Some observations of themes so far this year:

It’s interesting to me how there are so few creepy actual people or stranger danger stories (don’t worry I saw you Machete Gang and yikes) so I get the vibe that a lot of the commentariat is still not all the way outside. I started an in-person job in April and have had…

Checkmate.

That person’s response was probably the exact mix of ignorance you pointed out combined with (thankfully/hopefully) limited direct experience in a true, wide-scale natural disaster...

Maybe if the app expanded into Russia, they would find the ladies they want.

Problem: The water table in Florida is extremely low. You can’t go burying important cables in what amounts to porous, constantly moist sand that much of the state is built on.

Have you never met a military spouse or a law enforcement spouse?

While I know this job can be dangerous......For FUCKS SAKE your husband isn’t going off to war for a year. Jesus Christ.

They should fill the forms in with really crazy data...

I have a Google sheet I created last year with stories for anyone who kept losing their place in the queue due to the auto refresh https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j2ky_p2wnu_0jsCcVkxrkX7Mj_oM8ZmXHJmgvtOuJ-M/edit?usp=sharing

I dunno Rich, I guess I can conjure some snark about it but for the most part that video seemed to be guys trying really hard to communicate the best way they saw to deal with a situation in which one of their friends and business partners destroyed a personal relationship with his family and with them and also abused…

....he put their entire business in jeopardy. All they did was explain the situation and apologize to their staff and fans. That’s it. They also stressed multiple times that the families involved are the real victims, and that women usually bear the brunt of online criticism and they dont want that to happen so please…

What an amazingly obnoxious and aggressively stupid article/tone. I cannot overstate just how obnoxious this article truly is. The amount of needless and unwarranted snark is immensely off-putting and entirely pointless. Yes, how dare they be upset that a guy they have been friends and co-workers with and built a…

Is Jezebel paying for the asshole take to incite outrage? That’s the only excuse for this steaming pile.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but they didn’t do anything here, Ned did. As far as they knew, they were having fun and doing stupid things and making money, just going about their day and then this jackass in one fail swoop ruins multiple lives and livelihoods. THEY have to now make statements and figure out their…

Agreed. Fulmer did a bad thing and potentially fucked over their entire team, ruined multiple friendships, and made a fool of his wife who was also their good friend. The video’s tone and message were perfect. Rich is just being a piece of shit because he wants to seem edgy. 

Fuck you Rich. The remaining TryGuys did everything pretty much perfectly, right down to hiring a human resources consultant immediately out of the gate, and not sweeping anything under the rug.  They also did their best to protect Alex from the shitty misogyny that will inevitably levelled at her.

I had no idea who these guys were before this started being reported, but I think this is a little harsh. We want people to take these things seriously. I thought their emotions seemed genuine and I appreciate their transparency.

I grew up in a small town in central Illinois surrounded by miles of corn fields in every direction, broken only by the interstate to the east. Class sizes hovered around 80, and it wasn’t unusual to invite half the class to parties. This was especially true for kids who lived on the outskirts of town or out in the…

Holy crap, it’s already open?! Well, there goes my afternoon.

Yeah, people in other countries don’t ever fall for demagogues and lines of bullshit. It’s uniquely American. 

Wrong. The answer is to have the woman sign a consent waiver and be able to get the medication. Then the doctor is legally protected and the woman isn’t treated like a child who doesn’t know what she wants. Easy peasy.