Because anyone who is the victim of bigotry should just hide, and then bigotry will go away? It's not her fault, for being on YouTube. It's their fault for being assholes.

What really got me was "I need to be strong for the kids that I did this for and people I did this for." She's so young! No teenager should have to feel that kind of pressure on top of everything else.

So, Mr. Smith, before you were stabbed were you wearing a shirt? When the knife pierced your chest did you specifically tell your attacker to stop? When he stabbed you the second time did you bother to say "No" in a firm clear voice? When you walked around being a jerk earlier in the day, weren't you pretty much…

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Time to branch out, perhaps. Takes all sorts to make the world go 'round.

Idea: excellent

Did someone crack open a 17 year old's livejournal account from 2004?

careful now.

Also:

Unlike Mississippi, we're your leading supplier of oil and gas, so perhaps we're partially responsible for the incident. Without our sweet, sweet petroleum, the dead guys might have been forced to ride bikes.

haha, I knew I was hitting a soft spot in the trailler park.

MS cut a bigger check then Sony did, that's all.

I have no patience for this bullshit. Expressing an opinion tangentially sympathetic to women is not "white knighting". That's just a lazy, intellectually bankrupt attempt to dismiss an opponent's argument without having to actually engage them on the points they're making.

Folks, get your bingo cards, here! Bingo cards, here!

You kind of answered you own question. There are literally thousands of depictions of male gangsters in popular culture. It's dull, unoriginal and kind of cowardly to serve up another slice of the same old narrative.

New favorite commenter! Yes, absolutely. I tried to use the Molly Ivins quote myself, but the Anatole France quote is so rich too. Thank you for being awesome.

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I don't buy their games.

Fuck yeah your post. Every word.

I see "but we make fun of everyone!" tossed around a lot as an excuse, but that ignores the broader social context in which the parody is being presented.

There's an old Anatole France quote that's relevant:
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and…