"...he seems like an kind of an ass who thinks he's funny."

There's a lot of fascinating communities out here on the internet, but The Chive is one of the more fascinating ones. (This is a good Chive primer http://www.theawl.com/2013/07/inside…)

Hint #1 you are dealing with a super reputable journalist:

As a society, we should be acknowledging and championing the people who step out publicly and take the better, morally weightier stance. It takes guts. Especially if you are a young girl. I feel like people are assigning politics to her rather than listening. Criticizing her for being graceful because it plays to…

And the funny thing is it always happens right about one bus ride home's length after the dismissal bells at high schools across the country. Correlation? Or causation?

No fucking joke. I let one idiot drag me into a several post thing where I fucking schooled him on every post and he just kept responding with absolute nonsense thinking he was shutting me down. Sad shit. (I dismissed the convo a while ago, not gonna give his troll buddies a chance to star his shit)

I'm guessing she was in the country illegally and had no money. The original article said the victim had not eaten in several days.

Fun fact - Eeyore = Optimus Prime. Just try to unhear that now.

Or maybe Mo'ne is just a forgiving person and doesn't want the world hating someone for a single tweet. She's answering hate with forgiveness and love. She's an example to everyone.

Part of what makes his statement so sad is that it's pretty clear that he was using "slut" as a random synonym for "girl" or "woman." Her response gives me hope, though.

That's some Jesus level forgiving there. I need to check my Bible when I get home and see if there is any mention of a spunky 13 year old girl with a nasty curveball coming back to Earth in the book of Revelations.

"I know a lot of people get tired of like seeing me on TV ".

Not sure that's an arms race you really want to start. We have a whackadoo stockpile of civilization-ending levels.

Something something CANON! Something something "just create a new character, don't mess with the ones that I grew up with because....reasons!"

You're not a douche, but you have to make your burner mocking a well-known Gawker commenter. Sure thing, pal. Oh, and you suggesting that women need to go after women who falsely accuse of rape is as stupid and unhelpful as telling black people they need to address black-on-black crime.

No we're not. Don't make shit up.

This whole thing should be a cautionary tale about pursuing narrative and cause over analyzing stories and facts on a case by case basis. But alas, the people that need to won't heed that lesson.

As covered elsewhere in the piece though - offensive rugby songs isn't really a "few bad apples" thing. I hung out with a rugger house in college (back in my "cool girl" phase - ugh) and remember these songs pretty clearly. If the other members had been there, it's pretty damn unlikely they would have crossed their…

Actually, if you read the whole piece, only 8 of the team's 46 members were even at the party (the others were away playing a game), the party wasn't an official team event, and the way they've been characterized by the administration isn't exactly reflective of the reality, which is much more complicated than "SPORTS…

I get that. I'm a little wary, though, of making certain kinds of assumptions about that, because I bet if you polled men in committed heterosexual relationships, they would come up with some quiet lifting of their own. Maybe not in the same numbers. My husband could, at any rate, and probably an ex or two. But…