MoGlo, I went from Tokyo (all the snow) and was about to go to DC (even more all the snow). But now I'm stuck in LA because my flight was delayed.

It doesn't take away from the fact that this is incredibly racist, but I think it's important to point out that this isn't a real live black woman. The entire thing is furniture/sculpture. Still super racist, but it's not like she's sitting on a living, breathing black woman.

he's just using the Anita Sarkeesian tactic: Blocking and disabling all comments, even the most polite, fair, rational and reasoned comments just because they disagree with you. Can't handle constructive debate and dialogue? - just block comments to make yourself feel good, and prevent the audience you're trying to…

This is so typical for someone in a place of priviledge and power to go and say "Oh, this person's reaction to my actions is not my responsibility. Maybe if she hadn't been so deceptive this wouldn't have happened. (because it seems clear the reporter sees being trans as being deceptive) "She was suicidal anyways,…

Heartless mother fucker.

COME TO GROUPTHINK!!! Tis awesomeness.

I'm fine with criticism. I'd like to become better, and listening to criticism is a good place to start. But Groupthink posts speculating on my mental health posted in a space that the participants never thought I'd read isn't "criticism," it's performative outrage and gleeful, shitty small person bullshit. I wouldn't…

Okay, let's take your points one by one.

Well, that's shitty, but sometimes GTers do shitty things too, and I've done calls for civility so it's definitely not something I allow to go unremarked if I see it. I wasn't happy with a few of MoGlo's recent articles, and I didn't think they were funny, but that is the extent of what I said.

Wait, what? Was this a post, because if so, I did not see it.

And yet, it does happen.

The $10,000 reward suggests they thought the images would be shockingly, outrageously edited, and worth an ~expose~ about how women like Lena aren't allowed to appear in their natural glory. The actual minor retouches, and grasping at "but this is still a lesson, kids!" are kinda womp-womp.

Yup. I hope they're embarrassed.

Pretty much all of your heavily contributing, years old veteran commenters pretty much agree: this was a bad idea.

Let me answer your question with another one:

Amen. My jaw dropped at that headline.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

I just want to point out that the first time we did this was when this blog launched in 2007. The result was the Faith Hill cover of Redbook, which led to many important discussions about how and why ladymags "fix" women — a conversation that remains vital.

I truly credit you for taking the time/money to upgrade cat meals. My cats get Purina wet food around 4 times a week, and they are spoiled to the point where anytime I put dry food in the bowl, I get bitched out by a 2-cat cacophony of protest meows. It's a slippery slope.

Unfortch, I worked out in SoHo because it's near the Gawker Media offices. I spend my sleep-time in Brooklyn.