Jezebel was bought by Paste Magazine, and they also bought and will be resurrecting Splinter.

And some unbanning would be great! I have been a commenter for 15 years and was unceremoniously shadowbanned several years ago and I have no idea why! Any look through my comment history would show I’m not a troll or mean.

I’m not convinced her more than passing resemblance to Zooey Deschanel and adorkable lisp aren’t the actual causes propelling her to the moniker. Because otherwise her character description is not MPDG and it demonstrates a real lack of media literacy; almost like a post-modern idiomification of tropes where most…

staunch Sandler supporter Lorne Michaels

This OP comment is gross, but trans people were persecuted during the Holocaust.

Can’t believe this is still up, but I’m a commenter of 15 years that was shadowbanned for criticizing a writer that no longer works here in the politest way possible.

Well it’s a good thing for your fears that talk therapy is one of the many many steps along the road that may lead to HRT. You can’t get a prescription for HRT on a whim. It’s a long and grueling process with a high burden of proof accompanied by expert doctor recommendations.

Weird that a transphobe is comparing SRS to gay conversion therapy, known to be the foundations of the most popular and well-funded “treatment” for autism (ABA). Transphobes blame autism on trans identity too! It’s a whole eugenics movement and it doesn’t have to have internal logic, y’all! And we all lose.

I was in the target demo when I was a kid and I have a very distinct memory of my mom looking at the kids on Barney & Friends and saying “Those kids are on drugs.”

*edited bc I posted inaccurate info.

I mean it could also literally be the truth from his perspective. He thought it was funny (it isn’t, I agree). It wasn’t taken as such because it was in fact, not funny. We can honor a literal interpretation of his sentence and that doesn’t mean he gets a pass. 

Thank you for providing that context.

Ugh, that intra-party hit piece to get rid of him for a shitty sexist comedian bit. The man had a lot of good populist ideas, and knew how to communicate them to amass a following. Of course he had to go.

I think the narcissism starts as as behaviors that can be nipped in the bud to course correct but at some point you have a giant invasive root system that is pretty hard to untangle for that root system to change. He grew up in a time when all of that behavior was tolerated and got famous in that time period. It was…

Well, heads they win and tails you lose.

I’m fine with that!

“ To me it’s always meant a person who had issues controlling their emotions, typically associated with Nerds. ”

These people are usually autistic, which is another disability that’s usually invisible. Whether it be through meltdowns or harmless stimming (such as clapping, hand flapping, fidgeting, leg shaking, toe…

“it’s typically meant a socially awkward person who just needed to calm the fuck down”

Given the most call-ins about Lizzo’s use of the word that I’ve seen have been from the autistic community, this definition tracks, as we are usually dismissed as awkward people who just need to calm down (especially when we are in…

One of my best friends and I have shared an account for nearly a decade at this point. Yes, it’s under their email address but I have full access to the account settings and we have switched off who pays for the entire duration of our sharing, depending on each other’s financial needs at the time. This is so so so…

Condolences about your 15 year old son just now learning of pubic hair.