You’re not doing a poor job. You are articulating a very important point in various ways to various commenters who are all dealing with a boundless outrage—that you are out of bounds for this outrage is why I call it “boundless.” You are displaying sympathy and tact and you are doing it well.

That is the issue, precisely.

I don’t think that’s correct. I think that what parksonian is suggesting is that writing him off as an inhuman monster IS the status quo, and part of the reason these terrible acts (committed by human beings) continue. Maybe it’s the nuance you’re not understanding here, but what Anchoweresque and many others are…

Thank you for your reply. I am certainly not trying to say Nassar is “normal” or “regular”.

By just writing it off as “he’s an inhuman monster,” instead of examining how he got away with it for so long, what factors (other people, lack of oversight, power, whatever) enabled it to continue, and what could have been done to recognize and stop it sooner, we are collectively failing to do whatever is possible to…

I desperately hope we will also soon be watching Michigan State and Team USA admins face the women and girls who they failed to protect. The scale of of the damage they’ve done - and that of the ensuing coverup - is mind boggling. So many failures. So much cowardice. So many young lives needlessly ruined, or at least…

I dont think animals are more important than people, but I still fall into the category you describe.... because......

I’m glad the rabbit lived.

No, when you’re pregnant you don’t start fights! Self defense laws apply to everyone.

Sometimes you gotta let people collect their earnings. Brother realized she had the proper appetite and let her eat all dem sandwiches.

I’m giving her the big pork chop if she comes to mine.

It could have been submitted to Sundance had it been filmed in landscape.

Looked like he was scoring the fight,the whole thing was fucking perfect am I wrong?

Yo, she can come through to the cookout ANY TIME.

That hotel worker stood there like he had a manual counter in his hand and was recording the beatdown stats for posterity’s sake.

Yeah but those rules don’t make for a funny article, which this was. Seriously, go to the cookouts. They are generally pretty chill. It’s not that serious. This article was still funny as fuck though.

Counterpoint to No. 6: Spades may not be played at all, because few black people under 35 know how to play spades. This skews worse for college educated and women.

What’s good, Matt Damon?

Not a bad list, but let’s just say that your bullet points aren’t exclusive to “black barbecues”.

Y'know, I read this article and immediately thought to myself, "If only I could somehow work in an idiotic statement about transgendered people, this would really be complete." Congratulations for pulling off what I could not.