Speaking as someone that was just seriously triggered by this article, uhhhh, wasn't the title enough of a warning? I mean, I read it and was like "yup, this is going to trigger me," and then I read it anyways.

Generally speaking, you can tell if an article on Jezebel is going to trigger by the titles; and this one is…

I never said we didn't agree; I was trying to get you to understand how derailing a topic to talk about how not all white people are like that (#notallwhitepeople) is racist and disrespectful. It's not different than when women are talking about cat-calling or harassment, and some jackass dude jumps into to remind us…

No, I never said that this woman is the norm, I said that encountering people like her is the norm for PoC, which it is. That doesn't mean all white people are racist shitbags, it just means that there are enough racist shitbags to make that experience a familiar one, and you're being very dismissively of that…

I'm just worried because we're talking about people that have both a tea party and confederate flag flying in their front yard. I'm afraid of chatting with them face-to-face. I'm also afraid that if talking to them doesn't work out and I need to get the authorities involved, they'll know exactly who made the complaint…

That fucking dog across the street won't stop barking. This happens a couple of times a week now, and I'm so fucking sick of it. It literally barks all night long. There is at least an acre between me and that fucking thing, but I can still hear it loud and clear in my bedroom.

I looked up my county's noise ordinance,…

Geezus, don't be intentionally obtuse. We all know there's a cultural context with which woman read your OKCupid messages; online dating doesn't exist in a vacuum.

While meeting up quickly is a good idea (although I highly suggest people of all genders consider a quick video chat to ensure the person is who they say…

Really? Wow, I guess we're finally in post-racial America where PoC are no longer regular targets for racism, then! Why didn't anyone tell me until now?

I tend to think that creepiness comes from a place of entitlement, but maybe I'm wrong. I'm also maybe (probably) projecting my experiences with creepy men on OKCupid onto these experiments. While I have had a lot of success and met a really great guy on the site, I got so many offensive, derogatory, and obscene…

Are you intentionally being a fucking idiot? I can't tell.

Either way, I'll attempt to break this down for you:
1. We have no reason to believe Brown was stealing anything. You're jumping to bigoted conclusions.
2. Even if he did steal something, in what world does that justify murder? We have fucking due process and…

Wait. Maybe I'm not reading this coherently through my rage, but did they really just try to justify Brown's murder by saying he was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time while black? As if that makes it alright to open fire on an unarmed civilian? The FUCK?

I guess I'm not really explaining my position here accurately; that's not what I'm trying to say. It's not that they messaged the woman, it's that they were too quick to suggest a meet-up, and they did so rather randomly given the context of the conversation. Whether or not it was their intention to come off as if…

No, not at all. I'm saying that men that insist on meeting up out of nowhere seem rather creepy and entitled.

I've had a lot of success on OKCupid, and I met my current boyfriend on the site. Thankfully, he didn't derail our conversation and demand to meet me in person. While I understand that those men probably didn't …

I think you're missing the point of the article you linked in your initial comment. No matter how crazy or unapproachable or border-line illiterate a woman is, she still gets the creepy, entitled messages on an online dating website. No matter how insane, if the guy thinks there's even a remote chance of getting laid,…

Actually, that is the norm. Every PoC has a story just like this one. Every PoC experiences this. That's the norm.

It's a shame a good portion of the self-declared "good ones" are too busy crying #notallwhitepeople and defending themselves as one of the "good ones" instead of actually doing anything of value with their unearned white privilege.

Which post? The one where men are messaging a woman that is acting like a complete lunatic?

In the example posted, the men were messaging someone that was acting like a complete lunatic. That's weird and creepy. That's different than trolling women messaging what appears to be a completely normal person and trying to make honest conversation.

No. We get "all the messages," but almost all of them are creepy as fuck or just say "hey." If we're honestly looking, then we have to be the ones to search out someone and message them, otherwise we never meet anyone worthwhile.

Stop pretending like women have a leg up in the online dating world.

I think the fact that most of the men being trolled in those cases were being entirely creepy, entitled, or otherwise off-putting makes that a little different. These women are just trying to make polite conversation. But nice straw, man!

I don't think that's entirely accurate, for multiple reasons. First, as this article points out, it's incredibly difficult to study pedophiles because pedophiles, even non-offending pedophiles, cannot seek help without the fear of being reported and/or imprisoned. You're completely dismissing the possibility that…