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.…

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.

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!

This is, frankly, shitty advice. In my experience, men who are bad kissers don’t suddenly think “wow, she kisses differently, I’m going to adapt my style to hers!” Has anyone actually had this work? I tried this “solution” in my teens and early 20s and found out that men persist in bizarre and horrifying kiss…

I think Garnet’s reply to an unwanted suitor on Steven Universe probably said it best:

I’m getting married while 25 weeks pregnant and anyone who says I shouldn’t have a flute of champagne for the toast is a prick. That is all.