I rejected the skinny jean for at least a year into its beginnings and now I'm a pretty exclusive skinny jean wearer. My mom tells me that one day I will wear high waisted pants because Taylor Swift is doing it. Nooooooo.

Wait, Rihanna is totally stealing my look. I had pretty much that exact outfit when I was 14. It was a big hit in the mall parking lot with the greasy high school juniors from whom I was trying to score dirt weed.

the middle east & south asia have been plagued by polio for many decades. if assholes like this even remotely understood how such diseases can wreck your life, they wouldn't be doing this

"Seafood soup!"

Suck it, Ultross.

I actually agree with her statement that people get themselves drunk, BUT I think about it more in the context of men who "get drunk and beat their wives" when really I think they get drunk SO THAT THEY CAN beat their wives. People often drink to excuse their behavior. I have a "friend" who gets drunk and then spews…

"LET ME BE CLEAR: I am a victim of physical and sexual abuse."

YES! I'm pretty much known as a bit of a bitch by everyone I know precisely because I won't let shit like that stand.

no asshole, the reason she knows about this is not because she's trying to 'generate content.' it's because a stranger is making specific threats of violence against her and she feels she is not getting adequate support from the local police. that's the fucking story. it's not even a story unique to gamergate, but it…

Most don't say terrible things, like blatantly misogynist rape-y, pay-you-less-for-work type things. They'll just surprise you one day mid-conversation or in a social media post with some watered-down, socially-accepted sexism. The only men I can think of who don't fall into one of those categories I simply don't know…

The shit he wrote sounds no different than the same casual misogyny one hears every day. That's why I will never trust a man if I hear him say anything sexist. Men can whine about how unfair it is all they want, I make no apologies for being unforgiving if any man shows a red flag.

Just curious, are you a guy? Your feelings on what qualifies as what should make someone afraid reminds me of a not quoted often enough line from Margaret Atwood:

i have a mental illness and have been hospitalized on more than one occasion. i have no ill will towards the mentally ill - just the opposite. but being mentally ill does not give you an excuse to threaten violence (all it can do is inform a reason behind it). that's a behavior that needs to be controlled, so clearly…

Tyce (the guy they beat up) tricked Eli (the guy wanting the Xbox One) into flying to Israel to rescue Tupac Shakur (who they believed was alive and in Gaza at the time) and to assassinate the ex-Prime Minister of Palestine. Tyce was to buy Eli an Xbox One upon successful completion of the mission. Tyce only bought…

But, there's more correlation than causation (I think I used those terms right) that connect the misogynists to those type of games vs other men who can play, enjoy and leave it there. I think that if those misogynist men didn't have the violent games, they'd gravitate to some other means to funnel their disturbing…

Oh, Burt, I loved you as a commenter and I loved you as a writer.

so their big PSA is a reenactment of a viral story about a 911 dispatcher, a story that we do not know the end result of????? the woman involved could still be in danger. But let's go ahead and turn it into a PSA, fuck people's lives!

Good one, random commenter. I love a bit of "well, what about the other side of the story? What if he was really brandishing a scimitar and NOT 'just a book' as he claims and then he actually threatened the waitress with said scimitar while screaming rants about the jews controlling hollywood? She would have been…