Not really. It’s basically anyone we want to make fun of. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

Wait. What? You admit that the term is derogatory but don’t think it is a slur? I know for a fact that women in the tech industry are impacted by discriminatory behavior on a regular basis. To allow a derogatory comment that diminishes any woman who speaks up is absolutely discriminatory. Uber in particular has had…

It is being overwhelmingly applied to white women. If these seminars are about having “an open and honest conversation about race,” then part of that conversation needs to be the seemingly obvious (but somehow often missed) point not to use derogatory terms. Even when people may deserve it. They probably get told not…

I wasn’t sitting in on the conversations, so I have no way of knowing if the conversation was held well or not, but the topic itself is worth discussing.

What was been said may not have been appropriate for that forum and the feedback may have been handled poorly, but there is absolutely no doubt that “Karen” is used in derogatory fashion.

In case anyone from Disney is reading... I’ve been with Hulu since it was in beta and you had to be invited to join. Just the other day, when we were discussing our streaming packages — which ones we would put on hiatus for a while and which ones we’d add, so that our streaming budget stays pretty fixed — I…

This is why I work from home. Good luck throwing something far enough to hit me, suckers!

For wasting the literal 10 seconds it took to ask a question? And what “planned topic of discussion”? They didn’t say it was a meeting about something else and they brought it up. It could have been brought up as they passed in the hallway, or as they were trailing out of another meeting. And if the agenda item was…

Considering the employee was the one to escalate to HR, I assume it was the “letting them know it wasn’t the right venue” situation. Probably with a bit less tact.

They should be reprimanded for wasting time.

The KC show is not a show that would address anti-Asian hate crimes, unfortunately. They just wouldn’t touch on something like that, based on what i know of the show from the YouTube clips.

This one hurts.

you know why? because a former AVClub writer wrote on twitter virtually the same post yesterday.

Man. I wish we really could once and for all divorce beauty standards from “who I’d like to fuck” standards. Everyone confused saying this person or that person is beautiful with a statement about who you should find fuckable. And THAT is the problem.  

I’ll be in my bunk

Obviously gonna lie about that part. C’mon. I’m not made of stone. 

But what if she told you that you weren’t allowed to think about her 

Just gonna say: If Melanie Lynskey made me meet her in a motel room, yelled at me, and told me to go in the bathroom and jerk off into a condom, I wouldn’t need the toothpaste.

“So once again, re = again, and boot = boot. And that completes our intensive six-week course.”

It’s so weird. I’d be really curious to get a look at the AV Club’s current stylebook—or the stylebook of any outlet that thinks “reboot” is the correct term here. Because they’re not the only one.