It is not the linked article that I disagree with; it is the dozens of white guys all over the comments at these sites making apologies to the rest of us, pointing out their “woke”ness, and otherwise drawing unneeded attention to themselves, much like the ur-brah of this behavior, Michael Moore—did you know that Moore…

I’m sure this comment makes sense to you.

Yeah, I’m not a man. Really sick of attention-seeking white dudes (taking a wild guess here) all over these threads, though. Read a fucking room, man.

Right. That’s why you needed to make it ABOUT YOURSELF.

You could have just said that without the added faux-consternation about “being right.”

Is there a reason why people do this? I mean link to their earlier comments to prove that they were correct in their predictions? Do you want us to congratulate you?

Yeah, for me I started thinking about it after reading a long NYT piece on train conductors who have experienced suicides, and the PTSD they experience which it seems the MTA is not equipped to handle. And it’s not an uncommon occurrence, given that many of these people hold their jobs for decades. So either they or…

You are a natural :)

LOL. That sounds annoying, but you must have a nice face to make all the people want to bug you.

I think the problem is that people need a lot of practice to master the art of no-contact eye contact and to develop instincts of whom it’s OK to talk to randomly, and that only comes from being born/years of living here. I never want to see tourists standing on the train, absolutely petrified of looking at anyone,…

Well eye contact sometimes can’t be helped, ya know? Not that I advocate staring at anyone, but I’m also not afraid of my eyes landing randomly on somebody, because it happens. Blatant refusal to look at someone can also set off the crazy (“disrespect”), looking down meekly is also inadvisable “weakness”), so I keep…

This is awful, but the “EXCUSE ME!” left-side escalator runner in me LOL’d

You know who scares the shit out of me? The wild gesticulators. Like, how fucking stupid do you have to be to suddenly thrust your arm into the air while telling your stupid story on a crowded train platform? I swear, more than people who suddenly stop walking in pedestrian traffic, more than the four-across “Melrose…

Especially in Times Square. It’s got a barely concealed level of 24/7 crazy. Don’t tell the tourists ...

bitch please

I don’t know, the managing editor? I’m not saying that it is ideal or even that it can absolutely work in all circumstances, but consolidation across subimprints is hardly unusual and it’s better than losing your job, yeah?

Wow. That was way harsh, Tai.

Shit! I stand corrected. I know I saw a BBB listing showing an F when I was discussing this with someone else when the series was first announced, but that was through a google search, not by going to BBB directly (I had never even heard of the company), so I must have been looking at an outdated page/rating.

The reason Allure sucks now is because they dumped its awesome founder and EIC Linda Wells in order to Millennial it up (with a new EIC who is technically Gen X) and it’s been a disaster and I’ve read better bus station pamphlets and it is never coming back.

Doesn’t it matter that Gwynnie Bee has an F rating at the Better Business Bureau and that the death knell has been sounding for Birchbox for a while? Maybe I wouldn’t care so much if a silly show had business failures acting as business experts, but then I saw the preview of that Gwynnie Bee CEO (sidebar: “Gwynnie…