I’ve also seen benevolent ‘powerful’ people bullied by those with ‘less’ power than they.

Yeah, I suppose most things are changeable if you try hard enough. Except for things which have already happened, which really is the topic of this article.

“I don’t think you understand what imbalance of power means. All things being equal, there is no opportunity for bullying.”

I agree 100%! As I was telling deerlady83, several months ago the same thing happened to me in Jez and Gawker comments. I guess when compared to most Gawker readers, some of my views might be seen as conservative. In reality my views are middle of the road, at the most. Whenever I’d comment on social issues,…

Yeah, personally, I think the definition Jia presents of bullying is way off. Even if it IS something you could easily change—say a kid gets seriously and mercilessly made fun of for, like, wearing uncool clothes, for example (and it’s not because they can’t afford other clothes). That’s a totally…

I think society requires that narrative because we live in a climate in which people CANNOT deal with these problems on a large scale.

I agree with you, though I think Jia had some good points in her piece as well. I have definitely seen (and experienced) bullying for the things in my life that were under control, like academic performance for instance. More than a few individuals opt to dumb themselves down for the benefit of their public profile.

I am curious about what seems to be a lack of attacks and venom pointed at Jay-Z? Is that a thing and I missed it? I would think people speaking to him in the same manner would get news time. This isn’t snark. I am curious how “The Hive” can openly threaten a woman and go after her kids, but no one has anything to say…

For the most part yes, however if all of sudden you get 15,000 death threats in 24 hours, and your kids are too, that might be bullying.

I used to think that (and my relationship as an Odd Future fan is endlessly complicated) until I started hearing about cases where people were stalked from place to place online. Whenever they deleted one facebook page, that one was bombarded, whenever they closed and opened a new instagram page, that one was…

I really like this, because I’ve also seen the concept creep going on regarding bullying (no, making fun of a bigot isn’t bullying the bigot), and I also see a lot of power in breaking down when and why internet hate and harassment is distinct from bullying (or ‘cyberbullying’ which is just the same thing but with a…

this explains the confusion. Why put out a video you know people can’t view properly?

Who the hell has time to watch a video? Put the info in the article I and don’t post misleading gifs. I could also say don’t post click bait articles but who am I kidding?

To be fair, he did a poor job of getting his point across.

“Hey I know this doesn’t quite show off the tech since you can’t properly capture it on a non-HDR camera and show it off on YouTube... but here ya go anyway!”

*proceeds to show a comparison screen that makes the HDR version look too contrasty and improperly…

To be fair, you shouldn’t need to watch the whole video to understand why it looks so awful in the GIF.

I agree. The fact that they didn’t address that chemo in your mid-late 40s would almost beyond a doubt put you in menopause, as it does for many women in their 20s-30s who have not have a chance to make choices about family planning, was despicable. Especially with that whole SATC 2 movie plot line about Samantha and…

So to avenge her love, Oberyn Martell, she extinguished House Martell...?

Two things:

Thanks for that tip. I’ll watch it this evening.

I saw this news last night, then noticed his new Netflix stand-up special dropped the day after his wife died. I watched the special—which is pretty good—and just felt so awful for him. There are bits where he talks about his wife and his kid, and death, and it was suddenly a far more complicated set than I think he…