No one is obligated to abide by "innocent until proven guilty" unless they are in a court of law. Those who make up the court of public opinion can come to their own conclusions about what they think of someone's innocence or guilt. Random people in discussion or on a comment board have no real power to affect the…

FWIW, people are pretty militant about saying "alleged victim" when it's a woman. It's kind of a journalistic standard, and from what I recall, Jez usually uses "alleged" when it's not been proven in court.

Yep. Sadly the right info doesn't matter at all to the racists, idiots, and racist idiots, but I can see how it's been unclear.

I just got home and am trying to calibrate how much rage over the situation I can be open about. Mom is a good feminist and generally very liberal but when I said I don't even think I can stand to watch the Darren Wilson interview she asked why not and let a "there are two sides to every story" slip out and now I'm…

12 shots fired in total & according to autopsies, 6 hit Mike Brown. That's why you're seeing both referred to.

Fuck this thing in particular. Yes.

I have gone ALL IN on Taylor Swift and I am extremely bemused with her answer on the bellybutton question. She could have been slut-shamey about it, but instead she went with, "when you start showing your belly button then you're really committing to the midriff thing. I only partially commit to the midriff thing..."…

You can stop reading now, but that was the best I can do to neutralize the language for you in a tl;dr (maybe someone else can do better). To continue, I understand that it sucks to see fictional characters to whom we look up destroyed by damning allegations of their real life counterparts, but I also think that we…

My tl;dr factual version: At least 15 women have come forward with very detailed allegations that Bill Cosby in some way drugged or coerced them into sex. He and his legal representation have in different situations either denied comment or explicitly called the women who have come forward liars.

I say this into the vacuum of the Jezebel comments section as a #forevergray (i.e. knowing I don't matter, but I'd still like to say): While I have found myself having issues with MoGlo's writing at times in the past, I really appreciate the voice she has become at Jez. It's hard to parse these difficult and…

I would like to take this opportunity to show off how adorable my kitteh is.

You can meow at my cat any day.

Not only are vegetables not a regular part of the family's diet, the kids are actively taught that they should be associated with punishment. As the kids say, I can't even.

This comment legit forced me to listen and it was well worth it. Great commenting skills.

Is The Office on Netflix? I could use a marathon re-watch.

I started to giggle at "Jezebel Institute for Tweet Analysis" and lost it with "To stare into the dark void of a Snickers Blizzard and reconsider all of your life choices."

I'm part of the Chicago dance community!!! Who were all also VERY engaged and went out to the polls! Super fascinating. I'm sure there's plenty to unpack here—people in the arts generally have to be attuned to policy that sets funding levels, etc. And we are definitely not in the arts for the money, so looking out for…

FWIW, Illinois has a "no questions asked absentee voting" policy, and Rauner still won the gubernatorial race.

I LOVE the idea of replacing Columbus Day with a federal voting holiday!!!!!

I am really sad. I had three friends over to watch the returns, we had planned on it for a while. Two of whom also remembered sitting in my apartment two years ago, hearing cheers from another apartment a minute before the election was called for Obama on the network we were watching.