Umm. I wasn't speaking only of Chicago.

You are so correct in everything you say. But I cannot shake my sense that without them Steubenville would have gone nowhere with OH authorities (i.e. the publicity and info led to them actually pursuing hard and getting an outside judge), and that case feels seminal to me as we collectively as a society attempt to…

Thank you for posting this. I am bawling my eyes out. Beautiful, important and a call to action.

But what are they honestly doing but uncovering information? They are NOT having any appreciable effect on "who to punish, how to punish them, and for what crimes to punish them for?" The actions of punishment are done by other people. In the case of Adria, her company fired her. In the case of Steubenville, the judge…

OMG, I don't wear tank tops because I am not 17, but that is hilarious and I love it.

I am not saying they are perfect. Clearly not, as your example shows. They can be completely wrong and shitty. But sometimes they do get it right, and when they do it's an important right. They are likely huge hypocrites- I think most people are. I like to look at what they do right in a vacuum because in those…

Here you go, my friend!

Yes, but a lot of time the police give up because of the "she was drunk" legal shitstorm that signals rape culture —- it's such a pervasive argument that well-meaning people in authority back off. There is this great YouTube clip of a guy talking about a passed out girl on his couch and what he will do to her... and…

I fucking love these guys. I know they can sometimes obstruct justice by unearthing evidence that's not admissible, but then again "justice" is completely fucked in this country. I love when hackers put their hive mind to righting rape culture wrongs.... it's a great start. Thanks, Anonymous!

All we need to do is make sure that every Republican legislators child is bused into a failing school, because as we have seen recently with the gay marriage debate the GOP lacks empathy for anything that does not touch them directly. Once anything happens to someone near and dear: change of heart!

First, human beings are not mice. We have much more complex brains, so I am not sure how we are correlating "laziness" between lower and higher order thinkers. I am just like you, Lindy. I basically say that I have two speeds: FULL SPEED ON or OFF. When I am on, like at work (most of the time), I am a FORCE. Which…

"As with every devastating crime, asking "why" is hardly ever productive or satisfying, and blaming books, television, or music feels reductive and insulting to the reality of what occurred. The fact remains that we live in a world in which women's bodies are objectified, dehumanized, and exploited on a daily basis,…

Rebel sometimes rocks the hipster bangs which look good on precisely no one that I have ever seen (Lizzy Caplan is hot hot hot but she looked BAD in the second season of Party Down with that weird microscopic fringe). Adele is fucking STUNNING. She dresses well for her body, her hair and makeup are perfect and she is…

Am I the only one who actually really enjoyed the Arthur remake with Russell Brand? I have to admit to not ever seeing the original, but the recent version displayed Russell's really impeccable comedic timing and I laughed out loud more than once (generally a sign I will give something a repeat viewing on cable, if…

Right there with you. And it's SO glaring when you look at the abortion rights movement against gay marriage. For all the wonderful Gladwellian tipping points we have seen in the latter pushing towards progress, we've seen in the former the exact opposite trajectory lately, "Christian" white (mostly) men setting women…

Another question.... why when you click on your notifications does Kinja not pop up in a new window? It is very disconcerting to read your replies and have no elegant way back to the site but to go to your browser window again.

So how long does it take to get your comment "approved" or out of the pending queue? I notice on Deadspin that comments sit there for-evah for reasons that are inexplicable to me. Hope that does not happen here.

Ha! Totally. This is a major embarrassment for Gawker Media (Gawker had the same error: different authors, Max and Dodai, same error). I get the rush to be among the first to deliver the news, but GET THE MAN'S NAME RIGHT! I mean, it's literally in the tweet right next to your headline, it's not that tough!

+1

Gawker did the same thing. It's fixed over there. WTF is going on at Gawker Media? It's pretty disgraceful to get the name wrong of a prominent film critic as you are eulogizing him.