But it's not just about having the money to GO-you also have to be able to afford to take off work and stuff and still be able to pay your bills back home. Most jobs aren't just gonna let you take off weeks at a time, and even if they do, you still have to have enough saved not just for the trip but to pay your rent…

I've been majorly disappointed by the lack of protest coverage by Jez. I don't expect an update on every individual protest, but not something like a recap of the protests in any given week? Protestors filled the Mall of America for fucks sake. The protests have been HUGE. For all the times Jez has had an article…

It got ugly a long time ago.

So wait, Jezebel won't cover ANY of the violence against protesters over the past few weeks. Not the sound cannons, the beatings, the batons, the needless arrests, the pepper spray, the tear gas, none of it. But now you're going to cover the killings and expect your coverage to be taken seriously? The mounting…

Wow. I just feel sorry for you, honestly. I hope one day you start caring about the world you live in more than you care about being snarky on the internet. Peace.

Thank you! I don't understand why Jezebel isn't covering it! I was there, laying on the ground. I saw a man maced by police in what was a very peaceful protest.

Also, hundreds of protesters were outside the Barclays center all night being penned in and harassed by the police. Arrests were made and at least two peaceful protestors are currently being held in the 78th precinct. But please, continue not covering the protests, let's all just squeal about Beyonce.

So are you guys ever going to cover the NYC protests again or...? Last night LRAD sound cannons and pepper spray were used again on peaceful protesters and even more arrests were made. We need help, we need jail support, we need the media to accurately cover what's going on out here.

If police misconduct happens in your community, go in large groups to the municipal government meetings and demand the elected officials responsible for your police department reform how they hire and train those people allowed to become cops. Massive civil lawsuits filed by victims are good too. The voters have the…

"Cops are now purposely hiding their badge numbers so we cannot identify and report them."

BUMP, BUMP, BUMP IT UP

Thanks for giving us an update on your experience. Ugh - put some ice on that ankle!

Why are we acting like this is only about her touching her 1 year old sister's vagina when she was 7 and not also about emotionally coercing her sister into sleeping in her bed and then masturbating while she sleeps? And about paying her sister in candy to give her long kisses on the lips? And about paying her sister…

Bill Maher is problematic for a host of reasons, but I'm not going to say I think he's wrong about Islam. He's equally hard on Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, and Evangelical Christianity in Religulous. Every one of them is a sexist institution that oppresses women and minorities. At best, they're ignorant, and at…

I was welcomed to New York when my momma had me in a Brooklyn hospital, TYVM.

So true. I'm a native New Yorker (outer boroughs) and have a close cluster of truly local friends and family. I work with a bunch of transplants from the mid west and smaller states up and down the east coast. Nice enough people, but they give my Liz Lemon eye roll quite a workout on the reg.

And I'm tired of rich people (minority) running this country too.

Yeaaah. What people don't realize is this is actually super common. I worked at a Broadway show that had several "super fans". The familiar faces didn't so much give the cast a boost as make them wonder if they were going to be skinned and worn like last year's Versace at some point. They used to buy really creepy…

You seem to care A LOT about internet comments sections. There's not really anything that could ever happen in one that would make me genuinely upset IRL, barring some kind of credible threat against my life. So...good news, hanging avoided! Please feel free to ignore all the comments that agree with me and also…

When is someone going to invent something that helps allergy sufferers not sneeze all over everyone when trapped in a small space with someone wearing too much perfume? I swear, the people who buy perfume have NO sense of what's an appropriate amount to wear when you're planning on being in close proximity to others.…