When we first met, my gf was a reporter working on the emergency beat, so she dealt with cops daily. She fucking hates them. I used to try to be all like, "Oh, I'm sure most of them just want to do the right thing and help people and blah blah blah," and she would just say that people who wanted to help people…

Donald Glover was in the writers' room at that time, though, wasn't he? I'd like to add this to my bag of reasons to love him, if at all possible.

Same as Jackson. As I understand it, the goal is to get the Jax nickname, and the logic is that there's only one syllable of sound after that, so who needs an extra S hanging around. Same phonetic baby-naming that produced Britney.

NC winner is a Duke law school student. So...yeah, I'm actually fairly impressed that he's #notadick.

Your issue is ridiculous and invented. I've been a feminist for over 30 years, and I have never — not once, not ever — heard anyone argue that everything that ever happened has one and only one cause, and that is sexism. Nobody argues that. If people are shooting down your alternative suggestions and saying sexism…

Exhibit A on why "believes in equality" is too low a bar. Lots of people think "women and men should be equal" is a "fine" thing to say, and then go on and have zero understanding of how class oppression works except for some vague sense that feminists blame men for stuff, which seems unfair. That's the rankest sort…

Hillary Clinton is a serial rapist? Thanks for the tip, Dr. Kadogo — I had no idea! You're right, her career has really gone well in spite of going through the "rigamarole" of being accused of decades of sexual predation, so obviously Cosby's will recover in the exact same way from the exact same situation. …

Mostly ethics in gaming journalism.

Seriously, I kind of like knowing that I'm dealing with a person who thinks my feminism is terrifying and probably a character flaw. Shows me exactly to what degree that person is ever going to take me seriously or respect me as an equal, which can handily determine how much trust I invest in them.

I'm going to dispute that. I think that "feminism" most properly means an *interpretive lens* on history and society that acknowledges that women face class-based discrimination. In other words, if you think women are and should be equal — that is, if you think they ARE equal, right now, and that all your individual…

Of course it's a reward. It's your door prize for being so goddamn virtuous! Why else would women gang up on and bully other women who've been victimized by rapists? It's certainly not something you would do if you saw yourself as *lucky* you weren't in their shoes. It only makes sense if you're taking the…

I think the right thing to say in any traumatic situation is always, "Let me know if there's anything I can do for you." It avoids assuming that you know what someone needs or wants to hear, guessing at their feelings, etc. etc. It lets the person suffering stay in control of their experience while you stand on the…

I probably would have spelled it Rebellion myself.

Apparently we get to keep living it until we get it right.

District attorneys are elected, and they always have an enormous influence on police behavior. If people seriously care about this issue and aren't just treating it like a tv drama, then I'm begging you: be informed about and vote in local elections. The turnout is low for these things everywhere. A hundred or two…

Okay, this is stupid on all the usual levels, which I'm sure someone else has the time to explain to you. But in specific, Bill Cosby has been SUPER FUCKING FAMOUS since the 1960s. He was not "a strange black man they barely knew," like he was some weird dude who accosted them at the bus stop with a handful of…

Reaching for the positive in this story: ROCK ON, OKLAHOMA KNITTING FEMINISTS.

He lives here in Chapel Hill, and trust me, he's around town all the time with a lot of different college girls. There seems to be nothing unusual at all about your feelings.

I always thought it was a little surreal that "Bill Cosby Himself" — which, watch it again!, is largely about how impossible kids are to manage without just whaling on them at the slightest provocation — turned into a tv show about "America's Dad."

A "stern talking to" about one's grades really should happen while the person in question is still in school. Perhaps then it's motivation to do better. At your graduation, what is the goddamn point? "You should be ashamed" is the takeaway at that point. It's clearly far too late for "get your act together and…