Thank you so much for letting me be a part of this! It was a lot of fun, and I loved the article!
Better question: Why is Andrea Sorrentino drawing this when she could be on better projects that aren’t Nazi Captain America?
As a fake internet attorney, let me preemptively address the knotty legal arguments from those who would ask “What about his right to free speech?”: Shut the fuck up you fucking idiot
Typical shithead Republican—truth counts for nothing. If lying left and right gets you to sucker dumbasses into believing your effed-up cause, no matter how utterly anti-American the lies are, then so much the better.
This is the same argument for people who argue in favor of management over labor. Theoretically, only a tiny, fraction of a percent of people should be making those arguments, yet, anecdotally, it is an alarmingly large percentage.
This video should be shown to libertarians, followed by “this is what happens when corporations are no longer ‘tied down’ by government.”
To everyone who says this was meaningless, I posted this in the private forum early on:
But since she’s an adult, she rose above the urge to say “Yes, of course I remember who you are— you bitches posted photos of my twat and spent the last 3 years making up reasons to hate me, so yep, you’re on my list, and don’t think I’ma forget your pathetic ass anytime soon” like I would have.
She seemed like she knew exactly who she was talking to and was choosing her words carefully. She said she read Jezebel. It would be impossible to read Jez during those years and not know who Rich was.
I wish it was framed as a conversation about internet bullying. It’s not, tho. Sadly I read this article fully aware that Rich had published these pictures (one of the many, many reasons I side eye him as a Jez writer) and I was flinching all the way through. It reads like, “so I guess you have feelings about that…
We definitely were aware it was wrong in the early 2000s when it was Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton. I don’t believe for a minute that anyone just wasn’t aware that posting pictures of someone’s exposed genitals when they haven’t agreed to having the photo taken or shared is wrong. It doesn’t take an…
That was weird. I also found it strange that the author tries to justify (at least a little bit) posting the invasive photograph in 2012 by saying that we as a culture didn’t wake up to how horrible stuff like this was until 2014. Ummmm, what? No, I’m pretty sure most of us knew well before then that it’s not OK to…
Re-reading this interview with the post-script in mind, do you think it is possible that she did know exactly who you were and that maybe that comes through in her answers? I don’t know. Her responses are really interesting, but (and maybe it is just me) it reads to me like she is slightly hesitant to engage or almost…
“Anne Hathaway was under no obligation to talk to me—in fact, given her feelings about Jezebel, she had good reason not to”
Man, you guys owe this woman a 50-page apology. I don’t know why anybody hates her— someone didn’t like the sincerity level of a speech she gave and that’s why so many years of public abuse and loathing? Or something? But she sounds 10x smarter & more self-aware & more gracious than any writer here, in any event.
Hey, I like this response!
Right. But in the interest of ensuring that nobody is misled, I’ve changed the headline from “The Witcher’s Author Says He Doesn’t Get One Cent From The Games’ Success” to “The Witcher’s Author Says He Screwed Himself Out Of Profiting Off The Games.”
his statement is so weird. Obama was one of the best presidents the US has had in quite a while, while white people did overwhelmingly vote for Trump and he IS trying to ruin everything as quickly as possible. How does he not understand that the same standard IS being applied?
“Discrimination certainly exists but I do believe it goes all ways,” he said. As evidence of this, Jafari pointed to a sketch by Samantha Bee, where she jokingly blames white people for Trump’s election. “I suppose you could guess the reaction if Samantha Bee said black people ruined America for voting overwhelmingly…