They actually understand pretty well that some marine mammals need to breath air, being they themselves are one and that a hunting technique they (at least in the North Atlantic) use on seals are to literally “drown” them.

I have actually been in the water with wild orcas and I know of quite a few divers who has been in proximity with orcas during dives. The size and strength of the animals are always something to be mindful of. They don’t need to intend for it for the encounter to become a fatal. Haven’t experienced it with orcas, but…

My family was of the same mind, deeply suspicious of any type of health system, they discouraged me from even contacting any healthcare personnel or going into therapy. It became so bad that when I flatlined it was either seeking help/getting meds or suicide. I tried help and am on them today. It was not the misguided…

I’m sorry, but this is not the case. This is American ethnocentrism. The Sami people belong to the Finno-Ugric people (hence the confusion with the Finns, whose immigrants in Scandinavia suffered discrimination for not being Germanic/Finnish) and the Nordic countries have been dominated by Germanic peoples where you…

I think she did it well too. I think that sometimes, in the argument against “killing them with kindness” is that sometimes coming out too hard also can be counterproductive and create a platform for the homophobe and other phobes to stand on outside of the initial discourse which can be more harming. I think Ellen…

It’s a bit of tone-policing at its lightest. But to me it came of, at first at least, as Bobby telling Ellen how to do gay. And to be honest, people are forgetting that it was Ellen’s trust and platform that was tried exploited and for Bobby to ignore Pharrell in all this is so weird.

I think that while their claims of responsibility might occasionally seem ridiculous too us, we forget that we aren’t their target audience.

Thank you for the links. It was a very interesting read

It’s perfectly fine :D It’s a horrible tragedy and I totally get it. The thank you is in the context of me allosaurusfragilis and Istanbul Matters asking for coverage in other threads and the reactions to the requests (Istanbul Matters and allosaurusfragilis did some serious lifting with the negativity and dismissal…

True, true.

To be hones the term has become a bit diluted in meaning, and most countries have their own legal definition of it. It is of course explained by the fact that each institution and nation-state defines terrorism according to their experiences and historical circumstances (for Turkey it’s among others PKK which is…

Sorry, there has been some weird arguments for why this wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy (before Hanna posted) and some weird/angry replies to my comment (which I dismissed). You were the friendliest so I wanted to explain my point (because apparently it was unclear). Sorry for passing that on to you, you didn’t deserve…

I think you might be reading in haste. I’m not saying it isn’t a terrorist attack, I’m just pointing out which demographic the attack is targeting and stressing how it will probably have a large impact. Reina’s target market is probably a significant contributory cause for why it was targeted and the fact that it is…

It’s very much “on trend”, but this will probably have a large impact because they’re expanding their reach socioeconomically. There’s a segment of Reina’s whose socio-economic status has protected them from attacks and who was targeted with this attack. The point being that this is not the kind of place the everyday…

Thank you Hannah, you’re a treasure! Reina is a very high-end and secular night club. It lays along the Bosphorus and caters to the very rich and famous. It also has a considerable clientele of foreigners, having been visited by Kylie Minogue and Daniel Craig. I don’t know how to communicate the impact an attack on a…

They (Jezebel) have covered terrorist attacks before (and even that of the Atatürk attack) so I don’t see why it’s unreasonable to expect a continued commitment to such coverage. Considering the contextual discontent with Western media’s coverage of terrorist attacks outside of the West it’s bit unfortunate.

Be that person. Especially considering how terror attacks in Turkey are routinely ignored and the hurt feelings western solidarity with France(Nice) caused when it was not extended to turkish victims of the Atatürk attack.