Yeah. I love Kemper’s work on Kimmy Schmidt and she does sounds like a cool, self-aware woman, but I can’t imagine the memoir of a person under 40 years old (who has overcome approximately zero adversity in life, relatively speaking) being too riveting.

OUT!

Also…

What about s*mpr*n*?

The last election was for 4 at-large council seats. So Althea is, indeed, the closest runner-up having come in 5th place since 1st-4th place are currently serving.

Most recently, Garrison came in fifth for an at-large seat on the Boston City Council, winning a little less than 7% of the vote. (Other fringe contenders included a former youth worker and a literal clown.) According to a longstanding municipal ordinance, when an at-large seat is vacated, the closest runner-up is…

It’s actually just footage of a Winnipeg/San Jose game.

OKAMA GAMESPHERE

This is probably the closest anyone has come to my thoughts on this topic as a whole. Both what you said, but also the way Deadspin people seem to downplay their past comments when comparing them to Barstool and others. They call people out (correctly most of the time) for awful shit, but then their own past rape…

According to the Kinja mindset, you must be terminated, Barry.  Your growth as a human, your sorrow and regret, the era you grew up in and even your youth mean nothing.  You said mean things, so you must be exiled until the offended deem you worthy to crawl back to them (and that will be never).   

This whole comment section and this article is complete garbage. It doesn’t matter how old you are or if you “remember” writing this they are absolutely horrific jokes and inexcusable. Barstool has made some poor taste jokes but never to this level and trying to brush this off is ridiculous. At a certain point you…

i mean...you couldn’t write this article without a) getting defensive, b) making excuses, c) doing a “yeah but” with barstool, and d) pulling the white (male) guilt card. that sure is something. say sorry, own it, and make it about you. no need for a thinkpiece for you to try and explain it all away.

Hi, I’m Barry Petchesky.  I think other people should be held accountable for the things they say, but i was just a kid, so I get a pass.   

You got caught partner - now go stand on the sideline with all the other hypocrites. After everyone on both sides are inevitably disqualified, you can start a new game of Dogmatic Dodgeball.

So Barry here is why this is problematic: you wrote these things 12 years ago. You just spent 4000 words fauning all over yourself taking about ‘how much you’ve grown up’ since this went down. You made a topical reference to Kavanough to throw the stink off yourself, and called it an article.

Pretty soon I imagine the Deadspin staff will all ascend into the sky as gods, and take their rightful place on top of of humanity. You guys (and girls!) are as close to a modern day jesus as there is.

Leitch’s piece is just so silly to pretend he had no part in any of it. “The people writing for Barstool were the people writing in the comments section when I wrote about Holley Mangold”

Portnoy’s a tool, this apology is fair. But I guess what I don’t get is the need Deadspin employees have for PFT Commenter to condemn Portnoy. There are, as trolls in the comment section bring up constantly, tons of sexual harassment accusations against prior Deadspin/Gawker employees floating out there on the…

Barry, I’m pretty sure you’re still an obtuse, dumb AF, none-too-funny shithead. Being 22 doesn’t excuse that, and while you certainly wouldn’t write or say such things now, I’m pretty sure that the soil that grew such sentiments is still within you 

The idea that Deadspin specifically, and the former Gawker empire generally, isn’t still premised on casual cruelty is ludicrous on its face. The targets may have changed, but the mean spirit and bad faith remain the same.