'Daily Show' co-creator Winstead had invited the pair on to talk about feminism, politics and sex. 'Sex-positive feminism: UR DOIN IT RONG.' 'There's a not-so-fine line between reclaiming women's sexual power and denying the reality of rape,' a friend of mine e-mailed me yesterday after watching the video. On her own Web site and in regular posts for Jezebel, Egan flaunts an unapologetic promiscuity and a relentless, fuck-all candidness.īoth of their signature qualities - that candidness, that tendency to run off the rails - were in evidence in a recent controversial appearance on Lizz Winstead's 'Thinking and Drinking' series, in which they managed to show a pretty staggering amount of youthful callowness, making dumb jokes about rape while knocking back booze. It's probably just a personal preference, but I've been less interested in Moe - who is capable of political analysis but too often lets herself run off the rails - than I have been with Egan, a feminist singularly devoted to feeling no sexual shame. Like many Jezebel readers, I must cop to a minor fascination with the site's two most prominent personalities - Moe Tkacik and Tracie Egan, who goes by the moniker 'Slut Machine.' (I believe that's a Shakespeare reference.) Both were great additions to the Nick Denton dramatis personae: They are deeply opinionated, prolific, and gleefully willing to broadcast their own damage. When I talk to recent female college graduates with writerly aspirations, rarely do they want to work for the Times or (god forbid) Newsweek often, they want to work for Jezebel. I try to read it every day, and whenever I do, I'm impressed at the way the site traded in Gawker's needling, East Coast cynicism for a kicky, smart-girl enthusiasm, so that spending an hour there never feels like bathing in bile.

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