Yes. It does.

New Zealand is an incredible monoculture of hate, Protestant, patriarchal, racist, anti-intellectual...kiwis, the fruit, come from China.

Chelsea Manning attacked female Army specialist Jirleah Showman in a surprise assault. As Bradley Manning, he displayed consistent hostility against women. There are so many hundreds of thousands of women in county jails and state and federal prisons for nonviolent drug offences, shoplifting food, defending themselves…

Please do not dox yourself any further. This story is on many Anglophone websites outside the U.S. Without saying too much more that institution tends not to make decisions even in favour to the tenured faculty. I’d speak to the press, put your story out front, and see if the institution will take some sort of…

I have read the transcript of the speech. No need to convince me of Madonna’s credibility. My issue is with the writer of this feature, who seems not to understand that gossip is about being interested in people, not hating them.

Always an ageist dig, or some kind of crass insult, from this writer. Madonna’s comments were precisely in the contact of her age, in fact. What is she supposed to do, die to please a 24 year old Brooklyn blogger?

PTV is about a million times more talented than Schemer could ever hope to be.

AP style is “chairwoman,” but how dare you fucking utter Amy Pascal’s name.

Or you could just not.

It’s Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl (also Goebbels), if that’s who you mean, and though she was compensated by the Reich for her 1936 Olympia film, she was never part of the government, nor a spokeswoman for Hitler. Not defending her very problematic morals but she was undeniably talented (and not just as a filmmaker),…

I don’t live in the U.S. and have to endure your garbage media.

England isn’t part of Europe. Soon it legally will be gone, and good riddance. Like America, the places that howl the loudest about the refugees – Hungary, Poland – tend not to have any.

No not at all. I don’t live in the U.S. and have to endure your garbage media. In Europe, for no other reason than the Levant is very close by, this story is covered at a granular level. Our city alone welcomed about 6,000 Afghan, Somali, Syrian Flüchtlinge last year...how about where you live? Oh right you elected an…

How do know what I’ve been through? In fact I am, or was, a refugee and am still an immigrant. Trust me the last thing our family thought about when force immigrating was documenting the body count on social media.

It matters. It suggest for one thing that the mother has no faith in the narrative as it stands, and that she has a weird sort of proxy fixation. “Fatemah” should be concerned with the daughter’s welfare, not photographing passing atrocities.

Oh, and a nice side of misogyny too.

I’m with the BBC on this one. Seriously?

I imagine no one will have time for you then, and you’ll be OK with it, when you’re “old,” (like 50!).

I am asking for people not to think that one ‘ism’ makes another OK. We may not be able to experience the travails of the other, or of one another, but it is very likely we will all be “older” (and actually only in Millennialland is 50 ‘old’), and in the terrible world being left to us.

Maybe if you had a little more compassion and a little less ageism...