Agreed. I would say I don't know why Tennis couldn't have just said what you said. But then, I've read his column. He's a man who won't use a $0.10 word when a $2 will do.

I also have a horrid distaste for the singular "them." As a result I use a lot of "oneself" etc.

I think you mean "Uggs"

Agree 100%. When someone purposefully omits that information it turns the whole conversation into an awkward It's Pat sketch.

I'm not the hugest Dan Savage fan in the world, but I love the experiment he did where he changed around genders but otherwise told the same story, giving the same advice, just to show his readers how their reactions and what they deem as "good advice" is completely different if they perceive the letter-writer to be…

It takes way too much to be a young person anymore. I embrace my steady decline into old ladyhood with open arms when I read articles like this.

It's really whimsical and changes all the time.

Is the video upside-down or did I eat the wrong brownies for breakfast?

I don't understand how Magic Mike qualifies at all as the female gaze. The female gaze isn't having some naked men, it would be having naked men doing things the majority of women actually found hot (instead of things men think women think are hot), and having the identity of the default viewer be a woman. But it's…

Channing Tatum looks like the banjo playing kid from Deliverance, grown up and w/a gym membership.

When I was 19 I was a witness in a GBH trial.

I would, frankly, love to see her on the other side of the witness stand. She strikes me as a woman who doesn't take shit from anyone, and I have so much respect.

I'd be in for $100.

Many African Americans think that if we could only make ourselves conform to White American cultural/appearance/speech norms somehow we'd get racist White folks to stop hating us.

Problem - while I can understand that wish (and I've felt it myself at times) that's not really true at all.

To the George Zimmermans of this…

The assumption that she's dumb just kills me. She speaks three languages - Spanish, Creole, AND English. But oh, her English isn't great, and she's a fat WoC - bring out the hairshirt and force her to wear it!

Thank you for this. I'm a woman who has been gaming for over 20 years, and I have never felt truly welcome in Kotaku's comment threads. I'm looking forward to a bit of a change.

I think the change is incredibly important. I'm bisexual and have many gay and transgendered friends who are nervous/scared to post on gaming sites. The verbal abuse they endure when they are open about their sexuality in online gaming communities is "brutal" and ridiculous. I wish more companies and communities were…

To people complaining that these new policies might result in their "jokes" being censored, I have an easy solution: write better ones.