You must looooove appropriating AAVE, huh?

Now that the free version is gone, I give it a year — maybe two, tops — before the “commercial-free” aspect of the paid service is gone as well. They’ll call it “limited advertising breaks,” and they’ll try to make you think it’s actually a good thing because so much TV is based on the idea of having a commercial…

Has it actually happened in any meaningful sense, though? If you can show me that the amount of money donated to anti-incarceration charities is spiking, or that there are way more volunteers than there used to be working to improve this situation, I’d say you might be right. As it is, in the real world, people watch…

So I’m sure anti-incarceration programs, etc. have seen a huge spike in funding since the show started! Can you provide evidence of this happening?

Imagine if people were as interested in the racial issues and overcrowding problems at actual prisons as they are in what happens to fictional characters in a fictional prison. Imagine if as many hours were spent protesting prison conditions and demanding change as the hours now spent writing fanfiction for OItNB.…

So Violet Blue spends years telling everyone how great the fetish and kink community is, and then it comes out she’s been shielding a rapist for over a decade. I wonder how many other rapists and boundary violators the “sex positive” movement has sheltered to avoid awkward questions about whether encouraging…

Yeah, because there are no rapists in the halls of power who’d happily give a man a leg up for his “20 minutes of action.” CEOs and other powerful types are known for their love of affirmative consent and their absolute commitment to finding and hiring people of the most outstanding moral character.

This is somehow one of the creepiest comments I’ve ever seen on Gawker sites. Should someone check your computer? Do you have any actual evidence to back this up, or is this more mindless sex-positivity “anything that gets you off couldn’t possibly lead to real life consequences” posturing?

One year, I was tapped on the shoulder at a mall while shopping with my parents to do a focus group for HOLIDAY BARBIE. They asked which dress I liked best of several options, and a bunch of other questions, and asked about other Barbies and outfits and playsets coming up in their lineup.

You’re a terrible pedant, because there’s no such thing as a North American antelope. The species you’re thinking of is called the pronghorn, and it is not related closely to the antelope. http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/Prong…

Yeah, awesome. Disabled people will surely love this. And as a woman, I just love playing the city game of “public transit sexual harassment roulette.” If cars are banned, it’ll be so lovely to once again face 1 in 100 odds of being groped on any given day, 1 in 1000 odds of actually being followed home, 1 in 25 of…

Yeah, this is pretty troubling on a supposedly feminist website. Maybe now that Gawker is transferring all celeb and gossip stuff over here, it’ll stop being even ostensibly feminist. Hey, remember when Hugo Schwyzer got a platform here?

Really gross. This is not okay to say about minors.

I am seven months pregnant and the product onslaught is totally overwhelming. Most of it is completely unenecssary, except those few things that are change-your-life awesome, and you’re expected to figure it out while growing an actual person inside your actual body.

Choking a domestic partner is one of the single biggest signs that a man is capable of murder. Domestic violence organizations look at choking as a signal that a man could be upping his level of violence to the point of actually killing a woman.

Yes.

Typical of men to think that behind closed doors when women are alone, it’s still All About Them.

I’m sure this man with incredibly bad boundary issues and a total unwillingness to accept the basic humanity of people other than himself will be a spectacular parent to a child, especially if it’s a girl child. I’m sure that kid won’t grow up scarred for life at all by a dad who thinks it’s okay to sexually assault…

YES. I have been preaching this gospel for a long time. My husband used to think I was crazy, but now he does the same thing.

I’m hoping when she comes up, it’s in another 6 months and all of the rest of the “Divas Revolution” has moved on and regard themselves as grown-ups compared to her little-girlness. That gives her a way to have a chip on her shoulder against them, Bayley against the world!