Isn’t that the twist of all revenge plots, though? You become so obsessed with your revenge that you lose your humanity in the process, and become that which you initially hated.

This whole story may be the dorkiest thing I’ve ever heard.

Oh ya. I think he got spoiled on his Instagram, I HIGHLY doubt the rest. Like why would a guy who just a year ago took glee is spoiling a film, not go day one again, for arguably a bigger movie? Makes no sense.

Stop it. Some stories are so good that their truth is irrelevant. If someone came forward and admitted the whole thing was bullshit, this story would still deserve to be spread far and wide as good bullshit.

Sadly the likelier situation is that none of this even happened, so we’re reading some loser’s loser fantasy.

I actually added a lesson last year to the composition and rhetoric class that I teach on the world “believe.” I did it for just this very reason. We talk about how the sentences “I don’t believe in vaccines” and “I don’t believe in Santa Claus” or “I don’t believe in eating meat on Fridays” are fundamentally…

Here’s an edit I would make if I were on Pete’s team: “Vaccines are safe and effective. Pete believes they are necessary in maintaining public health.” Please stop putting the ‘believe’ part in front of the fact part. Facts are facts whether or not you believe them!

Looks like he knew the law enough to spend a lot of time talking with her first and waited until she was 16 to lure her. Clear grooming. But from the looks of it the plea deal was contingent on no prison time because the family didn’t want to retraumatize their daughter and the defendants lawyer refused any pleas with…

And they try to say men don't hate us. And they try to say we have equality now.

I can’t even read this article. Nothing will surprise me. The total disregard for women's suffering is nothing new, sadly. I’ve been consumed by true crime podcasts lately, because my job allows me to listen to things while I carry out menial tasks. My overarching takeaway is that people ignore their gut far to often,…

I read the whole story before getting to the separate press release at the end explaining that the author was a classmate of the students involved.  I didn’t have any trouble understanding the story.  However, I’m having a lot of trouble understanding why anyone would think it was either confusing or a big deal that…

He did? In the well showcased press release attached to the article?

Check it out everybody: a blogger from the Kinja-verse (where spelling/grammar mistakes sprout up like fungus on the forest floor after a rainstorm, and “emphasis mine” is frequently used in placed of the more objective “emphasis added”) is lecturing on how journalism is done.

I feel like disclosing the affiliation at the end of the article is fairly common journalistic practice. Also, I’m not sure how this changes anything except that his affiliation with SLC is probably how he found out about it. If this group was as insular as the article suggests, its entirely possible he never would…

I attended Sarah Lawrence from 2006-2010. There was definitely a problem with non-students hanging around campus all the time and/or straight up living in the dorms. My freshmen year roommate had her non-student boyfriend live in our small dorm room with us for about half of the school year, and she wasn’t the only…

“By leaving out Marcus’s relationship to Sarah Lawrence, Marcus and his co-author, James Walsh make an omission that makes a complicated story difficult to fully understand.”

New York disclosed the co-author’s affiliation in a press release

It looks like they did disclose it, only at the end of the story. If people are formulating an opinion about the story and not reading to the end, I’m not sure more context is going to help their understanding.

There was an entire sidebar to the article about this:

But Gods thrive of belief not facts, these days we take our tech for granted we only notice if our always on high speed internet isn’t working, when it does it’s business as usual. New Media could supplant the God of Technology when viewed in that light.