Why should I want to pay tax dollars to improve the lives of people who want to beat me to death for being gay? The way I see it, the suffering these people go through is usually more than deserved.

Anyone who is "proud" of being Southern or Christian should be put in a mental institution.

Go cry to your invisible friend about it.

Uh, it's not the fact that the Duck Dynasty people HAVE BEARDS that makes them worthless subhumans, it's the fact that they're Christian bigots.

I don't know what's worse, your bizarre "what about all the good people who are racist" gambit or your glaring omission of his homophobic comments. I'm guessing from the end of your post that you're another fucking Christian?

The reason people mock Jezebel is because 9 times out of 10, they would have published an article applauding this guy from checking the privilege of gay men, since gay men are men and all men are evil. There's nothing mockworthy in this article, possibly the most sensible thing published on Jezebel in years.

But being "proud of" being from the South or defending "the good rednecks" is just coded apologism for racism and homophobia. That's why people do it.

Why should not anyone be contemptuous of rednecks? It's a word for human garbage. It doesn't apply just because someone is Christian or Southern — only those who are both AND militantly proud of their ignorance AND quick to resort to violence. I'm tired of the "it's just as bad to be intolerant of shitheads" meme.…

But, he...profusely apologized, and is now using his own money to launch discussions of diversity in gaming. Characterizing this as a calculated assault followed by a refusal to change his mind is just dishonest.

You mean the context where he was DEFENDING game made FOR WOMEN as a good and progressive thing, and a bunch of nutjobs jumped on him for assuming a game centered on vaginas had anything to do with "women," then after briefly being confused he apologized to transsexuals and tried to make amends by setting up this…

The commenter is "extremely conflicted." This means that she is so sympathetic to the idea that shorts = patriarchy that she's possibly in agreement that stealing the calendars is OK. Either that or she just wanted to post a super-adult-argument animated GIF.

He said "women have vaginas" in passing while discussing another topic, and people who had already decided that he must be destroyed for stupid reasons decided to gin this up into a "transphobia" controversy because they are stupid, petty people.

There is no rational basis for assuming the comic is "transphobic" because one of the creators said "women have vaginas" in passing while discussing a totally different topic. This is not a sane belief that a real person has, it is tendentious seeking for nonsense to gin up because you already decided to destroy…

The Jezebel/Tumblr people hate Penny Arcade because:

Tell that to all the commenters here whose reaction to any disagreement about anything is to shout "troll" and accuse the poster of being a misogynist.

Yeah it's almost as if two lifelong drug addicts, one of whom had the additional trauma of watching his wife die due to the behavior he enabled, both died of drug overdoses. What are the odds of that thing that happens constantly every day happening!?!?

Find me an example of a celebrity who died from a drug overdose whose parents DIDN'T try to pull the "my beautiful daughter would never use drugs!!!" crap. The reason she was an addict in the first place was because of whatever pisspoor home life they gave her as a kid, it's not a stretch to wonder why they are so…

People love to play the "nobody ever died of drug use" angle because we're apparently in the 70s again.

There's a pretty strong contingent of people on Gawker who think they can fend off the consequences of their own drug abuse by loudly proclaiming that nobody else has ever been harmed by drugs. That's the reason people care about this. Brittany Murphy was a minor celebrity who mostly worked in "geek" projects that…

There is nothing at all weird about a lifelong drug addict dying of a drug interaction/overdose and the cause of death being found to be "multiple drug toxicity" by the county coroner, who really doesn't give a shit about any of the interest groups involved here.