It's entirely possible she wasn't aware of how racist her shitty, small town is until she had this child. And now she sees people shunning her daughter, she's realizing first hand how racism affects people (in this case a person she loves) and also that her small town is full of racists. Ideally, we would all see this…

Responding to the other side of this: My foster sister was African American and Native Iroquois. NOT A DAMN IROQUOIS WANTED TO ADOPT HER. NOT ONE.

After the first few paragraphs I thought to myself "It's great she's planning on raising the baby and she has every right to sue the clinic for negligence." Then I read she is suing the clinic not for malpractice but for emotional distress and thought to myself "well that's strange." And then I read the sentence about…

I was recently on a very crowded L train with a friendly man in a Kangol hat and we were standing in front of all these cool tweens on their iPhones. He kept amicably asking them about having smartphones. "Did your parents get those for you?" he wondered. "You're so young! And you have cell phones already!" They…

That's so terrible. This is my point, by the way, every time some guy (generally sexist, but sometimes just clueless) tells me to just yell back or tell men to fuck off when they harass me in the street - you just never know if that guy is the type of guy who will go apeshit. Anyway, I wish this guy a speedy…

The press needs to stop calling this a beating or an attack. It's attempted murder and sexual assault. The woman was forced to watch her friend get beaten, then she got beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted, threatened with further rape, tortured, and the only reason she's alive is because he decided to go look for a…

Somehow this comment actually enrages me even more than rape gifs.

Seriously? You think I have some sort of 'white savior' thing going on? How about I have some sort of 'standing next to fellow human beings when they are being assaulted' thing going on. I'm not into playing the fucking hero - NONE of the writers at Jez need to be rescued. I'm just offering to add my voice to theirs…

yes because only white people are activists.

No, and fuck you. Jezebel should be able to post articles about whatever they damn well please without having to deal with rape gifs and gore porn and whatever the fuck else. Those are being used as a silencing tool, and your comment is no better.

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

How can we support you? What can readers/commenters do to push Gawker Media into action?

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.

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.

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.

Small dogs are hilarious. They meet a creature smaller than they are they just get SO. OMG. EXCITED. My Chihuahua-mix does this same little loopty-loop thing any time she gets to hang out with a new cat-friend.

"White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Backpack" piece needs to be required reading in school to teach people about privilege. Some girls were insistent with me that racism wasn't a thing anymore and all I had to ask them was "what color are band-aids? Can you get one that matches your skin tone?" It was a moment…

Not necessarily. It doesn't seem clear that these black women knew they were going to be discriminated against going in. What if they grew up in an almost all white neighborhood or have extracurricular interests that dovetail more with the interests of the white sorority? I have younger cousins who are more into…