Conservative

Is there an opening for a writer at Gawker Media? Because if there is, write to this person and offer them a position, stat. That Craigslist ad is classic snark.

Does it make me a horrible person that I sincerely hope this is true? Now, I wish that no one had gotten hurt or humiliated. There is just a really dark side of me that gets giddy when untouchables suddenly become mortal and worthy of scorn. I'm an awful person... but there you have it.

Ewwwwwww.

I love this series so much I could scream.

I'd hardly say she was forgotten - outside the UK, maybe, but I learnt about Mary Ann Cotton at school when we studied the Victorian era and their views on femininity and motherhood. Amelia Dyer is another famous Victorian woman who ran a boarding house for children whose families couldn't care for them, and killed…

And none of these obnoxious, dramatic hacks have any talent. Kennedy is no poet, either. They are just dysfunctional and think it makes them beautiful and interesting.

"Sensitive" men are usually just hypersensitive to their own feelings and desires.

"I think it's quite a week for the non-discovery that sensitive nerdboys are often H-bomb-scale misogynists who get all horrific-kid-in-a-rape-store as soon as they find success. Because these idiots actually believe that this is how it goes, this is what you're supposed to get. "

I'm not at all surprised. I'd never heard of this guy before, his work looks like absolute shit, but I can see him being the darling of an MFA culture that's terrified of anything requiring actual talent and ambition. Paste together shit you found written on coffee cups, that's a novel.

I think it's quite a week for…

And to top it all off, these heinous little shits can't write.

Who the fuck actually thinks this guy is brilliant? I've always been puzzled by his career. He's a profoundly shitty writer and an obvious creep. Always has been.

Wow, that was basically my overarching research question for my dissertation. The non-400 page answer: they're always symbiotic, but the power dynamics are always in flux, especially when new "players" in the industry (like, say, scandal rags or gossip blogs) come into play. Whenever there's a rupture in that…

Classic Hollywood makes irrational decisions regarding race, ethnicity, and nationality that WE SIMPLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND.

Oh wow I love this question. I think it was, in some ways, the same as today, insofar as studios expected EVERYONE to go to films that were masculine (Westerns, Gangster films, etc.) but marketed melodramas (often called "weepies") to women so they could have their "wet, wasted afternoons" of crying.

Fatty Arbuckle really takes the cake here. He became the fall-man for the entire industry — a symbol for the "clean-up" of the "den of iniquity" — even though he was ACQUITTED. FORCEFULLY. OF ALL CHARGES. But that's not what people wanted to believe, and as I talk about in the book, that interpretation was not one…

So....who was gay?

"so I can recommend the nerds that do start yelling"

I can fix them tho

THE MISANDRY OF MOTHER NATURE REVEALED AT LAST