The word galling has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 17 in “Goodbye, Feminist Blogs. Hello, Gen Z Content Creators?” by Emma Goldberg:
Last week’s announcement of the shuttering of Jezebel, which shortly after its 2007 debut surpassed 10 million monthly views and later overtook its sibling site Gawker.com, served as a fresh reminder to young writers like Ms. Fisher-Quann of how much things have changed. The other feminist sites she used to read have closed, too.
… To an older generation of feminist writers, there’s a painful irony in seeing their websites shuttered just as that fight for reproductive access, which Jezebel covered regularly, gains new urgency.
It’s also galling to some to hear that websites like that can’t make money, even as they see constant reminders of how much certain forms of feminism sell. “Barbie,” which pulled in more than $1 billion at the box office, featured patriarchy as its villain.
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