Unless you are playing football, then it’s just called a friendly pat.

I also still absolutely do not believe in the death penalty, but I would absolutely be fine with this woman being locked in a bathroom and fed cans of beans until she was 30 lbs.

I’m not a very easy trigger for the tears and that literally made me choke up.

Oh, if I have to start from scratch, I’m definitely gonna become That Commenter™ who camps out responding to everyone until your annoying presence gets spotted and reaffirmed. Then I’ll ease up on bogarting every convo.

That said, when you make new burners, do you make new identities? Do I proclaim myself the artist formerly known as square? How will you and Jan and BoobpunchedTina and all you other gemstone humans find me?!! I’m having a kinjdentity crisis.

I just think that if I was shadowbanned for any of my comments today, it’s a gross injustice because not a single one of them was even 70% of some of what I see daily.

Yes, what gives? I have been combing my mind trying to think of what I could possibly have done to deserve this demotion, but unless it has somehow become illegal around here to call someone a “dick” when they are being dickish, I can’t think of anything I’ve done wrong.

Holly!

What I especially don’t get is that I GUARANTEE you that most of these same women could tell you what’s wrong with men saying “not all men” as a way to pull attention from the discussion of rampant everyday sexism, and yet they don’t see why this is fucking dumb. Go back to Starbucks.

I will accept this if and only if it means RBG stays on Supreme Court until the end of time immemorial

Lol. Pending approval. Did you seriously dismiss my response to you? Because I’ve changed my mind. My least favorite type of comment is now the type where people leave indirect statements about the kind of comments they can’t stand to read in the comments.

Some people are incapable of leaving a comment here without first injecting hostility, snark, or sarcasm. It seems like the rest of such people’s lives must be very unfulfilling so we will let them have this one...

Yeah. Hidden by title AND entire main page paragraph. To the point that I was looking through Jez articles that mention him for this story and didn’t think to click the one that looked like a movie review before posting this question.

Literally a thousand other comments are about this discussion. Don’t just respond without reading other comments.

So sorry to hear about your mom. I am going through a very different type of mom mourning, in that I finally cut off an abusive mother, and it feels like a loss of a mom. Stay strong! This is one of those times when the only cure really is time. And not so much cure as “salve.”

Yeah, found it by now, but it was still kind of bizarrely buried for the subject matter.

FWIW, here is how a non-dick answered:

I was looking for an article where the harassment would be in the title, as the subject of the article. I read through about 5 that seemed like they might mention it before giving up, then I asked the community if I had missed it, because seemingly it wasn’t there. Then your snarky ass comes along and suggests I’m a…

Hard life. My least favorite type is the kind where trolls leave pictures of decapitated cats and what not, but I guess we all have our priorities.

The gag order could affect things, but I would think that a settlement, while not an outright admission of guilt, legitimizes the claims enough to make them that much more newsworthy.