As an American living in India, I will say that there are lots of restaurants here that have cheeseburgers on the menu and if you order a cheeseburger, you will get a slab of paneer between two halves of a bun (not every restaurant here, but enough of them).

I’m gonna let you re-read YOUR response.

... “using ‘bacon’ as a word” ...

Did you by any chance mean verb?

—but he also was like “my job is coming home at night.”—

“That was so cruel.”

That’s exactly why it was done.

Police in this country are absolutely no longer worthy of anyone’s respect and should be regarded with suspicion at all times. They are NOT here to help you. Full Stop. They will fuck you over in a second if they think it can either further their careers, sooth their…

Superb write-up. As they tell you in corporate media-relations training, “Don’t screw up on a slow news day.” VW managed to do worse — they screwed up on a day when people are still massively pissed that no witch has as of yet been found at GM, so a VW witch will suffice in the meantime.

Let me start this off by saying I am a huge supporter of cleaning up emissions in general, though not at all costs, but it really shows how fucked up our priorities as a nation are if you get a bigger fine for lying to the feds than for killing people. Again, it is ridiculous that VW did this and it was a terrible…

English is not my first language, and I worked really really hard to learn it, because it isn’t my second or third language either, and I didn’t began to study it in earnest until I realised I was going to be expected to write articles for Anglophone publications. Then, as an adult acquirer, I took it very seriously,…

More like your track record of exhorting other posters to simply dismiss comments they do not like or disagree with, sweet neoliberal reliance on NPR as a news source, “knowledgeable” comments on politics and sports, and use of the word literally, which proved your commanding mastery of one language used on a public…

It’s not gossip. Merlan doubled down on the Rolling Stone UVA story when legitimate news reporters and researchers (so, not MRA truthers), raised questions about the story (and by legitimate I mean the Poynter Institute, CJR, and so on). Merlan insisted long past the point where it was clear that something was…

You’re right. I had a momentary flashback to when I worked as an editor and reporter and, you know, we actually cared that the stuff we printed was correct. I need to hang a Post-It on my monitor that says “Forget it, SapereAvde, it’s Jezebel.”

Wait... fill me in on the Jez gossip... what did Anna do?

You know I thought about it from that angle too. But then I thought about standard headlines and how they reflect the current status of the discussed party and I assumed the headline was inaccurate.

No. Although “charged” is in a past tense construction, this is an active, not transitive verb, so the “bro” part is conveyed as being in the present tense. It is not correct.

You are though. Didn’t you make a vicious insult about someone’s appearance the other day – I believe it was in the gorilla who likes cell phone videos story – and blame it on being a mom?

“Former Indiana University Fraternity Member Charged with Rape/s” or something to that effect. The amount that Gawker Media would pay one copy editor for a year would be less that day’s legal billings, I am quite sure. Further, at most of the news agencies I’ve worked, the copy editors pride themselves on accurate and…

A former Delta Tau Delta brother at Indiana University

You do understand that no one here is for prohibition or criminalization. Just because you aren’t for legalization doesn’t mean you’re for either of those other things. You are stuck in binary mode dude.

The MRAs who are for decriminalization don’t call it decriminalization because what most of them who are at all interested in the subject want is access to something they don’t think exists yet: An industry that would make access to sex more equal, especially for men who can’t get it without paying. That’s what they…

internalized misogyny is a nasty, nasty thing

I’ll never understand how some women can hate other women so much.