Patriarchy Tag

Jezebel, the sassy feminist website that launched from the rib of Gawker, is shutting down. Citing the “economic headwinds rattling [the] industry,” G/O Media, the parent company of Jezebel, said on Thursday that it will suspend publication of Jezebel after it failed to search out a buyer during a troublesome economic slog for digital publishers. The choice will impact 23 employees, including all the Jezebel staff and G/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown, who will exit the corporate. Launched in 2007 by author Anna Holmes, Jezebel quickly became a must-read for a young generation of third-wave feminists laboring amid a really much intact patriarchy. The Recent York-centric site offered a daring and caustic critique of traditional women’s magazines, with their male-gaze-centered deal...