In September, 32 girls in Chicago went on a religious retreat together. By November, their text message chain was riddled with racial slurs that got five of them suspended or expelled from their high school

Kindly read the 4,000+ word history I just spent months writing explaining why that is a gross oversimplification before you comment.

Oh. Good. Lord. You realize the comment delay is because while Lindy was at Jez the comments were full of graphic rape pictures, right? A lot of the commenters were awful.

but there can be two really great feminist writers though. there could be like three or four or a hundred even!!!!!

so gtfo with your snotty knowing shadow cliche.

Not as heavy the shadow cast by the superior Roxane Gay, whose shadow Lindy continues to live in.

Yup. Lindy West has a well known history even outside of the Gawker community of being a target of vicious harassment. I’m not in the least surprised or offended that she’s written off comment sections entirely.

She engaged with me here on multiple occasions. Very well.

Seriously? Commenters ARE horrible quite a lot of the time—even here. Can you really blame her?

How long have you been carrying that chip on your shoulder? It seems heavy.

She was one of the best dirtbag writers Jezebel will ever have had. Like laugh out loud funny! What she does on twitter is invaluable.

That’s the part that enrages and baffles me the most (aside from everything else, I honestly can’t decide). You literally hire actors to pretend to feel emotion. There is no reason to force them to actually feel it. There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like…

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation.

It’s strange to me that this is news now. I mean I’m glad it’s being talked about. But she said this FOREVER. Now people believe it because they heard men verify it?

I wouldn’t say that. She trusted that the principal would help her and he did.

These are kids; telling a trusted adult is not a “wasted step”, and it also allows her some accommodation from the school, so she doesn’t have to ride the same bus with him or whatnot. Give the girl a break- she did nothing wrong. No one can ever be a victim perfectly enough to meet everyone’s standards.

It’s kinda splitting hairs but Taylor ok’d the might have sex line and that’s all the phone call shows,she’s always said the part she objects to is the made that bitch famous part so the phone call didn’t prove any sort of lying

One of the questions on the Reddit AMA was like, “which rumors about Scientology are not true?” And she was like it’s all true.

I’m not a Swift fan by any means but this guy clearly believes in his own story at this point, Taylor isn’t stupid, like most women... we know damn well when someone is groping us... if I’m correct he’s trying to place it on the person who fried him (how convenient)... fuck this guy.

I know we’re supposed to hate TSwift here, but I have no doubt the dude groped her and is mad he’s being held accountable.

I feel like I don’t remember isn’t a good defense. No one believes you don’t remember being around Taylor swift. I haven’t listened to a single Taylor swift song under my own will and I would remember meeting her. He acts like he reached towards her and immediately blacked out.