I knew a lady who used to get ladybug infestations every spring - one time I counted more than 3o on a single 3x5 pane of her window. ANY insect in sufficient quantity is gross and creepy - the only difference is in the numbers.

“Perhaps not. But that résumé also couldn’t be achieved without any privilege to begin with.”

As suspected. Part of the “fuck off” I’m right you’re wrong crowd. Take your hot takes on privilege and shove it. Privilege this privilege that.. White male... Wahhhhh wahhhhhhh

He spent 10 months investigating a topic to help those who have been sexually abused by a powerful man. He used his privilege, status and smarts to help people. What the fuck is wrong with that? I commend him. Use your attack for someone else. He doesn’t deserve it. Itching to bash the privileged? Bash Trump’s kids.

He’s privileged yes, but he uses that for good. There is nothing wrong with that. Stop shaming people for no good reason. He’s earned all his credentials by merit. It’s pretty clear just looking at his resume.

He’s not the one making that call, though - he’s still the employee. If he demurred, I guarantee those law/political/journalism jobs would go to another privileged white man, probably a middle-aged cynic interested in writing a gossip column or leapfrogging to a lobbyist job.

I’m a black, disabled, queer woman from the south and I don’t resent a fucking to-the-manor-born journalist one bit. He hasn’t taken a thing from me and, with this gig, has given so very much back to me. Hush.

Anyone can be a journalist in this day and age. It doesn’t require you to have rich white privileged parents. Yes, he’s using the assets he was given to help highlight things and make people pay attention, but isn’t that the appropriate route to take?

Is there any job he could do that you wouldn’t attack him for?

This is just painful to read. You may be super duper fun at parties!

Okay please. Yes he is privileged but that resume above cannot be achieved by privilege alone. Come ON.

He’s 29 now, but yes, he is Doogie Howser. He graduated from Bard College at the age of 15 then started at Yale law school at 16. He’s member of the New York Bar. He had already done a stint at the State Department before he started a career in journalism. His resume is pretty insane.

Why do you believe him? In particular, why do you believe him and not Ames? And what do you think of a guy who co-authors a book with a guy who (in your view) truthfully brags about raping a 15-year-old? I’m honestly asking. I don’t know his work, but what about him makes you think that he’s making up all the terrible…

Wow, that’s fucking disgusting. I hope someone opens an investigation into the alleged satire. It doesn’t seem like a giant stretch for someone who frequently makes rape jokes or basically espouses raping Russian women to be ignorant or ignoring of consent.

So true. I’m just a smidge over 5 feet and JFC the world is not built for us! Every once in a while I’ll be somewhere that has easy chairs that are more petite than usual and it makes me absolutely giddy with joy! I’m sitting all the way back in the chair and my feet touch the ground! Imagine that! This is how the…

The first one? I’ve occasionally kicked off my shoes in the office when they were killing my feet and it didn’t impact anyone but me. I stayed in my office, took one trip down the hall to the supply closet, but that’s about it. No big deal.

A friend who is a flight attendant was speaking about this the other day - she reiterated that the cabin floors are FILTHY and pretty much never cleaned, including the bathrooms. So why anyone would walk around without footwear is a mystery.

I was Drake from the Hotline Bling video one Halloween. No makeup (hopefully that’s obvious.) No beard.

Unless you’re a lifeguard, I can think of no work place where it’s appropriate to walk around barefoot.

Also, I think it’s totally okay to dress up as people of other races for Halloween if it’s genuine, specific, and doesn’t involve any kind of ethnic caricaturization.