feels like it’s worth breaking that rule to go against the guy who thinks making fun of gay stereotypes is a-ok to broadcast

As a libertarian conservative who’s been posting on Gizmodo since the very beginning..

If all you do is reference someone’s sexuality every time you criticize their opinion and work and bring it up at every possible moment and always in a negative connotation and with a derisive tone and mockingly lisp whenever you discuss them, you deserve to be called a homophobe.

If you can’t see this, then you are…

“while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies”

The dude is racist scum. If you’re a fan, so are you.

“We take into consideration whether criticism is focused primarily on debating the opinions expressed or is SOLELY malicious.”

Really wish more people understood how stochastic terrorism works.

Careful though. Do that at a Hobby Lobby and they’ll probably make you a floor manager. 

If I can’t get in trouble for saying something IRL, I shouldn’t get banned from a website for saying the same thing.

I agree for the most part, private companies can make their own rules about what they allow on their site as long as it’s not breaking any laws, obviously. If Twitter tomorrow decided to censor the word “banana” I would have zero issue with that. I’d think it’s dumb, but they can do it without any concern from me.

They don’t actually want to debate. It’s all an attention-grabbing ruse that also helps rouse their braindead followers. I like this summary of it:

It’s a rhetorical trick that isn’t nearly as smart as they think it is. Redefining “screaming at and mocking you” as “debate,” just like redefining “insisting that my predetermined conclusion is true and treating all evidence to the contrary in a bad faith manner” as “destroying someone with LOGIC.”

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying it’s a false dichotomy to imply that someone with agency who does shitty things can’t also be a victim. It’s harmful. Shitty people can be abused. That doesn’t absolve them of being shitty or prevent others from holding them accountable.

Yep.

Every day since Trump got elected I see the feminism of this site errode a little. Pretty soon it will be nothing but makeup/sex tips, fashion and weight-loss advice. I’ll have to find new places to hang out.

I may have to start a new blog of my own.

I see her through the lens of my past DV work which included a lot of foreign-born women whose husbands had sought them out specifically with the idea that Asian/Russian/Eastern European women were “real women” unlike the American harpies. You can imagine what those guys were like as husbands. After Marla maybe Donald…

Thank YOU! You articulated what I couldn’t, that there’s this certainty - and with it a sense of superiority - that “it could never happen to me!” But it can! I thought that too and it isolated me more than anything when I needed help.

Omg, I love you so much for sharing this!

My last boyfriend (relationship ended almost 10 years ago) was a asshole who totally did a 180 on me once the relationship honeymoon period was over and I too have a college degree and consider myself a smart and independent woman with agency. I felt so foolish when I…

She should have known better, wearing a sexy outfit at a frat party... I MEAN marrying Donald Trump. Boy is my face red!

Thank you for sharing. It really can happen to anyone. Love and solidarity <3