Well, I think it’s mostly about laziness with an incidental benefit that the ladies are less likely to have to wait in line for the bathroom. I’m laughing that you felt the need to wash-down the grass wherever he peed. That seems disrespectful by Midwestern standards. It’s urine, not a toxic material.

I’m stuck on the mailbox bit. Like, is that even a shameful accusation in his community? Maybe if he were pissing in the mailbox, but “dudes piss outdoors” is a pretty standard thing in flyover country.

a lot of people with relevant experience who also could use a good job

Margot Robbie is the sort of woman who will spend ages 20-35 looking 28 and ages 36-50 looking 35.

I dunno, at this point I feel pretty comfortable asserting that Fitz does not deserve love.

The creepy detail almost has me convinced that is not a publicist plant.

Speaking of voids, 21 people in my city voted for Martin O’Malley today.

I have not seen a general consensus that the commentators think they are the most entertaining

Average time on page is a standard tracking metric available to anyone with a website. (Apparently they can also track scroll down, which would indicate how much if any of the comments the average reader looks at.) I don’t know what “study done by Schwartz” is a reference to.

but the appeal of most of the gawker sites in particular has always been the comment section

Because I’ve listened to people who run websites discuss their metrics. In general, lurkers vastly outnumber posters (this even holds true on message boards that don’t have main page content) and most visitors only stay on the page long enough to read the article. I suppose you could try to argue that all those people…

OMG, you don’t even understand what that stat means. That means they’ve done it at least once. And that includes reading social media.

I don’t know why it’s so hard for people here to understand that people who read the article and rarely read the comments vastly outnumber you bozos who think the site’s greatest value is in the comment section.

As well they shouldn’t. Kara writes a long and entertaining piece about Au Fudge and you want to nit pick over a fucking high chair. That’s a perfectly fine conversation for commenters to have amongst themselves but it’s a fantastically absurd piece of criticism to direct to the author herself. You were like five…

No way this guy is anywhere near gen pop, you’ll have to settle for him enduring the torture of solitary confinement.

When I saw the headline I assumed it was some dad being highly inappropriate in “teaching her a lesson” about sharing nudes, which seemed horrible enough for me to have a strong “Send that man to prison!” response before even reading the story. I did not anticipate all... this. That poor girl.

If I were this girl’s mother I would be seriously tempted to give up years of my life in prison just to brutally murder this man.

If you think you’re making a legitimate argument, why did you start a burner account just to make comments on this particular post? I find it really hard to believe these are your first ever comments on Gawker Media sites. And it’s not like you’re revealing any personal identifying information that you might…

I can’t tell if you posted this exact same reply 13 times or if there’s just some fabulous kinja quirk that sent me 13 notifications of this single reply.

Got it, thanks.