...It wouldn’t be unusual to see them leave the front desk and play Frisbee or kick a soccer ball out front. Then during office parties, they would pop their shirts off and serve a tomato-mozzarella appetizer — cater waiters. I mean, these are people who work here.

Video of these "cater waiters" on the way to work:

an unverified Facebook fan page (first warning sign)

Oh Erin, we all knew you'd do a good job delving into this issue. It's just that, there were at least two articles up in the past few days here and another GM outlet. And gurl. They were not good. And sure, Gawker and Rich J are what they are. I don't expect more than LOL CLICK COUNTS LOL TRAFFIC LOL COMMENTER RAGE…

I really appreciate that you wrote this. I hope there was some kind of conversation with Doug and the author of the Gawker article about their pieces. For a website that spends a lot of (important) time speaking against victim blaming, it really was atrocious and disheartening that a piece mocking someone for…

Seemed appropriate. Just like this seems to be an appropriate response.

Yeah, Jezebel seems to have a real thing for finding guys with moderate to serious social, emotional or personal issues and shaming them as douches. There are plenty of complete douchebags out there, and they are totally fair game for shaming. But the shaming of guys who seem more like they're just not able to deal…

Beyond the obvious reasons to be disturbed by this, was anyone else disturbed by simply the very beginning? "If you are standing by yourself at any point, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!! If you are talking to a brother of your pledge brothers when there are girls just standing around, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!!"

It's a tactic of manipulation. It's a subtle (but not really that subtle) insult in an attempt to make you want to prove him wrong. I was walking past a group of men at a table in a club once. I briefly made eye contact with the one who was watching me, looked away and kept on my merry way when he said "Well you…

or it means her hair was just ALL UP IN HER FACE. Stupid long hair, sending all the wrong signals!

I disagree. A marriage isn't about getting gifts, it's about publicly declaring your commitment. If I have broke friends, I'm just happy they made time to show up.

Assume no one gives a shit about your wedding.

I once also asked for a more thoughtful phrasing regarding a certain article. Surprise surprise; it was also written by Doug Barry. The sad fact is, this is clickbait. It's not journalism. Chris Brown's rape is a spectacle here, instead of being discussed as the disgusting event that it was.

Chris Brown has a singular talent for making it impossible to sympathize with him even if he’s recounting a vaguely traumatic incident from his childhood. You know, like that time he lost his virginity to teenage girl. When he was eight.

"Naw, naw, she didn't really mean that. Her mind was a little mixed up, what with hormones and things. You know how women are. I just tell her that if she ever feels like talking to reporters, she should just lie down a while and think of something else until it passes, like housework, shoe shopping, or how the Bible…

Right. Because Rick Perry never gets anything wrong. Except three things.

Well fortunately when the wrong word got stuck in the wrong place, Rick Perry had ways to shut that whole thing down. (With continued belligerent ignorance.)

As a vegetarian who's thought a lot about this, people will always bristle and react illogically and emotionally at what you say re: animal welfare and your reasons for being vegan, no matter how nicely you say it, no matter how little you say, no matter how many times you preface it with "it's just my personal…

What about burglarsonarceny in bed?!

but how do we sleep while our beds are burning?