So true. I am terrified of snakes, but sympathetic to abused animals of any sort—and I'm sure these were abused.

Exotic snakes: doomed to sad, little lives as the reluctant pets of drug dealers and assholes.

I have a lot of feelings about this whole War Machine thing but I will just summarize by saying that I hope from here on out the world is very unkind to him.

Good breakdown of why his conclusions are dumb. I have found no lack of people interested in having meaningful conversations on OKCupid. Generally, if you find that all your conversations are shallow and boring, the problem is probably you. You're the common factor.

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

I just want to write dude, not dismiss bloody rape gif trolls every day. It is the worst part of our jobs to hear from commenters that they can't discuss, say, a teen girl being great at Little League without some person boasting a burner account using the collective comment thread as a chance to harass people.

It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.

Um, I think it's worth celebrating that he was able to achieve his fitness goals despite having an illness that made it very difficult and that he's able to feel confident in his body despite assholes like you.

Thanks for pulling out the quote. I'm not Christian but I was pretty sure Jesus said something negative about praying ostentatiously in public. Presumably he wouldn't like people to pray to him for discounts at restaurants, either. I'm just guessing.

I was wondering if some Muslims praying would get the same discount. What about some Wiccans?

I would really like to know if they give this discount to anyone that prays, regardless of religion or which god they are praying to. I'm not religious and am not a fan of people praying before meals but they can do what they want, it's not hurting me any. I'd probably fake a prayer to get a discount. I have no…

I feel like, if you are looking into surrogacy, you should make it clear in the contract before inserting fertilized eggs that you have no interest in raising any potential disabled children, so that the surrogate knows going into it that she might have to abort, keep the disabled child, or give it up for adoption. …

I only have a few things to say on the topic of "better or worse religions" Buddhism, and Jainism never had a cleric who told young men to strap on bomb jackets or go out and kill the non-believers.

The implication is that he was motivated to illegally tow cars based on the assumption that the owners were gay. If so, he was targeting a crime at a group of people specifically. It amounts to an act of intimidation. It would be a story if they were gay, black, women, jews, aussies, or any of the above combined. He…

His lawyer used the words "pseudo-tribal psychological voodoo" in an attempt to explain what happened? Done with this world.