Did you watch the video, or just read the article? That’s after a cut. After the interviewer making it pretty damn clear this statement was a problem. In the moment, that is no joke.

Buddhism is rife with sexual assault (of men and women) and gross misogyny, same as any other major religion (there’s a major NYTimes piece, an XO Jane piece, books have been written, e.g. Turning The Wheel, and so on, just google). It’s no surprise that the de facto “leader” of Buddhists would hold problematic…

Shh. You’ll puncture their delusions.

Not if you watch the video. The interviewer looks deeply puzzled, offers his the way out to say he’s joking. He doesn’t take it. Asks again for clarification: “You’re not joking?”. He says, completely flatly, “Serious”.

All major religions are fucked up patriarchies! Just a reminder.

Lord, no. I would’ve Taken It To Kinja, you bet.

If a Jez writer does a post and a man doesn’t approve of it, did she really write anything?

I kinda just smiled and said “wow that was super fucked of you.”

The moment I meet my very short, balding blind date, he skips the introductions to say this:

“Girls who have been raped are normally fucking crazy; you actually seem really normal and pretty stable.”

I have run into a certain attitude towards harassment complaints from businesses. They print policies saying “sexual harassment is bad, OK?” but when a complaint is made, the company line becomes “oh, harassment is bad, but we only hire good people, good people don’t do bad things, so the accused must be innocent…

Read his timeline and you’ll find his motivation and mindset for a “boots on the ground” solution for the world not agreeing with him that much easier to understand.

Honestly? Every single group I've left by my own free will for personal reasons has done this type of thing. People like to have control over other people. Get upset about it, and they win. When I was a teenager I switched to another horse riding trainer and immediately everyone who was taught by the first horse…

Mainpaging is actually part of the structure. This is a subblog, and eventually I hope it will become its own thing, but for right now, it doesn't really have its own readership. Everything gets mainpaged. I'm afraid I disagree that the quotation does not in fact "bear that criticism." I consider it supported, and I…

Thank you! That means a lot.

This is an excellent piece of journalism. Callie and all the Jez staff should be proud of what they've done here. I've been an outspoken critic of a lot of the stuff that goes on here but stories ike this are whyw e need places like Jezebel, to do this kind of reporting and bring these things to light. What makes me…

Look I found another brown Muslim. Crying about Fox News is a rational response when you get called out on your bullshit. Fox News doesn't cry about brown people, you do.

MUSLIMS ARE BROWN

I never once said Muslims are evil. Don't imagine things in your head so you can get yourself worked up. Read what I actually wrote, the words that are actually on the screen in front of you.

What's the point in having a computer? What's the point in reading the news? What's the point in having a comments section? What's the point in arguing, in debate, in learning about religion or ideas?