I’m really grateful for journalists taking care to report suicide compassionately and responsibly, so thank you. For anyone who is interested, the Samaritans guidelines are pretty good, IMO: http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/m…

EDIT: Oh, and for the people complaining that this is clearly ‘POLITICAL CORRECTNESS…

I have a theory on why porn always ends that way: everything in porn is about being able to SEE what one would feel or imagine when actually engaging in sex. That’s why they angle their bodies weirdly to SHOW the action. So when climax is concerned, we gotta see that shit. And the audience (male) would probably rather…

to his credit, George Jason Alexander posted this on twitter

Next time I hear “because of porn” I’m going to politely ask the guy to wax his balls and get fit because MEN IN PORN look just like that. They get to ask for something they saw in porn, well so can I. Wax that scrotum boo!

I guess I’ve always taken the act as somehow embodying the physicality of orgasm in a very tokenistic way. From my understanding, it originally entered the popular imagination because pornography required a way to actually prove that their performers were orgasming, and slowly separated into two real main ways to…

Nope. Anywhere but the face. That’s just .... very degrading sounding, looking and feeling. No.

In this episode of Gawker Grammar Police, TheAngryMob feigns indignation over semantics instead of realizing the semiotic relevance of a tragic event and gets to eat humble pie for their ignorance.

This. A friend of mine lost her life recently and her family chose to frame it as: “she lost her battle with depression.” Because those who die by their own hand are not making a conscious, rational decision, which “committed” and “took” imply.

Thank you, good reporting of suicide saves lives.

I did not know this; thank you for the information!

I mean, so the point that confidence is good is a good point. HOWEVER, this comment comes pretty close to blaming that girl for her own lack of relationships, which is pretty unfair.

This. Suicide is a complex issue, and coverage of it has been - traditionally - as insensitive as the original remark. Kudos, Anna. More from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

This is a really genuine “celebs, they’re just like us!” thing for my family. Parents can be normal, stable, and generally considered to be good, chill peeps... and still produce a Chet Haze, or in our case, my cousin, a black hole of swirling narcissism from which no light can escape. Quote from my aunt: “Poor Tom…

You're a genius. Some engineer needs to start working on a way to make this happen immediately. We can call it the cunt pump.

if you visualize it it’ll happen.

Even my crotchety, Repub-as-hell Godfather, who owns a gun shop, has told me repeatedly to NEVER SHOW YOUR GUN to someone who is intruding your house, unless your life is in imminent danger (aka they are actually attacking you). Here’s the reason for this: most criminals aren’t actually THAT dumb and they know that…

Whenever you guys make sports jokes I don’t get I become irrationally angry.

Vince, Vince, Vince.

“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”