Once again, I don't think any of my quotes have been out of context, except in the literal sense that they are pulled from longer paragraphs. The surrounding text in no way changes the slant of the sentence itself.

That's a super ignorant thing to say. My mom has one too, and she was born in the late '50s in rural Missouri. It's true that most younger people born in the US don't have them, but "third world citizens?" What a gross thing to say—on several levels. I actually find it to be an interesting visual marker of who's…

Excuse me, but restitution for WHAT? The ad money they weren't going to be getting anyway because there was a PERFORMANCE going on? I feel like I have to be missing something....

And this is why I started writing and why I keep doing it.

I came to this site via Gawker and Deadpsin a long time ago, like a lot of people do. And in the beginning, a lot of Jezebel articles bugged me. I felt like every single one was complaining, making a big deal out of one thing or another that wasn't really (too me...). But I kept reading, every day. (Thanks, art…

No, no good reason, but it is phrased this way because (as several commenters have pointed out) there are many gendered single person restrooms in existence.

I agree and can see my grandparents in the organizers. I was taught being Irish Catholic (in the U.S.) means no one can have sex for any reason other than procreation. My mother makes comments such as "living in sin" and "the marriage has already been consummated so what are we celebrating for?" To her, that's a big…

I agree. I think Irish Americans believe they are a group unto themselves. The parade represents them and their triumph over the struggle they faced when their families came to the US. They should really just let all Irish Americans, including the LGBT community, be part of that celebration. Considering that the Irish…

Calling mutilation circumcision is gross, misogynistic and culturally relativist bullshit excusing inexcusable abuse. There is no empowerment to be found in sugar-coating euphemisms. Period. So in short: GO FUCK YOURSELF.

What gets people's backs up in Ireland about this is that many of the people of "Irish descent", claim to be Irish (without the descent part) despite having very little cultural connection with the place aside from a grandmother somewhere. This annoys us because we then see people like the organizers of the New York…

As others have noted, the headline is fallacious. She didn't say that criticism of Allen is 'irresponsible', she said sprinkling the names of uninvolved celebrities into the letter was irresponsible.

I suppose the "Google Alerts" part might be about the possibility that a person would get an alert about Scarlett…

"Except by working with him, she's taking his side"

If the victim is trying to drag her into a legal and social battle that she has no legitimate ties to, she is well within her right to call the action out as "irresponsible". She is trying to stay out of it, and was pulled right in. Saying "fuck her" for calling out someone (anyone) for a high school-esque,…

Seems to me like she is trying to stay out of it with these comments. How should she have any special insight into whether the accusations are true or not? There are only two people who know what happened that day (neither of whom is Scarlett) and they each have a different story.

I have to say, I'd be rather taken aback if my name was tossed into an open letter written by someone I didn't know about her molestation. Johansson worked with Allen. It's not fair to expect that she is now required to weigh in with serious opinions on a 25 year old accusation just because she acted in his movie. I…

Or the people hijacking the thread to discuss male circumcision.

Cue the cultural relativists showing up swinging out of the woodwork. :)