So, let me get this straight: Missori cops want to punish black men for putting their hands up and saying "Don't shoot." Hrm.

you know what I find offensive? 18 year olds getting shot and prosecutors intentionally throwing the case

This has reduced me to tears. Not because I had the same experience — because I didn't. I drank like an alcoholic fish during my college years — in parties at my college, and in bars (where I lied about my age), and in frats, and in guys' rooms at other colleges, and basically anyplace I could get ahold of booze. …

Here's what drives me especially crazy: everybody, especially journalists, hate the canned non-responses that celebrities give in interviews. They crave interview subjects who say provocative and interesting things. Then, whenever a celebrity or athlete actually says something controversial, they find themselves in…

I come from an ethnic family, with lots of enforced touching, lots of enforced kissing of older people, lots of enforced kisses, and that's why I didn't object when my neighbor, and, on a separate occasion, his son,put their hands all over my private areas before I was even five. All because I was taught I'm supposed…

I've seen this written elsewhere, but it rings so true: If you read this, and your first thought it, "Hey, she might just be saying this for attention!", then you're doing it wrong.

Good to know the people issuing death threats have a champion and a person willing to excuse their behavior.

Listen, it sounds like you're trying to be open minded about this, but don't say these things out loud. It is so completely insane to suggest that she is doing this herself that it boggles the mind. Think about what she gains (her videos are already widely talked about and discussed, and the harassment that she gets…

and a possibility other people will cling to with a desperate, feverish hope, because it allows them to claim that THEY are the real victims, not the people being threatened with death for daring to let a woman speak at their university.

I'll just wait here for the #notallgamers crowd.

I'm a gamer. I have been for thirty years now.

I'm also a heterosexual, cisgendered white male—and while I sometimes have questions or concerns about Sarkeesians methods and research practices, her message isn't off the mark at all. She's onto something, and I think…

Feel free to disagree with her views, but your comment is belittling a pretty serious situation . It's kind of crazy to go on a post where someone threatened to kill her and shoot up a school, crack your knuckles, and say "Can't wait to see who she blames for this one!"

Dude, it doesn't matter who she points the blame at. Shit like this is a reflection of us all.

By you essentially calling her a raging man-hating feminist you are perpetuating the very reason she is speaking out. You are the problem here.

Oh boy

Maybe people should read them though. They will tell you a lot about the social and political context in which this is all taking place. Ignoring them is to ignore a big part of the problem.

Any serious athlete is going to have days where they push themselves and easier recovery days. Going hard everyday is a recipe for burnout and ultimately failure

You're not helping.

I don't know what to do with this entirely pleasant and useful post. How am I supposed to rage against your choices now?

You're an idiot. gourmet goober may not be a parent, but he/she was at one time a child who has experience in being able to privately communicate about very personal issues with a medical professional without an overbearing parent. Regarding this very specific issue, it's not about being a parent, it's about being…

It counts. They were selected based solely on their political leanings.

yes, I gladly applaud when someone anti-human-rights is fired for being anti-human-rights, and complain when someone pro-human-rights is fired because some borscht-sucking robber baron got offended at support of human rights. Guilty. Of being on the side of good.