:37 pmno the remarks referred therein, are minutes you can’t get back
http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-rips-ginsburg-for-disparaging-her-scotus-colleagues-because-they-dont-agree-with-her/
all these magazines, use left wing reporters, remember the wretched hagiography of Gosnell’s gal, to stir the fuddle, to action,
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/31/2014 @ 9:47 pmbridget,
You’re absolutely right about Filipovic and her abortion writing. Her response to Palin’s comments on Emily Letts (posted about here) is telling.
Anyway, while Cosmo may seem beside the point, it is within the pages of this popular crude and bizarre (mis)characterization of women that Filipovic is provided with the fertile ground to lecture the unwashed masses about respect, worth and equality. And to take it a step further, when one is familiar with her abortion writings in the mag, one realizes it is she who most ironically, devalues women more than most.
Dana (4dbf62) — 7/31/2014 @ 10:41 pmDana – Unlike you, I do not think Jill would make me a sammich and fetch me a beverage. 🙂
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/31/2014 @ 10:43 pmLet me tell you, daley, the *only* reason I am barefoot is because it’s the dead of summer and about a bazillion degrees, otherwise, you’d find yourself on the receiving end of a well-appointed, yet stylish, heel!
Dana (4dbf62) — 7/31/2014 @ 10:51 pmShe does seem to have a thing about the Huntress, doesn’t she, I imagine she’s a big fan of Red Squaw, Elizabeth Warren, and had Wendy Davis, on her BFF list,
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/31/2014 @ 11:12 pmthe truth is beside the point, consider the properly named jezebel.
narciso (ee1f88) — 7/31/2014 @ 11:45 pmfor the record i did vote in that one
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 11:49 pmbut damn she dumb
happyfeet (8ce051) — 7/31/2014 @ 11:51 pmThis is too weird. She adds this thinking it helps.
“Oh, they’re not taking e seriously because I write for Cosmo. Let me throw in I used to write for The Guardian and Al Jazeera.”
And in their world,it does!
Steve57 (0ff9ec) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:00 amMaybe you’re not taking e seriously because I write for Cosmo. Let me add I also was the national security reporter for National Lampoon and The Onion.
Steve57 (0ff9ec) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:07 amwhat dimbulb hoochie jill doesn’t understand is if you’re paying the rent writing for any book whatsoever, american or otherwise
you really don’t get to whine about respect
you got more respect than most already, and likely more than you deserve
given that you’re working in a rapidly dying industry
that is rapidly dying
like honeybees
and things in california what require water
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:15 amyou called me what
you heard me
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:20 amThree way redundancy for 25 extra points!
😎
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:47 amCosmo used to be worse, if you can imagine. I do the shopping for the household and always have, so I see a lot of magazines in the checkout lane. There was a time, years back, when 9 Cosmo cover girls out of a year wold look like they had just gotten hit in the back of the head with a 2 by 4. They all had a slack faced, stunned expression. I could have understood that in a “Men’s” magazine, but in a magazine nominally for women, it was more than a little creepy. They aren’t like that now.
Can’t say that I would go there for insightful reporting, though.
C. S. P. Schofield (e8b801) — 8/1/2014 @ 12:48 amWith a resume like that it won’t be long until she works for the gubmint.
mg (31009b) — 8/1/2014 @ 2:47 amCosmo at $3.99 or a seedless watermelon (ripe and bigger than a basketball) for $4 bucks ???
Decisions are so difficult, I just can’t make-up my mind.
ropelight (36b164) — 8/1/2014 @ 5:57 amDana, I hear you. What I was trying to get at is that Jill Filipovic is not even Judith Jarvis Thompson; she’s not forging new philosophical, ethical, etc., ground in the abortion debate. A very effective summary of her writing is “Pro-choice = good; pro-life = bad, backwards, etc.”
She’s a lawyer who cannot even bother herself to learn about how pro-life laws were implemented prior to Roe or how they work in countries like Ireland or Malta. As a pro-life woman, I love that she’s the standard-bearer for the pro-choice side: she’s easy to rebut. But in terms of “serious journalism,” she’s a hack.
bridget (37b281) — 8/1/2014 @ 6:00 amDo any serious people read Cosmo? She should think about her audience.
rochf (f3fbb0) — 8/1/2014 @ 7:43 amMJ Kay @MJXsky
@AmandaMarcotte @JillFilipovic Perhaps people judge magazines by their cover.
MJXsky (adcb77) — 8/1/2014 @ 9:14 amhttps://twitter.com/MJXsky/status/495170911679836160
The Guardian? Al Jazeera America and The Nation? I don’t think it’s the Cosmo gig that pegs the unserious meter.
Funeral Guy (afbf7b) — 8/1/2014 @ 9:10 pmi think she’s thinking wistfully of the respect Rolling Stone writers get, while touching herself
but that would mean she didn’t get the memo that Rolling Stone‘s respectability utterly imploded when they published their Boston terrorist Tiger Beat cover
So what are we left with? Jill needs to read the memos. It’s just that simple.
happyfeet (8ce051) — 8/1/2014 @ 9:14 pmMore, more, more, Cameron, and much less Jill….Pleeze!
askeptic (efcf22) — 8/2/2014 @ 11:00 am