Thank you! I don’t even like Cortez much but I totally agree that the “well, actually...” followed by demonizing him when the body is barely cold is in bad taste. I know people have trouble hearing all of McCain’s good qualities lauded, but he was a mixed bag on both a personal and professional level. The fact that…

Politics is bad, twitter is poison, put them together and you see the worst of people. Progressive, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, doesn’t matter people are blinded by politics and twitters anonymity brings out the worse in them. Thank you for being a sane and decent person.

Yay, I found a sane person!

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with…

In the age of Trump, it’s doubtful. What has me astounded are all the Trumpers out there who are actually celebrating that he’s dead. I can’t even wrap my brain around how fucking sick you have to be to take that stance.

As opposed to knowing a world of, what, traditional celebrities? I’m not sure what it is about youtubers that makes people get so snobby. Following youtubers is no better or worse than following Jennifer Aniston’s dating life. I don’t like most youtubers either, but that doesn’t make me morally or intellectually…

This is the result of for profit education. Anything that threatens that profit is buried. After every story (Penn State, Ohio, Catholisim, every sport ever it seems) we ask how does this keep happening?!? Predators ingrain themselves and use the greed of the organizations to shield them as those profiting would…

I’m so sorry you experienced this.

I’m not normalizing any such thing. You know absolutely nothing about my child, and I can’t imagine who you think you are to tell another person to “do better.” Get out of here with your nonsense. 

A Giraffe foot mount? Seriously? If I went into someone’s house and saw one of those I would not think “this is someone who I’d like to be friends with”. You have to be special kind of horrible to say “look at this body part of a once beautiful animal that I purchased”. Trophy hunters are oxygen thieves and statistics…

It’s not my community, but the Internet is filled with lots of groups of people with very niche interests and I think that’s generally a good thing. I am not into this particular interest, but I wouldn’t say that’s because of my age and I’d be very cautious about trying to portray it as a sign of cultural superiority…

If you went back 10 years into my FB (I have a twitter but if you’re on twinja you know I never tweet anything) you would find a lot of embarrassing stuff...and yet, a conspicuous absence of the n word.  How was I able to do it as a wee college babe in the woods?!

EXACTLY. I was younger and ignorant years ago but managed to not say the n-word. Funny how that works.

I’m in my 30s, and I know who all of these people are. I don’t wear makeup on a regular basis, but I watch makeup tutorials on YouTube and I am familiar with all of the characters in this story. I don’t watch Logan Paul or Jenna Marbles, but I also know who they are. Celebrities aren’t just movie stars…

They’re not sorry that students were abused, they’re sorry they were caught.

I attended Catholic (non-boarding) schools from 1975-87. I am proud to say that male teachers caught making moves on students were outed, fired and, when possible, prosecuted. Even beloved ones.

The thing is, even then, it was illegal. So people understood on some level it was was wrong, but the law was very selectively enforced.

I’m 27 and I had never heard of any of these people and now I’m kinda wishing I still didn’t

As a survivor of the english boarding school system from 77 to 84 I can assure people that this is not an isolated incident, i would venture that 100% of institutions like this the world over have similar stories at least 100% of boys only and co-ed, not sure about all girls schools such as covent schools.

OMFG, this is horrific? I cannot fathom how this is reported, investigated, confirmed and then ignored for decades. What is wrong with us, as a society, when we’d rather ignore sexual abuse and pedophiles, than face the court of public opinion by standing up and proctoring those who would be preyed upon?