I don’t know if you guys saw the Jezebel article attacking weddings, and women, and brides yet again. I saw it, oddly enough, because I started getting a flood of traffic from the comment section, where brides were standing their damn ground for a change. When I saw the article, I rolled my eyes. Because, oh what? Another article trashing weddings? Not the wedding industry, mind you, but brides in particular. Because you know us brides with our vapid vapid ways.
But this time it was different. This time it pushed people over the edge. This time something snapped. And it’s about f*cking time. A Los Angeles Love wrote an open letter to Jezebel that you should go read now. But I’ll quote the best bits here:
So many of your incredibly intelligent staff have recently planned/are planning weddings/marriage that it’s shocking to me that there’s not more talk about the hard-but-interesting stuff. You have a real platform to talk about weddings differently, apart from the standard woman-bashing narrative. There’s a real case to be made that the disdain with which some of your writers have approached women’s choices about their weddings indicates a real lack of respect and buy-in to typical gender stereotypes and trashing of a traditionally women-centric domain.
And honestly? I’m going to tell you NOT to click through to the Jezebel article. Because you know what? These articles exist because the writers are paid on page views. And plus, you’ve heard women trashed like this before, and you don’t need to read it again.
It’s time we, as women, stopped getting paid to trash each other.
Full stop.
