Yeah call me crazy but I don't think the people at Fusion are up at night annotating their Spenser 's "The Faerie Queen" unabridged edition. The problem isn't about etymology, it's about excessive informality. Let's hear you defend this sentence, which begins with a contraction, has way too many commas, and a…

That's exactly right. In fact the comments section is in the shambles it's in because the crazy cat ladies were a) too sensitive to process and ignore senselessly violent images and trust that the poster of said images would be blocked in the time it would take to get the camomile tea made and b) yet too wedded to the…

Are you expecting a drove of commenters on Jezebel, or anywhere, to represent the opposing opinion, that Guadalupe should not have received a pardon? That would never happen. This is clearly a legal and judicial abomination and should receive a large amount of news coverage, and if you look at international media, it…

Congratulations and best wishes. What city? Do you speak German pretty well already?

No, I know. You're right. You bring up some really good points. I had not even thought about this in terms of the "class markers" scenario, but you are absolutely correct. I have some students right now who are very intelligent and accomplished but they come from a very rural community. In those perilous…

Like I said, typical Jezebel. It's OK now, I see, to shame someone for being smart, even though if this were a story about, say, Belle Knox you'd be all over the other position, i.e. "oh no abuse porn is a perfectly legitimate pursuit no matter how it affects other women; a girl's gotta learn to talk fancy and stuff,…

Yeah, I'm one of those "goofy little burners" who has been commenting on GM since 2006.

Always, always the reflexive profanity on Jezebel. Always. Think about the implicit sexual violence in that phrase (and also the other Jezebel go-to "butthurt"). Because when someone doesn't agree with you on the Internet, the first thing to do is to use profanity and the second thing to do is to suggest that he or…

Yes, I noted that in my comment. If Jezebel had wanted to reprint some grafs from a story from a respectable news outlet about this story, they could have found one. Calling this "blockbuster" journalism when real journalists are literally dying in Syria as well as Central and South America to report the news is a…

Yep. This is sort of a similar issue. If you can't restrain yourself (particularly from getting drunk and taking stuff that does not belong to you) in a setting where there are priceless objects (and as I pointed out in that post, it doesn't matter if the "objects" aren't "priceless" to you, or if they are housed a…

I'm sorry, but this is the type of verbiage that passes for English in a "blockbuster report"?

Our species isn't going to make it another couple hundred years.

Very good point. Especially since some of those "agitators' are august bodies such as the UN, Amnesty International, and the IC at the Hague.

Agree with you on the death penalty. In terms of the execution, as horrible as it was, it was probably the least worst of what a foreign national woman endured in the long days of her imprisonment. Torture, sexual abuse and humiliation, isolation, and lack of food, water and medical attention are routine for prisoners…

I really like you as a commenter. I wish you didn't hate us Germans so much in your regular gig.

So that's what it's come to.

It's Jezebel, the Manchurian Candidate of "feminist" web sites...

It's actually not OK, nor desirable for a candidate of any political stripe or gender, to work references to sexual violence or violence toward animals as some sort of "I AM SO WILD EXTREME AND DIFFERENT!" schtick. It certainly isn't funny, and veers toward Palinesque-turkey-grinding judgment problems.

The main thing that's obviously fake about this is that we (Germans) are just not into you Americans in that way. I'm sorry, but we're not.

I was thinking the same thing. Just the amount of judge-iness and body horror in the headline is incredible.