When I went to college in NYC, economics forced me to live amongst my native people, the Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. I am the child of Dominican immingrants. The first thing I noticed was the number of overweight people. I knew these people were poor—how can they afford to be fat, I naively wondered.…

And not just the poorest. Those ten line up with the US states that where fundamentalist christianity has the highest percentages. The lowest rates of obesity line up with the least fundy states, even where other religions are a majority.

Those states also have predominantly rural poverty, and since traveling to get food (often the nearest walmart) can be an ordeal which might require sharing a ride or borrowing a car people tend to buy non-perishables and stay away from fresh food with an expiration date.

I think my favorite thing about this is that apparently only six people had a problem with it. Considering how many people watch the show, my mind sort of boggles at that low number, in a very good way. A good sort of boggling.

Anybody who thinks it's hypocritical for us to hate rape and like sex isn't very good at thinking.

Being non-consensually assailed with violent, graphic imagery of rape porn is not even close to the same thing as voluntarily looking at porn that appeals to you.

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to…

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…

This is why all gifs should not be banned.

In NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY is it acceptable to let your workers be subjected to repeated, targeted pornography and violence. I have NEVER worked a job staffed by the kind of people who would stand idly by — it would be one fat lawsuit after another up everyone's asshole and an HR nightmare, to boot.

I think banning gifs is the wrong precedent to set and allows Gawker to ignore the problem instead of doing what it takes to stop it.

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…

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.

The law doesn't suit me though. Private land being rented at profit solely to bombard me with propagandist messages as I try to go about my day doesn't "suit me." I've traveled to Vermont repeatedly over the past few years, and one of the biggest aesthetic differences which is immediately apparent is that billboards…

Yeah, how dare someone with an opinion try to shove it down my throat without first paying a monthly rental fee to a third-party for the right to do so.

Only if you promise to make a YouTube video.

I kinda want to start hanging outside Atlanta Braves games in a suit and whiteface and be bad at dancing and hand out packs of saltines.