Do you know of any cases where online harassment caused those physical effects of PTSD to happen and it wasn’t taken seriously by the authorities? I would be sincerely interested to hear about it if that’s actually happened.

I’m aware of cases where online harassment led to the victim committing suicide and it was taken very seriously, including criminal prosecutions of those involved .

Mr. “I can’t even turn off auto play on my social media my seizures are so serious” Eichenwald, really? I’m sure you refer to rape victims as “Ms. I can’t even get a cab home instead of walking home late at night Smith” as well.

I just also think women who experience physical reaction to online harassment *that is as serious as a grand mal epileptic seizure, i.e. possibly fatal,* should have that treated as seriously as this guy.

Both are deeply wrong, but while a rape victim who sees disturbing images or words would be deeply upset or anxious, they would not be in immediate physical danger, whereas an epileptic person who’s unknowingly exposed to an image that causes them to have a seizures could be seriously hurt or possibly killed depending…

Agreed. It’s definitely true that there are a large number of people who don’t like Amy Schumer personally because they’re misogynist and would give her special 1/5 whether it was good or bad, but I sat through the damn thing yesterday evening, tried to go in with an open mind, and my honest rating would be a 1-2/5.

I haven’t played this game yet, so maybe I’m wrong, but based on your description and others, the joke seems a bit more nuanced. The character is a man who is trying to trick the Gerudo into letting him in their city when he wouldn’t be allowed normally, and to accomplish that he’s willing to go in super deep cover as…

“DESK” doesn’t mean a literal desk, it’s a mnemonic Briles uses to remember to “Deny Everything about Shielding Kids who committed rape from consequences because they were good football players.”

IMO the rule ought to be that if you’re taking testosterone, you compete with the boys. Making him compete with the girls is the worst of both worlds because not only is the policy basically just a fuck you to trans people for being trans, even if the hormones are legitimately for therapeutic reasons and not to…

The scheme breaks down with some of the more abstract names. Do we really want to live in a world where the Oklahoma City Thunder is required to go around scaring random people’s pets?

Part of it is that one of the best tactics for NFL teams to twist the arm of their cities was to say, “Well if you guys won’t pay, *Los Angeles* doesn’t have a team, I wonder if they’re interested...” Now that bargaining chip is gone, so all the owners are in a weaker position.

But maybe the public would find out and be sufficiently pissed off about your employer’s decision to associate with that client that it would be bad for business to stick to their guns and be seen as aligned with that person, and maybe your employer would decide it was better to walk back the decision to fire you or…

Isn’t that a big part of the issue? If everyone in the group didn’t drive, they either couldn’t go do any outdoorsy activity or they’d have to chip in for an uber to and from the woods and see if the ambulance makes it on time if someone got hurt. Someone does have to drive, and everyone else who doesn’t is dependant…

That’s where I come down on the issue. I don’t think boobie streamer content is morally wrong or anything, but Twitch has no obligation to provide a platform for it if they don’t think it’s in the spirit of what their website is about (which it isn’t really IMO) or attracts the wrong kind of person to the site (which…

I don’t think they need to completely eliminate downforce or the arms race to have more downforce. What they need to do is strictly limit the size and configuration of aero elements (wings, defuser, etc.) so that the disruption of the air by the aero of a car in front doesn’t prevent the car behind from passing. They…

IMO the fact that this is such an uncommon situation shows that it’s not really a systematic fairness issue and just letting people who identify as women compete with the women is for the best. If intersex women were winning 75% of the track and field medals and many events had basically become “men’s and intersex…