A couple of take-aways, for whatever they’re worth:

I specifically didn’t mention tem as I see the problem as being more complicated than just being greedy docs and drug reps. (I’m absolutely in agreement that some exist.)

Welp, if Drug Dealers are mass murderers because of the products they sell, we’d better jail and execute every gun manufacturer and tobacco product company. All of GM. Ford, Cadillac.

the talking point goes from ‘let’s empower this young girl who I feel must have been abused for titillation’ to ‘this young girl doesn’t know shit vs. my uninformed take’.

If you want to find anything involving the truth behind a situation, never read the Daily Mail. They are one of the most untrustworthy sources out there.

Actually, they forced a young girl to have her very first kiss on camera BECAUSE of her strong objections and her discomfort with it. They actually told her that they’d just been joking about her having to do an unscripted kiss, but because she reacted so negatively to the idea that they therefore HAD to do it,…

Let’s not forget that they forced a young girl to have her very first kiss on camera despite her strong objections and her discomfort with it. So the news that they are dicks to other women wouldn’t exactly knock me down with a feather.

I remember there was a story about a school secretary (?) a few years ago who intercepted an armed shooter coming into the school and engaged him in conversation about himself and why he wanted to do what he’d planned.

I’m guessing it has to do with where the money is going. 14.5m to the Archdiocese, vs. 15.5m to the Nuns. With the latter, my guess is that they’d fund their new quarters; the former...rely on handouts from the Archdiocese with whom they are clearly on bad footing.

Why the hell is everyone so upset about what the writers did with their afternoon? Why do you care? Do you pay their wages? No! So shut Up and leave them alone, they don’t work for you.

Kennedy is responsible for three of the most important gay rights cases in US history. Had Bork been confirmed instead of him, gay sex and gay marriage would likely still be illegal.

I’m sorry that the posts here seem to be all a weird mix of entitlement and devaluing your work. The how dare you not post and entertain us for a whole afternoon and writing is not a real job anyway crowd (not to mention the whole why you didn’t post while striking about striking like they didn’t understand that would…

Fuck the haters. I don’t know why everyone freaked out on y’all for your “privilege” in striking when tons of people who strike are very marginalized, and the best thing those with privilege can do is show solidarity and use that power to help make conditions better for everyone.

You claimed we took a “weird afternoon off.” We set the record straight and said that we went to a protest. You demanded photos as proof. I provided some. I’m really not sure why I’m the dick here.

And where were all of you yesterday?

Would you care for a shitty pic I took before my phone died because the cold weather fucks with the battery?

international women’s day is referred to as a global strike because, historically, that’s what it has been. its origins go as far back as a garment workers’ strike in 1908, and has been associated with labor ever since — at least, in most of the world. it’s never big here for the same reason that we don’t have big May…

Hmm, that’s unfortunate. There was a large strike/protest/march in Washington Square Park, which the entire Jezebel staff attended during our “weird afternoon off.”

This is an honest-to-God line that is uttered during the highlight with seemingly no awareness of the indictment it carries: