Hey guys. So imma put this here even though I’ll likely have a post about it soon: yes, I will be leaving Gawker Media. It’s been a fun run, but it was going to end sometime.

I’d like to see Don Lemon debate like this or de-construct racial epithets like this.

That looks like what his response would be to Don Lemon’s existence too.

From a memo from Gawker Media executive editor John Cook:

Perfect!

Fuck...really? How can there be no Kitchenette? That’s a bad decision.

Did you read the article? Or hell, the fucking headline, where the word genderqueer is used? Or did you just come down here to spout some nonsense and purposely look like a damn idiot?

Is this the place to discuss the layoffs at Gawker today and the firing of Natasha Vargas-Cooper and others?

What would you do if you weren’t a Bear?

I’m typing in that cautious tone where I’m trying to figure out the extent to which you have missed the point.

To you. *shrug*

Uh, they aren’t? That’s sort of the point?

this is highly reductionist. colloquial usage of words shifts and changes over time, especially when marginalized groups reclaim them. it’s valid.

I bet his Muslim friends hang out with Kim Davis’ gay friends. You know, in the fictional fantasy land they both live in.

hot take alert but

I am continually embarrassed and mystified that this rancid offal of a person is not only tolerated, but celebrated on the national stage. I almost wish that idiot from Alaska was back.

Their harmonies are spectacular, and they have great voices. The fact that they sound so clear and pitch-perfect on a shitty phone recording is really something.

There’s so much to appreciate about Missy Elliot, but man, the videos..! Has she ever released one that didn’t look both amazing and completely original? Damn.