To be fair, Depp speaks passable French. He was (after all) shacked up with a Frenchwoman IN France for a number of years and been in some French film. I realize that a Continental French accent and French-speaking Quebecois accent are not exactly the same, but still.
It's interesting that you don't mention Canada in this discussion. Canadian parents are by law entitled to a year of leave, both the child-bearing women and the partner, with unemployment benefits. So the mother can take the full year or perhaps 8 months and the partner can take the balance. It is a great system. And…
At pretty much every blogging job I've ever had, I've been told (by male managers) that it'd be a death sentence to moderate comments and block IP addresses, because it "shuts down discourse" and guts traffic. But no one's ever shown me any actual numbers that support that claim. Does anyone have any? Not that I think…
Why would I expect too see that?
Someone on GT actually just wrote something that may help with that. I haven't tried it yet but it's worth a shot.
Cosigned. Hell, I like promoting good comments, dismissing outright nonsense, trading stories with commenters, even the occasional infuriating flamewar adds a little spice to the blogging routine. But it's just disheartening when we have to drop everything—the writing, the searching for new stories, the workaday Kinja…
Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…
I just want to write dude, not dismiss bloody rape gif trolls every day. It is the worst part of our jobs to hear from commenters that they can't discuss, say, a teen girl being great at Little League without some person boasting a burner account using the collective comment thread as a chance to harass people.
Working at Gawker Media is a dream job for many of the women on staff here at Jezebel. This is a place that takes…
It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.
For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…
What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write…
The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.
Big deal. Bottled water companies have been running this exact scam on all of us for decades.
Why Is There Poop on My Thong?
I bet John Travolta would KILL for that head of hair.
