I will totally hire that guy next time I need roofing work. In fact, I think I might require the entire crew to perform a choreographed number right on my roof. Just for me.

I have my reasons but it will sound like excuses. I fucked up and I shouldn't have said that. I realized it was victim blaming after some people close to me set me straight. I apologize.

Yes. Exactly. In no way was I trying to derail his argument. I don't deny he is harassed (this entire thread case in point). But saying this woman in particular is lying was just uncalled for, in this setting. How does that validate his argument? It doesn't. It belongs somewhere else. Like you said. I just wish these…

Yeah this thread turned into a bit of a mess. GD has been followed by a number of burners for a while - this is actually some of their tamer vitriol. It's appalling, but this wasn't the place for him to bring up his personal harassment as a talking point in the discussion of women being violently harassed online.

That's completely valid. You know I think this site should be more intersectional. The tact you took was nonsensical and completely undermined your point. If you had just said

Oh, so this is about you? Who cares that she's actually been threatened, the real problem is that people are stereotyping gamers, and this hurts your feelings? I'm sorry, but that is just tremendously stupid. And I actually play a lot of video games, and I know from experience that many, many gamers embody the…

But this is a piece about a woman being harassed online. You could argue (and absolutely should) that there are public WOC who should receive similar coverage, but I'm not sure this is the best platform for your personal harassment as a male POC in the gaming community. That's a completely different subject.

Can I say something that might be helpful? I don't personally agree with Grandad's position here at all. I think it's really highly likely that she has been repeatedly threatened to the point of being driven out. But I will say a second thing, there are at least two burners who are just probably regular commenters,…

The fact is, you have no way of knowing that she did make it up. No rational explanation for why that's a reasonable assumption. Even if it were true, who cares, it wouldn't have had any real negative effect. But if it is true, it's some horrible garbage person doing horrible garbage things which profoundly negatively…

What really blows me away about the Anita Sarkeesian hate, which I see absolutely everywhere video game loving people congregate and it never fails to embarrass and depress the shit out of me, is how it's proving everything she says absolutely right. You couldn't ask for a clearer example of the exact kind of thing…

I just want to sic the entire Parks cast on this turd. Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt, the whole lot of them. I like to believe it would start like this:

Holy crap, I only just now realized this is referring to manicures and stuff. In my head when I ready "nail art from home" I was picturing some kind of contraption that created a work of art out of nails in the home. Like a machine that fires nails into the wall in a pattern to make "art" for rich people.

Oh come on. He's trying to network her while they're at an awards show. And it's not the Golden Globes where everyone's wasted and chatting anyway. Let the woman be. No sympathy for this guy.

Don't fuck with Retta OR Donna Meagle.

I think I would probably also ask her to follow me on Instagram, pose with me and then I'd try to invite myself over to her house so we could watch TV together. She's for sure call security on me but I'd do this all out of love and not some bizarre climber douchiness.

I hope he's blacklisted from everywhere. I don't understand people who think it's okay to be so nasty to someone he doesn't even know. What an ass.

He has also insulted Gabourey Sidibe, who I consider my BFF (we once attended the same party and danced to the same song, therefore we're half way to bff status, she just doesn't know it yet).

Bless you for this. I'm glad we're now establishing a scale of importance. "Is he monogrammed coffee thermos important, or only nail art entrepreneur important? Oh, he's Emmy seat filler important? Pfftt."

For real. If I were sat next to Retta, I would be fangirling all over Twitter about it. Plus she has the best celebrity twitter.

"He does have his own production company... and appears to be involved in some sort of venture about a machine that does nail art for you at home."

I refuse to believe anyone has reached the heights of uber-importance unless they sell monogrammed coffee thermoses.