You do realize that you don't have to be an artist to critique art, nor a chef to critique food, right? You do not have to be an author to be a book critic. Or a filmmaker to be a film critic. I could go on and on and ON with examples, here. Those who make academic critiques of published works DO NOT HAVE TO BE - and…
Basma26
Basma26
when i heard he adlibbed the 'i put your symptoms into the computer and it looks like you might have network connectivity problems' line from the flu ep, i was SOLD FOR LIFE on chris pratt.
Hmm. So that's what it would look like if a person had no hip bone.
She says "water challenge, I nominate Marshall, Adam and Tal" (at least I think the last name is Tal" so I'm betting they showed her videos and she giggled and they decided it would be cute to do. I also bet the water was lukewarm at it's coldest.
If she does, I need this movie to end with her students going berserk from the ka-sink'ing and murdering her in some unbelievably precious way.
WTF? Why would you want Guardians of the Galaxy without ALL of the Guardians? Like, the point of the whole friking movie was that ALL of them had to be there.
Don't allow burners to post gif images. This would also have the happy side effect of reducing posts where someone posts, say, a gif of people applauding instead of just saying "wow, that's really on-point and accurate."
To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…
Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…
On behalf of all Jezebel readers, I'm really bummed you had to write this, but thank you so much. Keep fighting the good fight.
How can we support you? What can readers/commenters do to push Gawker Media into action?
It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.
For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…
What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…
The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.
SHUT UP YOUR EMPATHY IS OFFENSIVE.
Google Image search needs to have a warning process for shit like that. You click search and if the results are completely disgusting, a message pops up that says "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS ONE? BECAUSE THERE IS SOME FUCKED UP SHIT HERE." And then you can decide if you want to proceed.
Because this is the essential problem with commenting right now; the focus is "what can I ridicule/scorn/mock instead of "how can I add something productive to the conversation at hand." Yet people wonder why the quality of comment sections has degraded. It's tantalizing to see blood in the water and pounce. This…