I believe the police showed up in the swat gear prior to the looting. People will argue that the looting did happen (by a minority of attendees), so the cops were right to do so. More rational people would say that it's one thing to be prepared for what might go wrong, quite another to get geared up for a fight and…

You should send every rape/violent gif to denton's email. Or have Joel fwd it to him. I don't think he realizes how awful his platform is in practice. everything is in theory for him and it's fucking stupid.

At pretty much every blogging job I've ever had, I've been told (by male managers) that it'd be a death sentence to moderate comments and block IP addresses, because it "shuts down discourse" and guts traffic. But no one's ever shown me any actual numbers that support that claim. Does anyone have any? Not that I think…

I'll be frank: I've been doing a lot of the behind the scenes complaining about this from my end because that's the only thing I can do. As some of you might know, I started out as a mod and worked my way up. I've seen a lot of shit, even with the old system in place (and not just from one site - I modded all the…

This editorial is passive aggressive? It strikes me as pretty direct.

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…

Men have no idea what tampons and pads cost and how deeply essential they are. There's a huge stigma about menstruation that makes a dude buying tampons for his usually overly emotional girlfriend into a tired TV comedy show trope. Women in poor countries either have nothing to bleed into it (and lose jobs and school…

I couldn't even make it through the video. Had I been on that subway car I would have thrown myself at the mercy of the tunnels.

IIRC, the agency has already folded.

Agreed.

They did, according to Isha's story from this weekend.

"My husband is a nice, gentle man who is supportive and kind to my face but has a sinister, sick side that is even more malevolent given the fact that he is so sly and secretive about it. In our 9-year relationship, we've fought three times total which shows the almost psychopathic levels he goes to to suppress his…

You just glass housed the shit out of Jezebel.

The newest Jezebel EIC is another white woman.

Wow, only 3 replies before someone equated having someone forcibly stick their dick into your body to having a few frivolous byproducts of crass consumerism stolen.

"No one deserves this. I don't care if you're wealthy. I don't care if you're poor. Your personal belongings are your personal belongings," she said.

No! Breakfast is an entirely different thing! This is your wake-up pizza!

I read Albert Burneko's food stuff over on Deadspin and it's the cat's ass. Smart and hilarious, accessible to novice cooks without being patronizing.

I volunteer you for the gelatin section while I promise to try every version of "Better than Sex" cake in the world. But seriously (we'll pretend I wasn't serious before), Cooking Light had this "lightening up old recipes" kind of column that I loved. I would hate to see one lightened up in a way that involved…