No worries, I'm all about the "discourse" part of the platform! Go forth, be thoughtful!

I really think that's been Denton's plan with Kinja, it just got stuck somewhere along the way. So maybe this would be enough?

I know its a little off topic, but I am reeling today. Last night, my boyfriend told me he is no longer attracted to me since I have gained 10 lbs since we started dating 2 years ago. He said it extremely cruelly as well. This happened out of the blue after a nice dinner and wine. I absolutely agree that I have gained…

Lock your kids inside the house so they can sit on their asses and get diabeetus.

I don't doubt it. Except maybe Rebecca, because that's just the vodka and her personal spiritual guide talking. ;)

Jessica, please consider this a request for an official Evening of Squee across all kinja platforms when this is over. With Denton's blessing, you get to scour the internet looking for nothing but things that are deliciously weird, delightfully heartwarming or just flat out fun.

Jessica, I am so proud of you for standing up for your site, your authors and your commenting community.

yay! i'll happily go back to being ignored in the greys if it means no more terrible gifs everywhere :D

Credibility with whom? The people who mock shit like this are not the type of people who matter. 4Chan & Redditors can mock it all they want. No one cares.

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Yes, but there are very specific ways that Jez posters are treated because we are assumed to be women. I'm assuming rape gifs are basically never posted on those other sites. One Jez author posted a great article about how common it is for women to be threatened with rape as a way of knocking them down a peg, which is…

You're an idiot.

No, we don't need to go back to the old system, but what about requiring the account to have some degree of history before inline image posting is allowed?

Obviously an email account, IP or name can never be tied to a burner account, trying to associate an IP would also be useless and probably counter-productive because in all likelihood many of the posters are using Tor, and banning those exit node IPs would also ban other Tor users, man of whom are your most valuable…

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

Holy volatility though.

"An exam is only intrusive if you routinely get penetrated sexually in the examined area... and are a woman."

Three words for you on why christians want to prevent gays from adopting.

Because we all know that straight people only raise straight children. I mean I can see their point. Gay couples would raise Gay kids. It's all about the environment and being Gay is a choice. Amirite?