You missed the Greek life apologists, who will assure you that #notallgreeks and then point out a 5K for breast cancer they walked once in college while they were a Sigma or a Tau or whatever the fuck.

It’s neither clever nor well-executed.

Reminds me of perhaps the finest eulogy I ever heard, care of Bert Cooper on Mad Men:

I’m with you on this one. I’m late 30s and at no point has the “I should have biological kids” exceeded 50/50; usually it’s under 10%. I’ve never been or tried to be pregnant. I know adoption is difficult, expensive and not available to everyone, but I don’t believe the world owes me a child with my DNA and I’m…

Adoption was actually our first choice. That makes us in the definite minority. We were lucky enough to adopt 5 beautiful babies. I sincerely don’t want to sound meanspirited but I have never been so in love with my own genes that I felt that I HAD to pass them on.

Was it *most* of the kids though??? It still doesn’t make sense to call it accidental. She didn’t bump into her and knock her over. She was beating her up. If teens don’t know you can kill a person that way, maybe they need to take a time out in jail to learn some basic biology. I have zero sympathy.

I’m going to stick with the view that beating a person to death is not regular teenage behavior, but thanks for your input.

Is this really normal teen behaviour? Seems to me it was an extreme minority of teens back in my day. How is beating someone up an accident? Oops, my fist slipped. Repeatedly.

Violently assaulting other people should not be allowed for and excusable as normal teenage behavior. Because then we allow that the killing of teenagers is an acceptable result of normal teenage behaviors.

Seriously, these comments drive me nuts, and I’ve been seeing them on several recent news articles involving teens doing truly awful things. Killing a person while you beat her is not teenager behavior. Teenager behavior is grabbing a pack of beer and running out of the store. I mean, you’d think that killing would…

I didn’t act like this teenager when I was a teenager.

Um what? Hitting another person repeatedly in the head is not a ‘teenager acting like a teenager.’

Right? The fact that she had a heart condition doesn’t mean that these girls didn’t kill her. If they hadn’t attacked her she’d still be alive.

I do separate the art from the artist, most of the time, but I wouldn’t insist on anyone else following my example. I would only insist that someone recognize the very clear difference between enjoying a product and endorsing the behavior of its creator.

The best you can say about Woody Allen is that he regularly…

I feel like I’ve heard of this before. Cult or not, who the hell pays a self-proclaimed “Jesus” figure $600+ a month to tell them how to live?

they all write (and I’d imagine, by extension, think) in the exact same style and tone, which could simply mean that a certain sub-type of person is attracted to this group, or it could mean this group creates a very specific sub-type of person.

The comments from current members are a great testament to the accuracy and fairness of your article. Those are exactly the kind of comments I would have expected current members to write. I actually thought at first they were parodies.

Brilliant film, particularly where he starts to get sucked into the image himself, and has a hard time reconciling his original intent with what he had become in the minds of other people, and how to get out of it without hurting them.

Step 1: Find terribly wounded people.

I’m the opposite of a tech bro/transplant; I come from a family of educators, work in the public sector, and was born and raised in San Francisco. That doesn’t change the fact that I and the majority of my native SF friends are not fans of those neighborhoods. They’re too suburban - there’s no ‘there’ there, and…