Before this article was published, a number of women including Lexi falsely claimed they created it, in order to make it harder for the fact-checkers of the Katie Roiphe/Harper’s story to verify who actually did it.

To clarify, her story here is that she installed spyware on her own computer to catch him while he was using it. That’s shitty and not somebody I’d want to be in a relationship with, but it’s not an invasion of privacy. You have no expectation of privacy while using somebody else’s computer.

Yeah, he’s trying to get ahead of the story. This is not a post anyone would make if this was all there was to it. Maybe you do some quiet self-reflection, but that’s it.

I think that’s the point.

Dayton chooses Franken’s replacement. It will be a Democrat.

Franken would be replaced by Minnesota’s governor, who is a Democrat and would presumably replace him with a Democrat. It doesn’t leave the seat open. It doesn’t change the numbers in the Senate or make it any easier for them to pass ACA repeal.

Just search for Jeanae White.

Oh, back in the Livejournal days there were entire communities dedicated to discussing emo/pop-punk/hardcore band gossip and hook-ups that covered all of this. I know the fueledbygossip archives are still up.

Oh my god, I was just thinking about as almost identical experience I had—can’t remember which band exactly, but it was one of my little sister’s first concerts and my parents only let her because I went with her. And I remember the band screaming “Show us your tits!” to this crowd of mostly 14-18-year-olds . . . and…

Hurley used to have parties at his house in Milwaukee and invite all these girls who were obviously underage, too.

Case in point: I don’t even know which member of Fall Out Boy you’re referencing, because I’ve heard stories about more than one.

Yeah, I remember being a teenager and feeling like they wrote all those songs to perfectly express all my Complicated Teen Feelings (tm). And then having this realization at some point in college that they weren’t expressing my Complicated Teen Feelings, they were expressing their Complicated Male Feelings about how…

They had plenty of misogynistic lyrics, but the one about the windshield was about an ex-friend. (I’m pretty sure it was part of the Brand New/Taking Back Sunday feud where they both kept writing songs about how much they hated each other? I guess we can all finally pick a side in that war. At least until some TBS…

As somebody who was real into that scene as a teenager—almost every single band in that scene had at least one guy doing this kinda thing, and everybody knew. The other guys in the bands, bookers, promoters, publicists, fans, journalists—everyone. The bands were mostly in their 20s, the fans were mostly teenagers, and…

I don’t know if I would even call it an open secret at this point. Harvey was openly accused of sexual assault a couple years back. It was a big ongoing news story for about a few weeks but nothing came of it.

Yeah, I’m dying at this being presented as some sort of new trend. 99.9 percent of girls who go through rush don’t do this, and a certain type of girl who will only settle for Pi Phi at Texas or Phi Mu at Bama has done this for generations.

I’ll give you several explanations:

Rush consultants have been around for at least a couple decades, and before that there were plenty of old biddies in the South playing the same role for free.

It was obvious that something was really fucked up on that set, ED-wise. I don’t think any of them actually confirmed it until after the show had ended, but as someone who struggled with various eating disorders around the same time period, there was absolutely no question that something was wrong.

This doesn’t exactly seem like a difficult problem to resolve, either. Put her on a six-second delay, bleep her swear words but not the rest of her speech. Give her the same time to make the speech as you would anybody else, then do whatever you’d normally do to get somebody with an overlong speech off stage.