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CW: re: Mourning/reflecting on Jezebel's shutting down, confessional writing on the internet sometimes about taboo/sensitive topics
This was the era when the online confessional was popular, especially on women's blogs or #LadyBlogs like #Jezebel. Women were writing in a way that felt honest about taboo topics like #HookUps and #DrugUse. Sometimes this writing felt like women's attempts at trying to be Cool Girls™️ or One of the Guys™️, but these confessionals were also often about #SexualHarassment, assault, consent, sexual exploration and empowerment, body insecurities, traumas, and family strife, among other topics. For better and for worse, Jezebel, #XOJane, and similar publications taught me what it was to be a woman, and they also helped me feel less alone as I was navigating my college and young adult years, as officially left girlhood behind and became a woman.