Based on the comments, it was plenty cutting. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about what’s witty (looking back, the source quote for the headline is a blunter take on Roxane Gay’s tweet), and I cop to being terminally lowbrow, but I was mostly lamenting the humour that commenters used to have more of. Not…

New Girl is to 2 Broke Girls as The Godfather is to… well, 2 Broke Girls.

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It's definitely playful.

Steep flashes a nipple in Silkwood. It's intentionally done to a co-worker who has made a friendly jab. More cheeky than sexy.

That headline was taken from the article, and it was a damn funny line. And irreverant. (And the article was a thoughtful roundtable with well-reasoned arguments.) This commentariat has always been an incredibly, uniquely funny bunch, but that's the thing I find to be changing.

Trolls swatting off is part of the problem.

And no one ever stopped talking about her in a sexual manner, including in this very comment thread.

You know what? I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it.

Aw man, I was one ___ghazi away from a row.

"doing breakfast"

I'm already fighting against the tide with "bemused," which 90% of people are happy to get wrong.

It would also be ironic that Tea Partiers don't know what colonial means, except that they don't know what a lot of words mean, so it's par for the course.

This is what Nader bashers don't seem to remember. History has been kind to Al Gore, but he wasn't an inspiring or compelling candidate in 2000.

According to Dave Eggers, who sat through a Trump event, most of his supporters just find him really, really entertaining. Their jaded view of the system makes them think the President is going to be a hamstrung disappointment anyway, so hey, why not this guy whose outrageous routine delights us?

"We do not discuss it with computers."

Even the one deaf guy in "Loud as a Whisper" was more Barry Gibb than hippie.

And when did he learn how to type? Every non-voice command in his time requires two pushes of an unlabeled, flashing button.

George Takei made a few phone calls.

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