Buzzfeed repeatedly and childishly acts retalitarily to actions against women a. responds to sexualitazion of women in media by making a hot guys newsletter 2. They are very passive and mild on issues they claim to find important 3. There is a general feeling of smugness, of better than you-ness. This leads to people thinking you’re a jerk B. Their platform 1. The format of a typical Buzzfeed “article” is very short sentences with many humorous pop culture references thrown in, probably listed numerically and separated by a gif or image—in short, made to be kimmable and easily glanced over 2. Buzzfeed is not meant to be a feminist site—it’s a industry—it spans 3 continents and has a huge fan base—there’s a reason its stock is 3. all of this makes it very hard for people to take Buzzfeed seriously and when to treat it like an entertainment site C. Their hypocritical statements 1. It makes their argument obviously biased, leading to people’s impression of feminism to embrace only what makes them look good 2. It invalidates their claims of the world being unfair by themselves being unfair 3. It ruins their credibility and makes them an untrustworthy source
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