I actually enjoy is zest for life. It seems genuine. Yes, he is a shameless self promoter but I still don’t mind it. He seems happy to be alive and sometimes, that’s just a nice energy to have.

I just find him delightful in general.

I’m really not a baby person but OMG THAT BABY. The cheeks, the suit, the totally over it expression, so adorable

You’re missing a comma in four out of four sentences.

Schadenfreude is taking pleasure in the suffering of others, shade is giving an insult in such an indirect and offhanded fashion as to leave people in doubt as to whether or not the insult was intended or even given at all. How could one throw shade through schadenfreude?

There’s some space between leggings and a three piece suit. I would assume that a male wearing leggings would be declined as well.

Overblown reactions to mis-reported, trivial bullshit like this are the reasons people shit all over my beloved Jezebel. How about we choose our battles?

Asking someone who is getting free/discounted service to dress well is not a bad policy.

If you look at UA’s rules for pass riders (full disclosure: I am a UA pass rider), cargo shorts are permitted (khaki and bermuda shorts are OK for men and women), while lycra/spandex/form fitting leggings are expressly prohibited. So the gate agent didn’t make an arbitrary call to police one and not the other. It’s…

Free passes are owed to people!?!

Yes, but the rule they are literally citing is “shorts are acceptable in coach” and also “spandex is not allowed”. I am 100% sure that UA gate attendants are not materials scientists, so when asked to monitor the rules, they are given discretion.

This was not about sexualizing little girls. This was a poorly handled…

I have to agree. My dad was a pilot, so we grew up flying on non-rev passes. We were required to dress up, which in the early years - even when I was 6 years old - meant wearing church clothes. This was mandatory and there were no exceptions. It was a fair trade for getting to travel the world as a kid, in my opinion.

That United Airlines’s policy forcibly sexualizes children’s bodies is especially reprehensible

It has been reported that the passenger was flying on a pass, and was therefore required to adhere to a more formal dress code.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor: Stand up is a venue for an individual to make a “response” to topical social issues, which then informs the listeners about their particular point of view, which then provides them with a topic, a point of view, and shared experience with others, which fosters what?

The dilemma Dave is discussing, which seems to not be acknowledged in your piece, is that Cosby made Dave (and other black men and women) feel proud of themselves, in a way that the rest of American culture doesn’t. He made people feel like they were better than what they were told they were, that they had value and…

Dave Chappelle doesn’t owe you a perfect take on every issue. He’s not going to be an expert on everything he talks about or addresses. He’s just going to say his piece, like every single stand-up comedian out there. Looking to stand-up for something more than that is naive folly.

You know how lots of comedians are dishonest for a laugh? They say what they think people want to hear because it’s safe and will produce a few well-timed laughs? Insert joke about grocery cart with a wobbly wheel, airline food, the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, whatever low hanging fruit that we’re all eating at the…

I will never forgive Bill Cosby for taking Bill Cosby from me.

Comedy is wrought from tension and subverted expectations. You can’t achieve that by simply saying things that people want to hear. His comments about Cosby show some genuine self-reflection and acknowledgement of how torn he is on seeing one of his heroes fall so far. Artists - comics especially - have no requirement…