Because in stories like these a writer on Jezebel here has to write the “side with the woman at all costs even when proven wrong” story.

And Hope Solo was a drunk 33 year old woman who also happens to be a professional athlete who slammed her 17 year newphew’s head on the ground & punched her half sister when she tried to restrain her. Solo also had to be restrained in jail that night. Those details are facts in the case. Remember she was the drunk…

This is Jezebel, that's not the narrative here. And I love reading Jezebel, but clearly everyone here agrees with her punishment.

Okay, wait! The single-stall bathrooms in a lot of places are locked, and you have to get a key or a code from staff. This is super common in downtown areas with a lot of homeless individuals (ostensibly they are trying to keep them from using the restroom and limiting it to customers). Sometimes the key requirement…

I like this excuse from MLS fans because it perpetually ignores the mediocre performances from MLS teams in the group stages when they are in “mid-season form” and some Central American and Caribbean leagues haven’t even started their season. Just last week Sporting KC drew 2-2 to Central, a Trinidadian team that…

The game isn’t lacking in entertainment, viewers, or revenue. There is zero need to change the game, including the offsides rule.

While posting blackface is never a good start, in this case he was satirizing appropriation. I would have thought that would be a legitimate use of that image.

I don’t think you’re a feminazi bitch, and I’m sorry to hear that you experienced a sexual assault. I read the transcripts from this case and it seems pretty clear that Nate Parker knew that he and his friend had raped her, hence the lying about what had happened when she called to try to get the name of the other…

I think you have to dial back your opinion of people who fear being accused, ESPECIALLY when discussing the Nate Parker case. Lest we forget, Black men have a LONG and troubled history of being falsely accused of rape in this country, usually as a pretext for violence against them, and it’s a reasonable fear to hold.

Unless you are Hulk Hogan. I am not aiming that at you, but the hypocrisy on this site of yesterday’s article where they were defending their actions in posting a private sex tape vs. this article today is kind of crazy. You are absolutely right. Everyone deserves privacy.

He was discussing a need for more people of color or black actors/actresses in UK dramas and bemoaning that the rise of the Period Piece was whitewashing British entertainment media though, right? In the context I think he just made a Blunderberg Mumblesnatch.

Rio is a damn 3rd world nation

Well, that’s it. To all the assholes badmouthing Brazil about venues collapsing left and right, a zika epidemy, ever athlete being kidnapped and murdered, everybody dying from the water and other bullshit, eat your hearts out! The only relevant incident happened in the imagination of Ryan Lochte.

I think the same thing, with genders reversed

Yeah, an 11 year old is a child. If they get pornography that’s a bad thing, because the product intended for adults; same can be said of booze, pot, cars, or any other vice we acknowledge are meant to be enjoyed exclusively by adults. Children aren’t “raised on porn,” in healthy environments and measures should be…

And even here, people in the comments were pissed that Brazil dared question the stories of 3 American Olympic athletes, and confiscated their passports! They kept insisting it only made Brazil look bad, and petty.

White dudes getting into drunken fights, then making up a giant lie to cover up any trouble they may get into and then expecting everyone to be cool when the lie comes out? I’d say this is pretty damn representative of the US.

Of course she can call herself a feminist. Her work, especially her recent work, is overtly feminist.

Nobody’s obligated NOT to associate with an asshole either, and you have no idea what Amy is saying, or not saying, to this guy in private. She has no obligation whatsoever to excoriate this guy in public just because a few people she’s never met on social media tell her she has to. “Give us Barabas” and all that.

I agree with you and I’m basing it on the comments yesterday that had hordes of people insisting that lochte was in the clear. (While shitting on the lone Brazilian commenter who claimed the police were on the right track and not just looking for some kind of hand out.)