They grayed Kyosuke today...

Of course it does. I've been commenting here for four years and had my star yanked for calling out BS on exactly one occasion. Okay, maybe two, but still. YAY GRAY!

Me too. I was banished to the grays after pointing out Erin's misuse of a word.

First of all, not blaming this specific tripe on Ryan. I think this particular piece is all Jessica Coen and maybe some John Cook.

But her indiscriminate banning of any dissenters, and also personal attacks against them (which she does rather than addressing the heart of the dissent) glorification of her own…

You said exactly what I was thinking. They made it sound like a big revelation and then changed the tone when they realized how underwhelming it would be.

Well done. Truly a great victory for feminism.

The $10,000 reward suggests they thought the images would be shockingly, outrageously edited, and worth an ~expose~ about how women like Lena aren't allowed to appear in their natural glory. The actual minor retouches, and grasping at "but this is still a lesson, kids!" are kinda womp-womp.

Pretty much all of your heavily contributing, years old veteran commenters pretty much agree: this was a bad idea.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

This is gross. You can spin it any which way you like, but it's fucking gross. Dunham is not, by a long shot, the only well-known person who has spoken out about body image. This is not the same as Redbookgate; you're specifically targeting a person with whom Gawker media and its community have some weird love-hate…

I had a VERY real discussion with 2 male co-workers last summer about sexual assault and rape and after 20 minutes they actually started squirming in their seats and whining about how uncomfortable they were listening to the mere mention of violence perpetrated on women's bodies.

I love that the internet provides each man with the opportunity to perform his own Black Like Me experiment. John Howard Griffiths lived in a time of such racial divide that he had to literally adopt a black identity and write a book about it. I think today's gender culture is hostile enough to warrant similarly…

Don't bring facts into this.

I mean, Taylor is a grown ass woman too, misguided TSwift fans on twitter. She's older than I am, and I'm pretty sure I'm a grown ass woman.

"There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women."

I would say in a lot of cases, yeah, but in this particular case, Taylor Swift comes off just as humorless and defensive as her fans are.

I'd much rather get drunk with Tina and Amy than Taylor...

You think celebrities are ever embarrassed of their fans?

lol I hate Taylor Swift. As a public persona. Maybe she's cool IRL who fucking knows. But. Kanye was right, you know? And Fey and Poehler are comedy goddesses. So whatever. pfft.

Good for them. It's asking too much, unrealistically, for people who want a Greek system to do away with it entirely due to its flaws, so I'm glad they're working within the system to change it, at least at Dartmouth. Hopefully other schools with Greek communities follow suit.