can we petition to add pakalu to the tweet beat list?

Fine then. Watch my 49 minute youtube video called “Why feminists are ruining gaming” where I talk about that one girl who didn’t date me that one time. Also, I don’t play video games.

what a bunch of babies

I know, right. Its a brilliant piece of entrapment for them (even if it was totally unintentional).

So, let me get this straight...GG, according to itself, are not the ones who are harassing Wu and Sarkeesian. BUT when Oliver brings those women on to talk about their harassment and no one says Gamgergate, it’s still about Gamergate according to Gamergate.

I am not a huge fan of Taylor Swift’s music and, for a long time, I wanted to hate her . . . but I just can’t. She is pretty awesome.

I... have no snark. Good on her.

Yes why

You know, we can have more than one hero at a time.

She talks a good game, but I doubt she’s actually going to do anything revolutionary to reduce racism.

We’ve come to a very strange place in American politics when I’m happy, as a voting citizen, that a candidate is displaying the national penchant for stating the obvious.

I’m not an American by birth, but I’m fairly well assimilated and grew up consuming lots of US pop culture. Most of the time, I think I have it figured out. But I have the say, the fact that so many people find it hard to say “this was caused by racism” is profoundly baffling to me.

The people who pronounce it wrong, and then pronounce “pieces” wrong so it rhymes with how they say “Reese’s” (ree-cees pee-cees) are the worst.

My best friend is beginning her neurosurgery internship in the fall and ademantly calls it a “Reesee cup.”

Say you have a friend named Reese.

No. Because "that is inappropriate" is a statement about *others*. It's the term we use when we're dictating healthy behavioral standards for society at large. e.g. "Watching porn with a 5 year old is inappropriate." That means it isn't cool for *anyone* to do. Your experiences should be used as basis for statements…

Please don't tell her how to feel about her own experience. It is not your place to instruct her on what her emotions should be about something that happened to her.

That's great and all but why do you think anyone (especially the author) needed to know, or even cares really, about your unwillingness to empathize or understand? Not every thought or feeling you have is important enough that you have to express it, especially when it only serves to compound someone else's trauma. I…

This is some brave shit.

As someone who was unlucky enough to end up with a father who never lived up to the title, thank you for this. There are some pretty fantastic dads out there, and you are one of them. This was a fantastic, inspiring, heartwarming piece. :-)