Truly, the person who compared this to Larry Nassar’s systematic abuse of girls and women needs to get a hold of themselves. That they thought one very successful woman’s bruised ego was equivalent to the pain caused to tens of women who were sexually assaulted multiple times is incredibly insulting to his victims. 

A Bret Stephens level of fragility is a good place to start.

“Inclusion absolutely matters, in the classroom and outside the classroom, but yelling at a single woman with absolutely no sway in the publishing or academic worlds, is not the way to get it.” 

I was particularly disturbed by Dessen’s tweets about how this one young woman’s opinion was ‘mean and cruel’ and had ruined her day. It seems this 50 year old woman has less emotional maturity than the 15 year old kids she writes about.

The problem with this is the power difference. Bestselling, millionaire authors with large fan bases are attacking an unknown college student and pretending the criticism actually hurts them in any real way. It doesn’t.

Right? Someone has some Google alerts for their name mentions.

how in the world did this writer find out about this article to begin with?

Deadspin usually has sports?

As someone who was once part of a similar insurrection against arrogant, incompetent, and condescending management, I want to applaud all of y’all for today’s showing. I’m sure you’re simultaneously enjoying the fun of mutiny while also understanding the risk. Please also know how much it means to us here in the feebl…

These dogs are most certainly more deserving of human compassion and love than say, Jim Spanfeller (who by the way, if you didn’t know, has an email address: jim@g-omedia.com). That stain deserves to hear why a dog is more noble and deserving of human love and affection than he is.

Can you let me know when you will be returning to sports coverage so I can go back to checking in once or twice per day? I have a lot to do today at work and all of these posts about non-sports topics are distracting because I Must Read Every Single One of Them. Whereas with the sports stuff I really only care if its…

If it’s not on your pull, you probably really should get down there early. I’m looking forward to talking to the owner and manager of my shop today.

Only if it’s a pre-pay system, which basically only mail order comics retailers use any more. More than likely in that case though they’d just give them a credit for another $4 book. But it’s still a valid point.

Also true. lol

He didn't say that. Perhaps if you read his post instead of raging you'd be able to work that out. 

You would be surprised how titles so large as walking dead become defendant on the subscribers though. Alot of stores actually have been running out of single issues pretty early because now a ton of new readers join a title for a random issue when books get so high is issue numbers. So it will actually he hard for…

YYuyuup! You have hit the nail on the head. Finally, some truth and articulation from the point of view of the people grinding away at the actual comic book/toy stores that are always dealing with publishers out giminikng one another, dealing already with the crazy ups and downs of the current scene and it is. I have…

My point isn’t that “some people will be shocked and other people won’t”. It’s that the impact will inevitably be pretty damn minimal, and the greatest benefactors here will be speculators.

Plenty of stories have twists, and some of them are great. But yeah. A stunt driven by marketing rather than the content of the story is absolutely some P.T. Barnum shit.

and it was shitty and stunt driven. the end, I guess?