I'm actually amazed to see them responding so proactively rather than just hunkering down in defensive "it's not our fault, legal says so!" style.

I don't see how anyone can reasonably hold this company responsible for the fact that pedophiles are trying to use their service to rape kids. Pedophiles are pretty much pure concentrated evil* - if a service that children use exists, they'll try to use it to victimize children. Blaming the company for that is like…

So the other sites followed the system that Jez has complete with mods until the changeover? The new comment system on Gawker is a mess. The only people who're happy with it seem to be the trolls, who keep coming over here to threaten us with how much they'll be able to punish us once it's implemented here too.

And now my cat is wondering why I interrupted her nap to pick her up and squeeze her really tightly.

I think the fact that the first things I ever saw of his were maledom is affecting my perspective, because even when I see stuff that's not as openly maledom I'm still giving it side-eye and expecting him to start slapping the woman at any moment.

My brain is going right to shumai, which is inconvenient at 3am.

Yep! My hair is only a 3a, and it's hard enough for me to find a competent stylist in some places. It's even harder for people whose hair is curlier.

Oh yeah, that's incredibly annoying too, the way "kinky" is appropriated to mean "maledom/femsub". It's not that simple, folks, and those of us who are kinky but not submissive are getting a little tired of everyone pretending we're not actually kinky because we're not submissive.

I want to see a stable full of dresses. That sounds like a delightfully weird art installation.

In an odd sort of way I think of child molesters as even worse than murderers*, precisely because the victim will have many years of suffering to deal with as a result of the crime. Even when it's over it's not really over, you know? I think that's why you're seeing such a visceral "nope, don't really care if someone…

Me too. My mother was molested, and I grew up watching her try to deal with the aftereffects. If I find out that someone is hurting a child that I have any sort of relationship with, I will hurt them.

This exactly. I have a cat rather than a dog, but if I did have a dog there's no way in hell I'd be handing it over to anyone without doing some extensive research on that person via every review site I could find. I do that with vets even if I'm going to be there for the whole exam, so the idea of not doing it for…

I think of hair that's brushed forward, or brushed into odd positions in general, as being intended to hide incipient baldness, so seeing the brushed-forwards look on a kid was rather disconcerting to me.

Clearly you've never known any models - this being the first celebrity she's ever been in proximity to for a decent period of time is very unlikely.

These look much too food-like, I think having one in my living room would make me hungry.

Mine is just below my shoulders when dry, and down to my waist when wet. In fact, I've learned from experience that if you have curly hair and after washing it a hairdresser says "wow, it's so long when it's wet!" that's a sure sign that you do not want that person cutting your hair, because they are not used to…

And there's another old favorite - one of the most basic principles of feminism is that I am not your mommy, random dude.

I've done a modified version of it (white girl, fine curly hair) and liked the results. Basically I just take sections of hair and twist them round my finger while it's wet, and then let it air dry. My hairdresser showed me how - it's good for when you want more defined curls, produces a ringlet-y effect on me, like a…

For me all it requires is getting out of bed.

That's already been addressed by many other commenters, but in brief - if that was what was going on why wouldn't she pick a bigger celebrity, and create a more outrageous story? This guy is small fry, and her story isn't one you'd come up with if you were going for shock value.