Kind of you to rescue this from the Onion’s waste-bin.

Saying that someone provided a relationship a subscription basis is describing the activities of a prostitute without using the word. It’s euphemism, not subtext.

That was a very specific and well-referenced. I’m convinced.

Got it - I should have been more charitable in my response. My apologies.

Oh, I get it: *he’s* terrible, so therefore we call *her* a prostitute. Makes sense.

Seems that final line is calling Grimes a prostitute, and not in a “sex work is work” kind of way. I’m trying to think in what way that sentiment would be out of place on an MRA forum, and am coming up empty.

I’ve always loved this story. Such a fun bit of history. They apparently made a movie about it starring Hilary Swank.

That is an excellent argument for not funding those countries either. Although, it’s not even entirely a separate thing: two of those countries get the support they do largely as a reward for good behavior towards Israel, and as such those monies are a intended as much for the latter’s security as it is to the…

There’s one, *maybe* two comments like that here, the rest are basically shoulder shrugs. You came loaded for bear, and ended up missing the bird.

Disagree. People don’t tell him he’s a moron, but they also don’t tell him when he is doing things that are sleazy. This guy has prospered because of his loyalty to Charles specifically. There’s no way he does this without Charles’ complicity. I doubt Charles even thought it was meaningfully wrong.

Having gone to one of those, I can tell you that none of them would tell you to publish news other publications had already broken without adding anything original of your own to the story.

Well, since it’s just Afghan women suffering, I guess it’s ok for Jezebel to be flip about it.

I personally would avoid using “the Paks” to describe Pakistanis or the government of Pakistan.

I mean, you’re not hurting yourself by thinking “It’s not for me, so it could only possibly be for some narrow group of aesthetes”, but you’re not helping yourself either.

This would have been more effective as counter-narrative if it had not buried the substance of the allegations under several paragraphs recounting the distractions that were intended to bury the allegations.

JFC: “The medium is the message,” ... The message, written in bold red script across AOC’s white mermaid-esque dress, was “tax the rich.”

I’m not sure why that matters. By their own standards, (“it’s appalling to watch a billion-dollar media conglomerate that likely already profits off a variety of the very exploitative labor practices that many organizers are actively fighting against attempt to generate further profit by selling consumers a neatly…

The article says those were the laws in force in Canada when Alanis was a teenager.

That’s something I’ve seen too - in this case, though, I think there’s also a kind of “ressentiment” at work - Gowan (and others like her) are frustrated they don’t receive the validation and accolades they feel they deserve from the kind of people they want, and so they lash out by loudly embracing values that are a…

So? The writers are, in effect, creating clickbait in order to draw eyeballs to advertisements sold by their vulture-capitalist employer. If anything they wrote here threatened “meaningful change” above and beyond what CBS is doing, Jezebel would have gone the way of Splinter or Deadspin long ago.