Wide awake.

Am I supposed to hate him for this? Because I don’t. He sounds perfectly reasonable here.

“It’s such a tricky topic for me because I don’t ever want to minimize how much that happens to women all the fucking time,” he says. “They say one in four women will experience some kind of sexual assault in their life which is fucking insane and heartbreaking. So as painful and surreal and fucked up as my situation…

I.... have no idea where you’re going with that headline or this article?

I feel like the lede here should be “Conor Oberst was falsely accused of rape, and OH HEY uses the opportunity when asked about it to be publicly compassionate toward women who’ve been assaulted.”

That...seems okay as far as comparisons go? Maybe even a bit understating it, since this accusation was another person’s willful act and accidents are, well, accidents.

This has totally happened to me too. On multiple occasions, I was actually informed that I am the only girl he’s not “allowed” to hang out with. Cool!

who should never be allowed to put his past behind him

It’s embarrassing to admit, but it’s Taco Bell for me. Cheese quesadilla. I’m gross, I know.

Hopefully not. Many victims recover from rape and have happy fulfilling lives.

Hmm. I have mixed feelings. What he did was terrible but in general, I’m against criminals that have served their time continuing to be punished once they’ve been released. When you’re out, you’re out.

Yeah, this. A lot of women in “real life” are not like self-proclaimed feminists on Jezebel. Many women don’t like and don’t want their husbands or boyfriends to keep female friends. I’ve seen it happen a few times. It’s the truth. It’s funny to me how some people here are so upset about the writer telling it like it…

My new bio!

A writer who’s decided that being a cross of Helen Gurley Brown and A Riot Grrrl is a good thing.

He’s been at it longer. He has his own site and was writing there long before the Kotaku gig. He also is pretty responsive to reader feedback and can listen to people, which seems to be part of the job. 

Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting and strange that she just accepted that letter writer’s framing of erectile dysfunction as being something that is someone’s “fault”. It might just be wording, but I really think it’s a mistake to push off something medical as just being one party’s responsibility. It’s not…

It’s odd to me that Dr. Nerdlove over at Kotaku, a video game website, gives more empathetic, reasonable, healthy relationship advice than Jezebel, and he manages to do it with a far less condescending tone.

Last off, his wife probably told him to stop hanging out with you, duh.

I’m already cringing imagining Anna Paquin’s attempt at a Scottish accent.

Uggggggggggggggggggggggggh.