Well, he didn't reeeeally apologise. It was more like a justification, not far removed from "I've been picked on by too many crazy bitches. Bitches be crazy, amirite?"

That's just like the guy who asked me if I was scared of his "big white man's cock," because I'm an "overly submissive Asian." This was after he said he got "yellow fever" just from looking at me.

Seriously, any dude that uses "libations" (or even worse "m'lady") who is not dressed in period-accurate reproduction clothing needs to be drawn and quartered. The Queen has so ordered.

He's a fiction writer.

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.

Wait, I'm bald...my hair is negative pasta? Anti pasta?

I don't know how anyone could hate on you for this. I'm white, so I have no idea what that experience is like growing up not seeing your image reflected back to you in everything from dolls to women on covers of magazines to stars of Disney Channel t.v. shows. (there are exceptions to all of these obviously but I…

I try to avoid the whole 'as a woman of color...' thing, but damn it, shit like this really bums me out sometimes, really fucking bums me out in a 'I want to curl up behind the couch and not move' kind of way, and I don't know how to deal with it. Most of the time you can ignore stuff like Vanity Fair and treat it as…

Do you think if the artist had painted a bunch of WOC naked it would be called "Classical Art" and hung in a museum?

Did you even read the entire article? You've completely missed the point. The problem isn't that she featured and has a big butt...that's WHY she's featured and is being hailed as some game changer that is doing something no one has done before by having a big butt and showcasing it. JLO has been in those magazines…

The point is the WOC have rarely been praised for being "buxom" or "curvy", instead we've been treated like specimens under the white gaze or like trash for whites to mock and demean.

Buxom specifically refers to having large breasts.