This is where you’ve gone awry:

You can’t be serious about mourning Natasha Vargas-Cooper...do you honestly endorse her disgusting, misogynist post about Amy Pascal’s Amazon list purchases from the Sony email leak? Here’s the link: http://jezebel.com/this-is-amazin…

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I’m pretty good at Twitter...but I don’t want to post my user I.D. here. How ‘bout you post yours and we can follow you? Because I’m about to depart Gawker Media too. It’s time.

Exactly this. Really poor form for the platform that wants to be taken seriously and pontificate about everything from “appropriated” hairstyles to Sabrina Erdely. Not surprising though.

Thank you for pointing that Guardian commentary out, I had not seen it. Yes we will fight on!

I agree she probably will, and I hope we have the fortitude to do the same. I see her from time to time just out and about and you can tell the strain of dealing with these morons, compounded by the heartbreak of the last election, the TPPA, the non-stop All Blacks/royals visit celebrations, etc. are wearing her (and…

Well, people in Scotland and of Scottish descent (i.e. the Kiwis) love to write about themselves so I am sure there is no shortage of literature on the subject. At least there’s a decent train system there, although you will fine (as in the Pennines lines in the north of England) they and the bus systems are…

Just at the OP suggested there would be...NZ apologists. And actually the police soon will have carte blanche access to weapons; there are “tactical” squads now to get around the appearance of an armed force, but in fact it exists.

I’m wondering how much longer Metiria Turei is going to able to hang in there. She has not looked well lately and you can tell she’s getting too fed up to continue...

You won’t get that from me. I’m here on a research fellowship and literally counting the seconds until I can get away from this patriarchal Protestant colonial white supremacist xenophobic monoculture. I’ve had extended research tours in Gabon, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Northern Ireland and even Macon, Georgia and this is…

Did you read the complaint, about the longevity of the careers of pop musicians? Whether or not she “needs” the money now (which as you’ve clearly stated in your opinion she does not) is not relevant to the complaint. The complaint addresses her future earning potential, which is being impinged upon by her inability…

In fact you’re not “kinda” dismissive you are wholly doing that, and unsympathetic as well. Don’t get me wrong, I’d be mad too if I had to pay back student loans to an institution that hadn’t taught me how to use apostrophes properly too.

“I’m poor so it’s OK if someone else who is not poor gets sexually assaulted and then blackmailed!”

Because the other women associated with his creative venture, who are very powerful, wealthy, and not shy about speaking to the media about potentially controversial issues – I’m thinking particularly of Pink – have never spoken an ill word about him? Because as you point out the story is of recent vintage and has not…

I’m sorry, but these aren’t typos, they are examples of egregious laziness and lack of care for the readership, of which the commentariat is comprised. A quick self-conducted proofread would have caught them (as well as the nonsensical description of “a column [in or on] NPR.” JES isn’t reporting from a rebel outpost…

After all, she maintained an music column in NPR for three years.

I don’t believe in a singular divine deity anymore mostly because if one existed h/she would’ve stepped in to stop us from harming the animals anymore, but if there were one h/she surely would’ve hit the red button after the back to back to back bear hunt/elephant poisoning/badger cull headlines from the past weekend.

It is not the same concept, as I explained above. The motivation is entirely different, which frames the story differently. The concept in is that teenagers are out of control and are already a threat to the government; the group of ninth graders is sent to the island to make an example of what can happen if such…

I see your points...I think one of the major differences in MacGuffins is that in Battle Royale, the government puts the class of teens on the island to make an example of them; i.e. in reaction to a youth population that is already in a state of rebellion against the government...but yes I see the similarities you…