THANK YOU. Flares balance out my birthing hips and make my short legs look longer.

My two cents:

I have a love-hate relationship with dating apps. For me, they’re the end-be-all (or however you say it) of dating and hooking up, since I am just HORRIBLE with anxiety in person. I have so much trouble starting a conversation or going over someone I haven’t met and saying hi, let alone flirting... It also doesn’t…

My only three serious relationships ever came once from OkCupid, and twice from Tinder. For the most part, I’ve only been using dating apps these days because I haven’t had time away from work to be in those kinds of social areas to meet women.

Yeah, seems about right. Good times.

*sigh* No 

You know ... this is something I will never understand. I had to pour all this time & effort into learning how to look good and make conversation because I knew otherwise men would simply ignore me. And yet and still - men (like you do here) seem to just shrug and say “I’m terrible at X and Y and Z that women like” —…

Ahh! Well, first I must say that don’t own any hats that look like these. Aside from the striped one, the others look like scrambled eggs on a plate, lol.

“When I’m hanging out with other girls, there’s always SO MUCH DRAMA.”

Wow, this takes me back to my raver days. 1999 - 2006(ish)...so the era is about right. I don’t give a fuck, they were comfy as hell and looked great for chubby-legged girls like me.

man, this sucks. i’ll always associate tom with how phenomenally smart gawker idealized itself to be. and cutting, and irritated, and a lot of things, actually. craggs and AJ were reasons you didn’t brag about reading gawker properties at family gatherings; scocca was the reason you did. it takes someone really,…

“Only a complete moron would need a year to plan collusion. I’m like a very smart and stable person and could do it without even thinking!”

“But but but.... I really am special. And I do hate drama. And I do know at least some sportsball terms. Did I mention I grew up as a tomboy? And that I’m perfectly comfortable being in gym shorts and a ratty T-shirt all the time? I mean, except when I choose to glam up. Then I do it and do it well. But I don’t feel…

“On Smarm” is, to me, a perfect example of what Cook was talking about where Tom would jump 30 seconds ahead in the conversation and pick up where the conversation was naturally going.

Reading this made me get upset over Gawker’s murder all over again. I’m not joking. Such a great lineup of mostly great writers, it’s good to see so many in one place again.

Well. I’m a trans POC who is unapologetically pansexual and am flamboyant in everything I do. The conservative guy at work flies a NRA-stamped “Don’t Tread On Me” flag at his desk? I get a trans flag and a rainbow mug.

So it’s irrelevant that myself and other queer men are hurt by it? Who cares, so long as it pisses off the squares?

This isn’t about silencing you to protect the precious feelings of straight men, it’s about the fact that your fellow LGBTQ are hurt by it, but you don’t seem to give a shit.

I’m 100% with you on not giving a shit if straight “allies” don’t like our language. But speaking as an accomplished cocksucker, I’m not super comfortable with this part:

ur not wrong but if ur not gay i dont really care

You’re not wrong. I’m cool with reclaiming “queer” as something positive, but “faggot” still drives a knife into my heart.