The core problem to me is that Merlan doesn’t like this “grifter”, doesn’t feel she’s earned her status and wrote a massively long hit piece about a drunken email.
It’s jealous gossip wrapped up as, what, truth-seeking?

I’m trying to see what she did that’s so horrible, beyond calling someone at work fat and some shitty tweets she’s apologised for.

Everyone fails a purity test at some point.
Constantly purging everyone for some evermore exacting standard of ideological purity seems self-defeating and a waste of energy, badly needed…

Lauren Duca (maybe) got drunk at a work party and did some stupid shit in 2015. It (probably) led to her moving on from HuffPo.  Since then, she’s gone viral and moved up in the world, but “everybody” (the media cliques running around on the east coast) still subtweets about her stupid shit. Jezebel’s tired of the…

Did you just write a 4,500 word story about how a young woman who has become a figurehead for the resistance for other young women once wrote some bitchy anonymous emails when she was 23?

can anyone give a TLDR? I got about a third of the way through before I gave up looking for the thread

She did dumb shit when she was 21 (or 20?!) and has perhaps...grown in the time since? And I know you acknowledge that but it’s a throwaway line in what sort of feels like a needless hitpiece? This isn’t Tucker Carlson being a racist misogynistic manbaby at 40 or whatever.

Goddamn, man. This being Deadspin, I want to make a joke...but I just can’t; nothing about child abuse is humerus.

We are all here for MoHawkeye

Guarantee you that’s right before his whole family gets snapped. 

Also, Nebula is an Avenger. that may be my favorite part

I kinda got the impression that Carol very much has a “Leap before you Look” attitude regarding... well, just about everything. It’s something that’s understandable from someone that’s been told over and over and over again “You can’t do this because you don’t have a penis” and wanting to prove them wrong, to the…

The biggest problem I had with the film was the clash between Carol’s two themes throughout the film.

The movie’s okay. Not great, but okay. Great twist with the Skrulls, Brie and Jackson work very well off each other, but I think we needed to see more sides to Carol than the “stoic soldier” and “quip machine Carol”. 

are you suggesting he just reads what’s on the TelePrompTer Dave?

I think you’re confused. The Stan Lee you see in the Captain Marvel movie is Earth-199999 reading the Earth-199999 version of the Mall Rats script.

The Stan Lee who acted in the Captain Marvel movie is the Stan Lee from Earth-1218 who appeared in the Earth-1218 version of Mall Rats.

No wonder he came in third.

You are there to answer some damn questions.

In a world of microaggressions. Welcome to deadspin. 

It what world would that quote ever be appalling?

I don’t really expect to change minds with this comment, but I do think inability to find compromise within our own party is going to be our downfall. There is a way to think both that 1) Feinstein should advocate harder for the Green New Deal, and 2) that trotting out kids and cameras with the specific intent of…