Essays on why we engage with certain pieces of pop culture at certain periods of our lives, and how we relate to them and their flaws in later periods of our lives are a whole genre, that in the right hands, can be quite compelling. Much more compelling than the “bad book still bad” salad bowl full of low-hanging…

Such a person might have something interesting to say about its appeal: more interesting, at least, than the news that a book that was famously schlocky when it was published is, 30 years later, still schlocky.

So, “Gen X” is, by your own writing, tangential to the battles over political correctness. And Coupland’s description of it is, by your description of it, wrong and incomplete. Yet Coupland’s blindspots are then attributed to the Generation as a whole, and then those blindspots are linked to the failure of political…

“Or it could be neither of these things; I won’t speculate any further.”

If you want to talk about Chris Brown, you could search the archives for any the the dozens upon dozens of Jezebel articles slamming him, find one where the author said anything exculpatory about him, and come back to show it to the class.

The safest approach for Jezebel, and Joan’s posts in particular, is to assume that there is a lie in there somewhere, and usually somewhere foundational.

You may well be entirely right! And perhaps you agree with the author that the best way to pursue the goal of equity is to complain like a hang-em-high Republican about the softness of alternative sentencing measures when they occur and pretend that they are judicial innovations, rather than fight for them to occur…

How you read my tone is not something in my control. I would suggest imagining my words in the voice of Julie Andrews, or perhaps Oprah. That might help.

I am better versed than Jezebel’s writers, apparently, and am disinclined to dig up links for them. I was able to cite a directly comparable example to support my point off the top of my head. The program in which Cooper participated is not a recent innovation (check it out if you don’t believe me). Jezebel has no…

It isn’t unfounded. I have heard of many cases where this has happened (one of which I cited), know that this is a program that has existed in New York for years, but am not going to do the research necessary to dig up the links. That’s something the people being paid to write here should do, not me.

That deportation isn’t meant to be vindictive, and that you were once theoretically subject to it, doesn’t mean that it isn’t vindictive or that you should have been. It uproots the person’s entire life and that of their family if they have one in the same way prison does, but does nothing to ameliorate the underlying…

I am going to do zero research on this (I’m not going to do Jezebel’s work for them), but still with 100 percent confidence say that Amy Cooper is not the first person to receive this kind of treatment in New York for a crime on the level of filing a false police report. I will, with 100 percent confidence say that…

Could the editors of this site decide if they are in favor of justice system reform, and what they want it to look like? Because there’s a thoughtful post from *this morning* on how punitive justice measures like prison are waste of time and help no one. The alternative to that system is going to end up looking…

Yes. The rule is that threatening a person in misogynistic terms because they asked a question you don’t want answered is never acceptable. There is no cancer exception to this rule.

If you are putting Twitter privileges on one side of a scale and Jewish lives on the other and they come out equal, your scale is weighted against Jewish lives.

“Time has told” = The thought leaders at Jezebel noticed that the wind changed direction and a jogging to catch up.

Agree, mostly. But people in uncertain situations hold on to talismans and taboos as well: that’s why the various decisions around parenting are so fraught: formula is poison! co-sleeping is insanely dangerous! NOT co-sleeping will traumatize your baby!

“Hillsong Church preaches “prosperity doctrine,” which means if a volunteer donates to the church, they donate to God”

Trying to understand here: is it your position that one cannot be an informed citizen unless one has however many hours in a day to watch CSPAN or whatever while this plays out, and that reading news reports about it is insufficient?

I recognize that, fate being fickle, anything could happen to this woman. I also realize that you are not her doctor, and you have no idea if she is at “high risk” let alone in a situation where one could reasonably describe what she needs to do as something that will “save her life.” Making that claim says nothing…