Personally, I think it's open season on mocking the Catholic Church, given that it has decided to use its considerable power to try to force its beliefs and behaviors on those who are not members of the church. People are actually dying and suffering right now because the men who run the church want to prevent women…

So are you a Scientologist who doesn't believe mental illness is a thing, an asshole who lacks empathy, or merely a common garden troll?

Spitzer was taken out by Wall Street. That wasn't his fault, per se. Only Democrats do this — and only if the sexual scandal participant in question is liberal or progressive...

Weiner was just a self-interested loud mouth, as far as I can tell. Didn't he actually have one of the worst track records in Congress in…

But there won't be a liberal running from either major party. Actual liberals and progressives need to recognize that we're not getting a president with those values any time in the near future. It's too expensive to run, and the system is too controlled by FIRE and major corporations now.

Vote for the most…

Yes, but the women left will be more compliant and less slutty. Win/win!

There is really nothing more delightful that being accused of being irrational and over emotional by a person who demonstrably is irrational and over emotional. A) You're wrong about the original article. He does have a position on rape, which he stated, and it isn't logically consistent, as numerous other comments…

I have nothing to add to the excellent discussion about how illogical, absurd and detestable his position is.

Could we all scrub the term "date rape" from our lexicon? It's a terribly misleading, implicitly misogynist term that enables people to make these kinds of excuses and misleading arguments. Dawkins seems to…

So why not tell Ray Rice to do the same?

So...if I called you an asshole, you would be well within your rights to pummel me until I was unconscious and then drag me around like a sack of grain?

I agree that people should behave in a civil manner to one another, but this new idea that one can use potentially lethal force if "provoked" would amaze me if it…

Not reading the transcript. I'm sure I can find some rancid meat from China to eat if I want to feel ill.

Very much enjoyed the screenshot.

This seems like a good place to say thank you to Deadspin for covering this and other sexual discrimination and abuse issues as well as you do. I'ma feminist who loves NFL football, and am fully aware of how problematic that can be. But I don't think it's too much to ask an organization that makes money every year…

Why thank you, Rose.

How is it objectifying? Because of the one line about having artisal, curated sex with her husband? The vast bulk of the article focuses on the actual web site in all its distasteful incompetence. The only reason anyone is paying attention to it is because she's perceived as sexually desirable and has a handsome…

Not to jump on Erin's superb retort, but I hate this attitude. Blake Lively has put her name to something incompetent. She is trading on her celebrity value which is almost entirely the result of her being thin and pretty, the apotheosis of white female privilege in our current system. The site is pretentious,…

Pretty sure that's nonsensical PR. I did alumni interviewing for Harvard for about a decade, and NONE of the interesting kids even got waitlisted — even though they also had high grades and scores and a lot of more traditional achievements to recommend them.

Who got in was a double legacy with two very powerful and…

She gets to feel how she wants, do what she wants, and dress how she wants. HOWEVER, because she promotes her body, and profits from promoting her body, I get to point out that she is, in fact, body shaming, and putting millions of less privileged women under cruel, unproductive pressure to become "skinny," which is…

Why do you believe this doesn't have an impact on racism? Racism is a made-up belief system designed to play off one group of the economically disfranchised against another (and make it acceptable to BRUTALLY exploit the group defined as lesser) for the economic benefit of those in power. It seems to me making it…

My takeaway from this is not "You can't have it all," (although obvs) but women continue to be destructive gatekeepers of the patriarchy. Her mom was horrible to her. I can't tell exactly what she thought the point of the family anecdote was, but what it said to me was that her mother was undermining her at home,…

You are thinking too small, my friend.

Bill James for President.

Just to be clear, I did not read George Will's piece, and am not commenting on your position that the piece itself has merit. I am addressing your broader point, that a elderly, wealthy, colossally well-connected and privileged white male who has been writing whatever he wants for the most prestigious publications in…