One problem with interpreting events like that in Turkey is that the media is explicitly divided along ethnic and partisan lines. It’s hard as an outsider to know where outlets are prone to sit on a story.

expressing that you wanted to kill women for not fucking you doesn’t make you mentally ill so much as a sick person—there is a difference. i don’t think you are likely mentally ill, i think you are likely dangerous. they are not at all the same thing, but both often require help. the difference being mentally ill…

Let me tell you how I look at him. He’s a public figure. I can’t judge if he’s a nice guy privately, and frankly I don’t care. Maybe he’s been a jerk to someone who works for him. If so, she should quit. If he’s been unprofessional or even harassing, maybe she should take him to court. I don’t really care about this.…

“I had feelings that make it easier for me to relate to those young 24 year olds who are still virgins and wanna kill every girl...”

Dan Savage, unlike a lot of people in similar positions, actually apologized and evolved on things he’s said about bi and trans issues. He’s super bi supportive now. Dan Savage’s response to accusations of being fat phobic is here http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/…. I think they both Lindy West and Dan Savage…

I don’t know about hatred, but he has several times given advice about keeping yourself in decent shape if that is what your partner finds desirable. Which sounds bad in a sound bite, but in context made sense. I mean, circumstances and individuals and all that made it make sense.

People say this but I just don’t get that from him at all. I love his show, I love his column. Where has he said things that lead people to claim he hates fat and bi people? I am genuinely asking, where has he expressed hatred towards fat or bi people?

This is kind of like when that lady who wrote “The Rules” got a divorce.

To me it’s the first part of what you said that is really most important. Stop trying to jam the same ad system down peoples throat and get innovative with how you operate. If you still want to do ads, then pay the content creators to endorse what you sell in their content. It would probably be more meaningful that…

How is a profit of $200-million on a cost of $3.8-billion a failure? That’s a profit margin of 5.2%. That’s actually a pretty good profit margin for any large-scale business. Take general-merchandise retail, as an example, where the industry-wide average profit is 3.2%, and that’s considered to be on the HIGH end of…

Counterpoint: I only enjoy said content because it’s free. I’m not willing to pay for it, and I’d rather stop watching altogether if it were subscription only.

There’s an underlying entitlement to profit and success that I don’t like with this attitude. When the consumers change their behavior, it’s your paradigm that needs to change, not their behavior. So I get Youtube Red, but they also need to get that maybe people won’t like the change and may have backlash.

The key to this story that wasn't included in this article (I live in Milwaukee) was that even after everyone was vetted and checked out, the jewelry store still didn't want to let them in. Once they were basically told to, they requested the officer stay. Even after they knew who he was and why he was there. The…

Hm. What prior robbery?

If that’s why people think black men are scary, then they’ve turned their brains off and decided to let others - in this case Walker - do their thinking for them.

Your average profffesional athlete sounds less educated

I agree being denied a gaudy watch is not a crisis but it’s a good thing when this kind of shit gets called out. It makes people think about their own subconscious forms of racism. When people neglect to take an honest look at the way they stereotype others they pass over people of color for jobs or avoid renting to…

Except that the person who robbed the store previously was White.

The headline is telling US that it’s John Henson, not that he was identified by the employees by name. That’s why his name isn’t used in the quote. You can’t be this stupid, can you?

Drop the bullshit, man. It's not clever. It's not funny. It's a pedantic (and incorrect) semantic argument that's as tedious as it is stupid. You know damned well what the headline was conveying, because it's 100% accurate to what was described in the article. You're just arguing to hear your own voice.