Yeah, I get it, I was just criticizing slacktivism and political comment as a sort of group therapy. Jezebel is a slacktivism headquarters.

I don't think white-owned media outlets have to be the voice of all races as a default. If someone wants to cater just to white people, or affluent white people, that's their prerogative, the same way something like Essence can cater to a black audience (you can make a separate argument about the business logic of a…

Fair enough. My joke sensor can sometimes get broken on the Internet because I run into people who might sincerely espouse the position that Iran has a better overall human rights record than the US.

Okay, I'll agree with you there. But I think it's more a historic accident that the things that allowed them to be dicks on an industrial scale developed in Europe first.

If I (whitey) get a job at Essence and pitch articles about white people doing whatever, and they shoot them down, that doesn't mean they're discriminating against me.

Dude, People is not an organ of a social justice oriented political party. It's a magazine aimed at trashy white people, the way Vanity Fair is a magazine aimed at supposedly erudite white people. It has no more responsibility to present the universe of human experience than Jet, Essence or the Final Call.

Not really. "People" can be "Essence" for white people if it wants to.

In fairness, those countries would hate on the US regardless of the actual facts. Iran, meanwhile, hangs people from cranes in town squares and China harvests the organs of executed political prisoners.

Ironically this is a bit of a white supremacist opinion since it supposes that white people are the best at ruthlessness / colonialism / conquest. I don't think actual history bears out that position — Western dominance as we think of it now is only a few hundred years old.

Does preaching to the choir at Jezebel make you feel like you've helped out somehow? None of the white people who think Ferguson response is okay are actually participating in this echo chamber.

Could you explain why it's still kosher to make fun of men with small penises and link them to insecurity and other negative traits? Men don't choose their penis size anymore than women choose their breast size.

You're not a non-conformist. You're just conforming to a less mainstream stereotype.

Old boyfriend.

Maybe he was sick of being your pro bono shrink.

Why do they dress up a 1/3 train as a D train (which in real life is a significantly wider vehicle)? Why not use a real D train or call the train a 1 train?

GRAs (guns rights activists) are going to be all over the Times for calling automatic rifles machine guns. I'm surprised no one in that newsroom has played a first-person shooter in the last ten years and learned the lingo.

The new one is pretty bad ass looking, though. You can see it from about 30 miles away.

What's the actual difference? Male homosexuality was thought to be a disorder linked to narcissism until recently, but that thinking has been dropped.

A socially undesirable sexual orientation that the subject has no control over? Seems like they are in the same category. Unless you think that gays are born that way but pedophiles choose to lust after children for the lulz.

Thanks for the caps.