Insecure man in his mid 30's pursues a flirtation with a collage age girl. When she shows genuine interest his anger & innexperience taints the interactions. His only recourse is to exploit power dynamics. He internalizes all of her reactions including not wanting to go on a date at her workplace & dressing…

Just reverse the genders and ask yourself how this story by a guy would be reviewed by jezebel

So what if they’re both rather unsympathetic? I’ve seen people throw that argument around as if it’s something negative, but I thought it made the story more interesting.

If you haven’t, you should read the companion piece, an interview with the author (it’s linked in the original story). i think it really helps color in the details a bit.

She comes off fine in that story. There’s nothing all that terrible about judging someone as you’re deciding whether to pursue a relationship with them. She questions his taste in movies? She questions his attractiveness? She questions his sexual performance? Yeah, that’s what you do when you’re figuring if another…

NO ONE comes off looking good in that story. She waxes poetic about his mundane movie taste, how awkward and unattractive he is, his awful performance, and most importantly, lies about her age- by omission of course, and so does he.

Man, if that’s all you got out of the story, I definitely don’t think your reading comprehension skills are really up to scratch. It wasn’t my favorite short story of all time, but I thought it was a very good dissection of the ways in which confusing power dynamics between men and women interact, and the way in…

Finding out aliens really exists is the only possible ending for 2017 when you actually think about it.

Guess you missed the part at the end where he stalks her and calls her a whore huh? And the part where she’s 20 and he’s in his mid 30s.

Really, there’s only one way Trump making first contact can go down:

Trump didn’t realize the biggest problem with building the wall was that the illegal aliens could just levitate over it.

Life comes at you quick.

Rapper dumba$$idiotXXX can go rot in jail.

Fucking piece of scum I hope he ends in jail.

Here’s the thing, though—if you’re bad at reading social cues and you’re making a major fool of yourself, it is only natural that it’s going to blow up in your face.

I forget the case a few years ago...the Church (El Salvador? Somewhere in Latin America) excommunicated a woman who got an abortion for her pre-teen since she would have died in childbirth but not her fucking rapist.

“Teodora’s tragic story is a sad illustration of everything that is wrong with the justice system in El Salvador,...”

D-O-G, when interviewed, said he himself doesn’t need training, as he is so naturally awesome, but is willing to assist those poor benighted dog-things in trying to slightly increase their own capabilities.

Good article. But, you know? I had to check and make sure this was Gizmodo. A couple years ago, Giz would never have said anything bad about Apple. Then it was said even God was standing in line for the next iPhone.

it’s not like Face ID is an actual security improvement.