Jezebel

Do you read Jezebel? If you do, pat yourself on the back. If you don't, why not?

I don't really know how I found Jezebel, but it's a blog about fashion, celebrity, and media. If you liked Sassy (and Jane before Jane lost its soul), you'll like Jezebel.

Jezebel did a post recently about re-touched magazine covers. They apparently paid $10K for an untouched photo of Faith Hill that morphed into a retouched cover photo. The point wasn't to make fun of how Faith Hill looks before being re-touched. In fact, it was quite the opposite. They wanted to prove that Faith Hill was beautiful with all of the imperfections that make us human.

Jezebel made the news this morning (well...the Today Show anyway) when they talked about what the site had done and what the implications were.

I'm not particularly interested in talking about how wrong I think it is that cover photos get photoshopped. Don't get me wrong, I hate it. I think it's heinous that women get left with this skewed sense of what's possible in their lives because publishers want to sell a lifestyle. But it is what it is and as long as women continue to give money to magazines that have airbrushed and photoshopped pictures on their covers, we're not really in a place to complain about it.

Mostly, my point is how fantastic Jezebel is. They're snarky and smart. And though they do get it on poking some fun at celebs, they also expose the stupidity of mainstream media and the dumb things it does.

Anyway, go to Jezebel's site and check it out.