She’s totally right about leaving if you can. There comes a point where you just have to leave a job if you’re not feeling valued. Those feelings aren’t imagined or coming from nowhere. You’re feeling them for a reason. Sometimes fighting the good fight or trying to doesn’t fix shit. Leave before you become convinced…

There’s a Mortarboard/Motorboat joke in there somewhere, I’m sure of it.

i’m mostly confused as to why people in the audience are so shocked about this

I wish someone would explain to me the ins and outs of gray. I just figured it was a case by case basis based on wit and popularity. I’ve had some comments that were acknowledged and others that were gray in perpetuity. Thought it was up to whether or not the OP felt like you were worthy, but other commenters make…

I keep wondering who I have to peg to get out of the grays.

In the old days, I had a Star on Gawker, but not on Jezebel. Now it’s reversed.

I hear you. I used to have another account, and I wasn’t in the grays, but ever since something happened with re-kinjaing, I had to make this one, and I’m hardly EVER out of the grays anymore. I’m socially acceptable and not an asshole, and occasionally I have something pithy to say, so I’m a bit verklempt about it.…

I submitted dad in elephant bell bottoms and got nowhere :(

Even if you’re un-grayed on gawker, you will still be gray on other sites. Life hacker will ungray anyone, those sluts! I want to know who you gotta peg to get ungrayed over at Deadspin.

Wow, no one has ever suggested that! I tend to be a bit of a spectacle already. I’m afraid people would say “Hey! There goes Bozo the Old-Ass Clown! Whoa!“

Same (Gawker, Jez, i09). But I’m a socially-anxious underachiever, so all good.

I hear ya. I’m always in the greys too. I assumed it was just because I commented on stuff way too late.

Sorry. I realized after I posted this, I am also followed by a Jez writer and Pictorial. The fact that I’m followed by a writer is why I’m black on Jez but because I’m not followed by Jez, I’m grey on each individual sub blog.

So I double checked and found I was followed by Millihelen. So if I follow them back will that make me black on Jez?

The link to the comment (and two pics to illustrate) is http://jezebel.com/her-facial-str…

it is my cat! she some kind of siamese mix that I found on the street when i was in college. I like your cat, too. Yay cats!

I’m not a jerk, I contribute quality commentary. I figured out that Chelsea Clinton looks just like Bill’s mom the other day when Jez posted that baloney story about the poor girl being the result of a Hillary/Hubble affair. I’m good people. I’m still grey. I have decided that it’s like a game of duck-duck-goose and…

I think that if you are followed by Jez or Gawker, your posts are accepted on all the Gawker sites.

Though this eye makeup is ON POINT