If Jehovah’s Witnesses went around forcibly kissing people, then yes.

That’s right. It’s an issue of historical context and how that shapes the meaning of the words we use. That word coming from the mouth of a white person has an inherently different meaning than it does coming from a black person. That’s what linguists call the connotative meaning of a word; the meaning it acquires…

“This video really was out of innocence

Yup. That word belongs to one group of people, full stop.

Nope. Not even close. I am a man who is frequently online and I have never and will never face the kind of harassment women do.

Do you really think that men face as much harassment as women online? Honestly?

I can’t with these back in my day people, and the levels have been at an all-time high since the move to Kinja.

His idiotic essay was on a widely read site. It’s fair.

I mean, everything that Erica has written and said is constantly under discussion at Google (I still have a ton of friends who work there), so her speaking out IS changing things, just very slowly, despite what she thinks. Even if it’s just to avoid a bunch of horrible negative press, they are making way more effort…

...a baker should not be required by law to make a cake that says “Support Gay Marriage,” as opposed to being required by anti-discrimination law to just make a cake for a gay couple’s marriage.

Exactly. This cake is more on the side of a political statement than someone just going about their life. If someone came in and said I want a “Support Life”, “Support Choice” cake, etc. then a business should be able to say no.

“Business owner disagrees with my beliefs/lifestyle and refuses to create a product that celebrates or memorializes same.” I’m kind of with him on thinking this is okay, in theory — if I owned a bakery and some racist skinheads came in to buy cupcakes, I would sell them cupcakes (and go “ick, ew” under my breath the…

I want to preface my response by saying that I absolutely am strongly in favor of gay rights and think that under anti-discrimination laws, a baker should have to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple just as for any other couple. But this wasn’t a wedding cake, it was a cake with a specific message on it saying…

He’s backing what he sees as freedom of speech; it’s pretty clear he does not agree with bigotry.

Seriously, does Vargas-Cooper moonlight for 4Chan or something?

I was going to say that this is pretty disgusting. Because a woman happens to possess a particular role at a particular company it’s “funny” to take her stolen information and run around going, “OMG, pube dye! LOLZ!”
It’s not funny, it’s horrifying. She didn’t post this voluntarily. She isn’t providing an endorsement…

You realise this is exactly how some guys justified the celebrity nude photo hack? Just because she’s rich doesn’t mean she deserve a basic modicum of respect. You’re mocking her private purchase of pubic hair dye for god’s sake.

What exactly is the net worth cut-off for being worthy of this kind of crass violation?

Seriously. Rich means they don’t deserve privacy? Fuck this post.