and Nicole Holder not going through with prosecuting this piece of bleep.

I don’t think you get to question her judgement call, given the impossible position she was in, going up against the NFL’s machine. You really can’t blame her for this not going to trial, because there were many other variables beyond her control. Also, that’s a fucking shitty thing to do, to put the blame for this…

This is as important a story as Deadspin has ever done. My contempt for Hardy, Jones and Goodell is matched only by my admiration for Diana’s epic reporting.

Equality won’t be achieved until we women can be mediocre, even bad at stuff, and still be the heroes. Male characters are allowed to be fuck ups. Women should get to be, too.

“Texas has stepped forward and shown its unyielding commitment to both violating the separation of church and state and maintaining the place of women as second class citizens.”

I had salad, and I laughed at it because it was funny, but I forgot to take a picture for instagram, so my salad eating was meaningless.

In the streets and in the fields, one hears the fearsome rallying cry:Good Christ, anything but that!

Sometimes he’s MARVELOUS, and I like a lot of his directorial work (Henry V forever and ever amen). But occasionally he’s doing some kind of Narcissist Performance Art and it’s just intolerable. The dude might as well stop mid-line and go “MAN I AM NAILING THIS, DO YOU SEE HOW GOOD I AM?”

If you’re super ripped and crush pussy on the regular, you’re an Alpha.

Jonathan Swift was a mean, cannibalistic asshole!

Thank you. I am lucky in that I was able to get some really useful therapy. I hope you're ok, too.

This is going to be triggery and maybe TMI but:

And because this incident is being charged as a criminal sexual assault — when it’s actually more like theft of services — it minimizes the act of rape.

And building on that: acid attacks appear where there’s acid. Since it was Europe and the United States that first had the infrastructure to produce concentrated acid cheaply, that’s where they started. See slate.com: L.V. Anderson - Throwing Vitriol: When did people start using acid as a weapon?

America’s GOP is gonna gobble this up, though. They too feel like soldiers by association, wealthy by virtue of their allegiances, and free by comparison to the people whose freedoms they limit. They are a party of cultural appropriations, fantasizing about an authoritarian status quo that might just rub off on them.

It’s not that it “bothers some good people.” It’s that it literally makes Jezebel a much worse place for everyone who isn’t a rapey, misogynistic asshole. After the first comment, every comment from this guy happened because you engaged him. Everyone reading this thread now gets to be exposed to a long string of…

Shut the fuck up. Go drink 24 beers, Chad.

Let’s not fall into an assessment of who is or isn’t rapeable. Damon’s frame for this is fucked up. We don’t have to use it.

As the guy who (enthusiastically!) okayed Burneko’s plan to blog this book, just wanted to note that of course this is being written and edited with an awareness of the fact that you can’t judge something you haven’t read yet. I’ve reviewed, I don’t know, dozens? a couple of hundred? books, and one thing I’m always…