Comments on: Fuck You, Atlantic, And You Sucked in Bed Anyway

By: Cait

Cait — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:21:31 +0000

Right on. I finally canceled my subscription to the Atlantic after one too many articles by fucking Caitlin “Ladies Against Women” Flanagan. I see this is in the same vein. I do miss the insightful political/cultural analysis…but there is only so much insult a girl can put up with before she turns to The Economist.

By: Wistar

Wistar — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:54:23 +0000

Right on! I am outraged! And I should probably stop doling out blow jobs and trying to get my boyfriend to marry me so I have more of a case here.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:59:35 +0000

your brilliance reverberates all the way up to these snowy mountains– this is so good THANK you for taking the time to vent– I just don’t bother any more– tant pis, as it is such a tonic to read.

By: links for 2008-02-18 « Amy G. Dala

links for 2008-02-18 « Amy G. Dala — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:17:17 +0000

[...] Old Hag on The Atlantic articles – “I’m just going to move right along and add about six more fuck-yous to the Atlantic for its searing coverage of women in the past few years.” (tags: arghh gender society) [...]

By: Richard Nash

Richard Nash — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:02:44 +0000

This is why you should blog here more often…

By: teresa difalco » Blog Archive » oh my, apple pie …

teresa difalco » Blog Archive » oh my, apple pie … — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:30:39 +0000

[...] that note, read this smackdown of The Atlantic. I’m not anti-Atlantic, I subscribe … and sometimes read. This girl, however, is [...]

By: Maud Newton: Blog

Maud Newton: Blog — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:52:50 +0000

[...] Atlantic has posted two early Nabokov stories. (Via.) Elsewhere, the magazine is at last called out for its [...]

By: On the up side « The Books of My Numberless Dreams

On the up side « The Books of My Numberless Dreams — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:55:22 +0000

[...] the title before I slammed on the backspace key, then. But I dutifully went through some of the other questionable articles, mostly book reviews, that The Atlantic published in the past [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:56:17 +0000

This is all manner of awesome, Lizzie.

By: In Which Lizzie Skurnick Betrays Her True Feelings About The Atlantic « I’m Not Going to Do This Every Day

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:18:47 +0000

[...] In Which Lizzie Skurnick Betrays Her True Feelings About The Atlantic Lori Gottleib’s essay, “Marry Him!”, is just the latest in The Atlantic’s long line of pieces about Being A Woman Today that are guaranteed to irk a good chunk of the public. But my favorite response so far comes from the excellent Old Hag: “Fuck You, Atlantic, and You Sucked in Bed Anyway.” [...]

By: Saturnalia

Saturnalia — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:29:23 +0000

You’re killing me softly! (I’d like to kill her, hard.) PLEASE call in to the show today. (She’s on at 2:40 E.S.T, TOTN.)

By: Black Market Kidneys » sans context

Black Market Kidneys » sans context — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:37:45 +0000

[...] Primarily because my friends are not a pack of fucking douchebags. [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:12:11 +0000

God, Lizzie, you are in a FROTH about this and I love it! I hate CF and all of her friggin retrograde hands in our laps, everyone play nice EXCEPT ME doggerel. The fact that the NYer now chooses to showcase it makes me even sadder. Where are the real female intellectuals? I hate living in a world where she passes.

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:17:21 +0000

I will turn you to Hills eventually….

I hadn’t realized what epic proportions this bullshit had gotten to. I guess we’re going to have to get our real news from Glamour (which just covered Darfur).

By: Maud

Maud — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:28:48 +0000

Yes, yes, yes! You know I’m not a Clinton supporter, but it’s high fucking time someone lambasted the Atlantic’s most misogynistic publications like this.

By: Lyn (a woman) LeJeune

Lyn (a woman) LeJeune — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:12:47 +0000

thank you….you said it..Atlantic go jump in the ocean.
Lyn

By: ed

ed — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:57:03 +0000

The Atlantic’s best days are behind it. If I wanted to get a dose of priapic neocon commentary, I’d be an Instapundit regular. They are also very inconsiderate in throwing parties.

By: Verbal

Verbal — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:33:04 +0000

What irks me about the piece is that it didn’t have to be sexist– that she could have just told people of both genders to stop having such high expectations and make compromises, etc. Because life and adulthood (single or coupled or whatever) requires compromise – aka settling for what you can get. She could have made it into a defense of relationship compromise.

And instead it was all about how women should accept a raw deal because they’re not getting any younger, while men aren’t getting any older.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:15:35 +0000

Thank you and amen. That Gottlieb piece is excruciating: faulty logic, rambling prose (don’t they employ editors at The Atlantic?), over-the-top narcissistic self-indulgence.

I think I hear Susan Sontag rolling over in her grave.