If you happen to believe in the“intentional fallacy.” “Intentional fallacy” is an approach to interpreting art. It is distinctly not a fact, despite what you claim.

Isn’t this the draft she originally sent to her editor to be published? It certainly sounds like she “wanted” it be published to me.

You know, it’s actually possible to have heard of the death of the author and not believe in it. It’s not like denying climate change or evolution.

why is that wierd?

But she did intend him to be published as a racist — it was her editors who declined this draft. If she had had a different editor, this book would have been the one that came into the world in the first place. It wasn’t like this was a private draft.

You seem to have a really, really, difficult time tolerating things that might make you uncomfortable.

And so, if the Atticus Finch of Go Set a Watchman is a bigot, if he finds—or found, or explored the possibility of finding—common ground with the murdering terrorists against whom he defended Tom Robinson, this will implicitly repudiate To Kill a Mockingbird.

are you dating an NBA player? If not, pretty sure you should break up with any man who wears basketball shorts

Fair enough!

But your argument wasn’t that “what Hope did isn’t all that bad.” It was that “the incident in her private life doesn’t diminish her athletic achievements.” The incident in OJ’s private life — or rather the alleged incident, since he was found not guilty — equally doesn’t diminish his athletic achievements.

He’s had unattractive, repellent women star in his projects before — isn’t he a producer of Girls?

The incident in her private life doesn’t diminish her athletic achievements

You’re right that women should be paid more, but how on earth is “percentage of revenue generated” an “arbitrary metric”?

you’re so cool and popular

because, for some people (with apparently very little else going on in their life), being Jezebel popular is REALLY REALLY REALLY important, and they attribute their non-grey status to some sort of moral virtue.

look! boring, objectifying language can also be directed toward men

this is the worst post ever

The only acceptable boners on Gawker Media are lady-boners. Everyone knows that.

Except he wasn’t talking about the fact she, a non-white person, happened to exist in the world, he was talking about how there are few women of her particular ethnicity making mainstream adult movies. Thus, she’s rare. With no airquotes.

I bet that’s not remotely true