Seconding Ireland. You want a hookup? Walk into any small town Irish pub and announce it’s your last night in the country and you’re heading back to Texas in the morning. It was like shark week with freckles.

Anna,

I disagree with you often but I applaud your willingness to follow this story to its conclusion and own your mistaken first reaction. Thank you.

Hey, I just want you to know that even though you really screwed up on this one, I’ve always felt like your writing has been fair and even-handed in most areas and that though you are getting trolled to hell by assholes you’re pretty good at what you do. Nobody bats 1.000.

Yes. After that. That’s why it’s my responsibility.

Just when I was getting used to the fact that no one cared about my stupid boner.

Absolutely, but it's not the job of the illustration to convey all, or maybe even any, of that. They're supposed to be more blunt, with imagery that the target audience will instantly recognise as representative of sexism. The more specific concept of how sexism is manifested in Silicon Valley is for the actual…

Yeah, I've done the same thing. We fuck up. We're people. It's going to happen. At least we can learn from it, right?

Not knowing everything there is to know about identity politics immediately gets you branded as a terrible person who should be run off the internet. I've seen identity politics and social justice language co-opted by some of the worst, most abusive people who use them as a trojan horse for their abuse.

o_O

I publicly condemned the acts of Radical Feminist protesters in Argentina, when they were assaulting men, spraying paint in their eyes, all because the men were locking arms to prevent them from burning down a church. I said that violence is violence, no matter what social equality cause you try to use to justify it.

This is the issue I've been facing head-on all day. I've become disillusioned with liberalism due to massive unchecked hypocrisy in the feminist/racial equality/social ideal circles I frequent. I'll never be conservative, but that doesn't mean I can't hate the ever-loving FUCK out of everyone that is on "my side" by…

Yep! Amazingly, it didn't stop me from expressing my opinion though (and, more tellingly, it didn't stop you from responding to it).

Well, okay. But that's a circular argument. If you had a regular column in New York Magazine, with millions of hits for every article you wrote, then people would care about your opinions too.

You're inferring a lot of qualities onto Chait's piece (like smarminess, unconsiderateness, supposedly demanding that you shut…

"Outrage farmer" is a fantastic phrase to use for this.

There is, undoubtedly, a conversation to be had about the shit that goes on in social justice-y, identity politics-y circles, and I'm upset that this bonehead had to be the one to write this essay, but... there are still some valid points

Thank you. And hey, lots of women feel this way too so can we stop it with the intellectually lazy habit of dismissing everything we don't like by saying it was written by a white dude, so there's no way there can be anything valid about anything he says? It's that kind of immature, irrational siege mentality that…

Jia, honest question: If this article hadn't been written by a guy, what would you have based your rebuttal of his arguments on? Because I'm a woman but I basically could have written that article. I tend to feel the same way as this guy and I agree with him that while I agree with the generally noble intentions…

I truly hate the term "political correctness," but the thing is, there's a grain of truth under all this. The internet HAS produced a chilling effect among leftists, especially aggravated by social media and how easy it is to tweet "Kill yourself" at someone who makes an honest mistake. Writers, comics, satirists, and…