Hey, fellow white ladies of Jezebel: Let's remember that a black kid is still dead, and his killer is still free. It's not about our feelings tonight, or about what black people say about us. It's about the fact that black lives do not, according to the state of Florida, and in American society at large, matter.
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You guys I just.... I'm in tears. Like I just... and the fact that racist assholes will use this verdict as further justification for their demonization of black men.... I can't. You guys I feel broken. I can't believe this happened.
What a shock. A bunch of white women in Florida think it's okay to shoot a black teen male to death. I mean, we are talking about the place that didn't want to bring him to trial to begin with.
I empathically agree with your sentiments but I just wanted to clarify one very important fact. George Zimmerman is *not* a police officer, nor has he ever been one. Because he was some sort of volunteer self-appointed Neighbourhood Watch official with (what proved to be) overly-zealous tendencies and a penchant for…
Manslaughter or 2nd degree. Anything. Just as long as he isn't allowed to be a free man after gunning down a damn kid.
Yes, but it didn't say, "this princess," it said, "this GAME." The answer was the GAME, not the PRINCESS.
As a trans woman, the internet has been an indispensable source of information for me. I first figured out my identity about a decade ago (sheesh, has it really been that long already?) in my early teens because of the internet. At the time I had no idea what a transsexual was when I heard the word occasionally tossed…
Cali's got problems, but damn, it's days like this when I'm really proud to live here. And think of the small kids who enter the school system in years to come — they won't think this is odd in any way. Trans* kids being treated well will be the norm, and all the kids around them will think nothing of their Trans*…
Between their lack of understanding about science and the way they don't seem to have even a rough grasp on how teenagers think, I'm beginning to think that most conservative legislators just didn't go to high school. Or middle school. Or any school, maybe, since most of them also appear to have missed the lessons…
Gawker posted a story about this yesterday. Do not go read the comments over there. Every time someone claimed they had a "basic understanding of science" therefore born-with-penis = boy, I wanted to reach through my screen and strangle someone.
Following orders is not an excuse. Nuremberg trials are the permanent reminder of that.
60 for a woman is like 40 for a man. When it comes to aging - like, legitimate aging - the female body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.
"But Freedom of Speech! First Amendment! My Rights! Rabble Rabble Rabble! Censorship! PC Bullshit! Gay Mafia! Blah Blah Blah!"
(you don't have freedom of speech here. it's a private site run by a private company. your right to be a shithead doesn't exist on Kotaku. they can show you to the door and ask you not to come…
ditch the burner accounts. bring back the star system you had before someone decided to f it all up.
I was recently asked to be more clear with readers about who Kotaku is and isn't for.
I just want to say, as a person who has had to deal with the suicide of a loved one, that I appreciate high-profile blogs such as this and other media highlighting the disgust and general outrage at such blatantly shameless corporate profiteering. I feel vindicated and genuinely comforted by the fact that I find my…
Dude, if "entertainment" were completely separate from "important feminist issues," then we'd all have fantastic body image, women wouldn't be sexualized objects for the male gaze, and little girls wouldn't learn to hate their bodies and their physical features by age 10.
I would LOVE!!! to have a woman as the next Doctor.