What a shitshow but also why is he trying to argue with teenagers (who have a cursory understanding of social justice and are using it as ammo) on the internet??? That will literally never end well, and just serves the streisand effect. I can see this getting worse before it gets better.

Because he’s a YA writer who dares to try and portray the experiences of teenaged girls? Because he’s an adult who dares to use social media, which is only for teenagers?

Have you no taste? Deadspin broke the Brett Favre tiny-dick pics story and the Manti Te’o fake girlfriend story!

why are there always more pedophiles?

Um, not for nothing, but both of those dudes are white and identify as such. So, yeah. Cultural Appropriators? Sure. Believes in transracial bullshit? Probably not.

noooo deadspin is okay. they generally seem really nice.

Don’t we generally try to not judge the many because of a few around here?

That's quite a sweeping generalization of Deadspin. They have some great writers there, and some terrific, bright, forward thinking commenters.

I have learned A LOT from this story, to put it mildly, but the thing I find the oddest is that there is a whole community of Dolezal types on Tumblr who now have a poster child. That’s a rabbit hole for another day, for my Dolezal quotient is overflowing RN.

To be fair, the batshit side of Tumblr really isn’t driving this whole “transracial” thing.... At the moment, they’re too busy accusing John Green (he of “The Fault in Our Stars” fame) of being a pedophile to focus on anything else.

Oh sure, all these people are talking about how she was brave for coming out as transracial, but when I came out as otherkin because I am a dragon deep inside me, people called me a furry nutjob. YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, SOCIETY.

So now jurors can’t be a felon, a victim of crime or have an opinion against the death penalty?

1 and 5 women haven’t been raped. 1 and 5 women have received unwanted sexual contact. It is a broad spectrum spanning from unwanted touching/kissing to rape. Since all of those things are bad, it is still a deplorable stat, but being groped or kissed when you don’t want to is better (but still really bad) than being…

Just to be clear, this isn’t about disqualifying people from juries, it’s about giving the defense or the prosecution a chance to “strike” certain jurors who they believe might be biased.

How many men and women rape? How statistically likely is it that a rapist is on a jury (obviously an unconvicted one)?

I’m sure there are victims of crimes on juries all the time. The problem is he didn’t disclose his own rape at a rape trial. The defense is allowed that information during the jury selection process.

Well, to be fair, for some people, fucking themselves in their own asshole is their idea of a good time.

It would not take a lot of spin to make that idea real chic. You could also play up how there are no water traps, which are even worse than sand. So many missed opportunities...

I actually think there’s a course in Dubai or somewhere that is all sand.

I guess I didn’t know that Barbra Streisand was ‘Conservative Enemy #1’. I thought that was Obama or Planned Parenthood or Jane Fonda or something.