This may be the silliest article I have ever read on Jez (and that's saying alot!).  Many times in my life I have wished that there was a system to identify at risk youth to facilitate outreach programs and prevent lives of poverty, crime, and abuse.  They may even stop a school shooting or two.  Is it unusual that it…

It sounds like one of those social experiments as to how far “normal” people can be pushed.  Not the abuser but everyone else in the room.

Second that opinion. Way back when, I went to the San Francisco pop up during a visit with friends in town. The service was horrible, disorganized, and slow. They dropped half our order and when we asked them to take the missing items off our final bill, it took 30 more minutes. I also woke up to food poisoning the…

It’s frat culture creeping into workplaces. The notion that you’re supposed to “pay your dues” as a young upstart somehow went from working hard and proving yourself to tolerating abuse until you get over the hump. Initiation and hazing rituals never stop.

“Now he took the red-hot spoon and placed it directly on the man’s arm, searing his skin and causing him to cry out in pain.”

I agree with you. I work in an industry (nursing) that’s also known for experienced nurses abusing the newbies. And I just don’t understand why it’s just accepted as fact. The justification seems to be “you’ll get to do the same to the new nurses once you’re more senior” as though that’s something I should look…

As a former WSN reporter (35 years ago), I have to say this hurts.

Overall, they sort of came across as petulant children who maybe needed a little discipline. The person who yells “Stop treating me like a child!” is usually acting like one in the first place. (coming from a parent of two teenagers)

i was with the students til this, “The staff was told that word had to be removed and instead replaced with “killing.” Journalists are required to use the word “killing” before a death is classified as murder by a court conviction, or the publication could be sued for libel.”

Or just pointed out there is an implicit ‘and’ between African and Caribbean. Medical diagnosis ‘stereotypes’ by finding objective commonalities of risk in order to narrow the focus of inquiry and concentration. It’s not a sociological assumption, it’s an identification of a shared risk group.

Before writing about Margaret Sanger, I suggest people read the work of Esther Katz, the editor of the Margaret Sanger’s papers, for information about how Sanger’s record has been distorted. Here is a link to an article about Sanger: https://watermark.silverchair.com/3378350.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL…

I feel like this argument is a deflection. Everything in it is correct- however, Viacom didn’t (or at lease didn’t say) they fired him because of the anti-white shit. It was because of the antisemitism. And that isn’t just words, that’s stuff that actively hurts and provokes violence against Jewish people.

That’s actually how a news article is supposed to be written. The things that are absolute truthful facts are presented in a clear manner. It looks weird to people because we have had decades of opinion pieces and advertisements masquerading as news.

Sine the driver was a black man then maybe it wasn’t an attack.

He was an alcoholic well before he had a film career, something he used to mention in interviews when he first came on the scene.

Schwarzenegger made AMAZINGLY good movie choices though, and his extraordinarily limited acting styles fit perfectly within them.
He was also a very good physical actor, as one can see in Predator and the first Terminator.

I guess my point is, she didn't do this to get these two guys to stop making stupid jokes at the time, she did it to make an example out of them and it's not like dongle jokes are especially egregious, something which you noted yourself. I am completely against institutional sexism, and this was probably an example,…

Listening in on a conversation that you weren't invited to is called eavesdropping. It's considered rude by most people, but apparently, not by professional victims of offense.

One, it sounds like what she'd say after being caught out being stupid, and two, aren't there other ways of addressing the larger systemic problem without making a mountain out of a molehill and posting publicly about it? What have we learned from this, exactly?

If he had to be fired, it's good that she was fired too, because she had no call to go that far with a couple of guys making jokes. They didn't say anything suggestive or insulting to her. She had no right. I'm happy to see she got punished for refusing to mind her own god damned business. This isn't a man vs…