💼 Careercow Jessica Valenti - Feminism & Hypocrisy's Lovechild

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Ah, this chick. I love how she's so bravely carved out a path for fellow females to become professional Twitter reactionaries who sit around shitting out unwarranted opinions on current events all day. Her struggle against mean words totally reminds me of those acid attack survivors in India and Pakistan. Truly remarkable.

Really though, I give it less than a week before she's bawwing about this thread.
 
Bitch I Might Be said:
Really though, I give it less than a week before she's bawwing about this thread.
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Whenever we get these femcows or transcows, I always want to take a poll of how many of us are women or trans. I have no doubts that men would be the majority, but I do think that there would be a fairly significant portion of the other shit.

Just to show them that they're being called out by people they theoretically care about, not just EEEEBIL WHITE MEN! Not that it would make a difference, they'd just accuse us of lying or ignore it.
 
[Insert Meme Here] said:
Whenever we get these femcows or transcows, I always want to take a poll of how many of us are women or trans. I have no doubts that men would be the majority, but I do think that there would be a fairly significant portion of the other shit.

Just to show them that they're being called out by people they theoretically care about, not just EEEEBIL WHITE MEN! Not that it would make a difference, they'd just accuse us of lying or ignore it.
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Our little community has a surprising amount of diversity on it and that drives lolcows crazy.

As for Valenti, for the longest time I really thought she was a parody account of some kind.
 
Patrick Buttman said:
I'll at least give Lindy West credit for being one of the few radfems that actually quit Twitter. Jessica and her ilk will continue to use Twitter despite their constant whining that it gives them PTSD from the 10 billion ra.pe threats they get per day.
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She's not a radfem. Radfems were my first cows and a lot of her positions differ from Valenti. Radfems are the ones that pick fights with trans activists and the trans get triggered and call them TERF which apparently now means Trans Exterminary Reactionary Feminist.
 
Daughter of Pomona said:
She's not a radfem. Radfems were my first cows and a lot of her positions differ from Valenti. Radfems are the ones that pick fights with trans activists and the trans get triggered and call them TERF which apparently now means Trans Exterminary Reactionary Feminist.
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Radical feminists are just feminists with extremist and usually anti-male ideology, like Andrea Dworkin or Catherine MacKinnon. TERFs are a subset of them who specifically reject the idea that males can somehow turn into women and then barge into women's spaces and take them over. However, even fairly extreme TERFs like Cathy Brennan don't support things like bathroom laws specifically targeting trannies. Despite explicitly disclaiming positions like this, though, they're generally portrayed by troons as literally raping and murdering them.

Valenti is just a fucking bitch and has as much ideology as a weathervane, just spinning in the direction whatever passing breeze is in the atmosphere. I don't think she really thinks much. I would say she's almost a mainstream feminist, just a really bad example of one.
 
RogerWilcoTheFool said:
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Jessica getting in on the ObemeCare repeal saltwagon.
 
So someone (allegedly) sent her an email threatening to rape her 5-year-old daughter. Did she quietly report the incident to police to seeif the threat was even credible while taking measures to ensure her family was protected? Did she then tell herself that any person who obtains a certain level of fame, even if they don't write book after book and tweet after tweet about controversial and incendiary topics like forth wave feminism, has at least a few less than ideal online interactions? Did she consider maybe it's just some dang dirty underage troll praying for a reaction?
Nope, she did what anyone would do: she had a public demonstrative meltdown on Twitter, calling attention to the threats and dishing out her own threats to quit the Internet. So remember, don't send her any nasty messages, guys!
 
Abortions4All said:
LOL, the racism and sexism of the publishing industry? Some people have room to complain about that. But not Jessica Valenti.

Look, I can't tell you how I know this, but Jessica Valenti was given her first book deal and advance by a publisher in a way almost NO ONE gets a book deal. The editor contacted her, without her needing to get an agent or anything else, and held her hand through the writing of a book proposal (often the tough stage where writers get knocked back because of inexperience). All the stuff that's usually incredibly difficult -- writing and editing the proposal, shopping it, understanding competitive books and pitching the proposal at a publisher's meeting -- she was shepherded through it all by her editor, who gave a series of similar book deals to other feminists with prominent blogs.

It's hard to overestimate the value of this kind of jump start to a writing career for any fledgling blogger. Now, Valenti and several other women who got those book deals are considered big-name feminists who can command significant fees just for appearing on college campuses and such.

Way back when she was first getting book deals of this sort, a black feminist blogger noticed that the publisher and editors weren't publishing books by black authors. The response of both the white feminist bloggers like Valenti and the editor who'd been greasing their way was "well, black authors just don't submit book proposals." They wanted to completely obscure the fact that Valenti & co. hadn't just gotten in on their merits, by submitting a proposal like anyone else, but instead had significant help of a sort that not one writer in a hundred gets in their career. To this day, they won't admit that they got help in ways that those black feminist authors were never offered. Very "intersectional."
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...do you remember Valenti's Boobgate thing? When she was invited to meet Bill Clinton, and Ann Althouse freaked out about her boobs?

Edit: found it!

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http://www.salon.com/2006/09/16/breasts_3/

The boobs that launched a career.
 
I do remember that. I remember how she protested loudly when a lot of feminists noticed that maybe she was getting front-and-center billing not for her blog, but for her boobs. According to her, even bringing up that she might be profiting from her looks was totally wrong and something only the jealous would do. This, in spite of the fact that her blog was always lackluster and her writing/analytical skills were mediocre at best.
 
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