I’m with ya on that one.

Exactly. People are only OK with this because they don’t care about, or actively dislike, the victim. And given the general tone of this site, and Gawker in general, this is a VERY hypocritical stance. If this exactly same stunt were pulled on someone else with whom they sympathize the comments would be full of long…

This isn’t about their politics, it’s about making sure everyone knows their politics.

Wish I could give your post more stars.

This isn’t cool, it’s mean. Consider whether you guys would want your private purchases displayed by any conservative who wanted to grandstand.

MICHEAL BROWN?? You fucking morons! Did you not get the memo? “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!” was a bullshit story that his shithead criminal friend told — DOZENS of witnesses refuted that fairy tale! WTF are you even thinking listing that asshole as a victim?? Freaking Eric Holder and the Justice Department couldn’t even…

MICHEAL BROWN?? You fucking morons! Did you not get the memo? “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!” was a bullshit story that his shithead criminal friend told — DOZENS of witnesses refuted that fairy tale! WTF are you even thinking listing that asshole as a victim?? Freaking Eric Holder and the Justice Department couldn’t even…

You do realize the cop in that case is Asian?

What floors me is that there are two predominant reactions - and you are reacting to one but are pushing the other.

Dude, seriously? That’s bullshit.

I don’t feel I’m being piled on. Someone else said that, I said I wasn’t bothered because this is basically what commenting on gawker is like.

I think you explained this phenomenon better than I did. I usually do what you do, which is just roll my eyes and scroll by, but today I decided to ask and see what the reasoning is for doing it. I didn’t really get a satisfactory answer besides “people grieve differently” which is strange to me because I wouldn’t say…

No I read it. She straight up said it was too hard for her so she was going to ignore the story for her own sake and instead talk about cake. I think that’s tacky and gross. I'm done arguing with you about it though, obviously you think that's cool, and I think it's self-absorbed.

You got me. I'm actually the one that posted about the cake to begin with! It's been me posting about baby animals and cake all along.

Your comment makes a lot of sense. If that was the point she was attempting to make, I sort of understand. I still think it's gross that literally every time someone posts about violence against women someone rushes down to the comments to post a non-sequitur.

What feelings? She literally said “I’m going to ignore this because I can’t talk about it so instead I’m going to talk about my cake" if you can't talk about it, then you just wouldn't. Instead of making it about cake.

If she just went and baked a cake okay, that’s processing it. But posting a comment that has no substance besides stating “I’m going to ignore this to talk about my cake” is performative and gross. It’s wanting “likes” for talking about yourself.

Because we can’t even have a conversation about violence against women without someone jumping in to make it all about themselves it's gross.

Because it’s completely narcissistic to take something horrendous that happened to someone else and make it about you and your cake. If your way to “process” is by needing validation of your narcissism I'm going to judge.

What's the point of a comment like this? You aren't the only one to do it, sometimes people make it about animals or gifs...but why? If the article bothers you so much that you can't comment on it, then why don't you just not comment? Why try to get attention for your feelings and your cake on an article about someone…