Supporting free speech doesn’t mean supporting all types of speech. That is a dumb, disingenuous framing of the issue. NDAs don’t run counter to the idea of free speech unless you are a free speech absolutist, which Musk doesn’t seem to be.

The hypocrisy is so potent I can almost taste it. 

Exactly. I mean, sitting here looking at this complicated situation and thinking is “Why don’t they just get her out???” is a pretty childish way of looking at this situation. Do they want to US to just rush in an grab her, Raid On Entebbe-style? Give Russia whatever they want to get her back? Are they assuming that…

The whole article smacks of American parochialism.

There wouldn’t be any charges to trump up if she didn’t give them an opportunity to by traveling with illegal substances, so I’m sorry, I still think this is mostly on her. Maybe I see it differently because I travel so often for work and because my family is spread out in different countries, so I’m very aware of…

I know this isn’t Deadspin, but how should the US react if Alexander Ovechkin was arrested?  Put him on a plane home because Russia demands that we send home their really good athlete?

At some point, yeah, it’s on her for having drugs in a place that’s known to be super harsh about it. I’m the stoniest stoner there ever was and I would never take drugs to a place or in a place or from a place like that. 

Ah yes, "demand her release" will certainly fix things. Also, getting upset that the world didn't know about her arrest until now? It's not like I keep tabs on her whereabouts, so people won't know anything until it's reported. And she may be a WNBA legend, but she's far from a household name. If it was Beyonce, it'd…

I feel for her but I don’t think the situation would be much different if Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine. Anyone traveling by air should know better than to bring illegal substances. Even if you’re traveling in the US domestically from one state where it’s legal to another state where it’s legal, technically because…

She’s a habitual domestic abuser and apparently a drug user who’s not smart enough to follow rules. This is the “victim” you’re gonna defend today?  Surely there’s better ones out there.

Your thoughts on surgical intervention being held off til adulthood, and extensive counseling before transitioning sound all too reasonable to me, but I’m not sure it’s still done that way. I know that Children’s Hospital in LA has a gender clinic that performs top surgery on trans boys as young as thirteen, and…

If I had to guess, I’d say there are women in every country. Does that mean you expect Jezebel to write about every escalating crisis in every country?

Russian imperialism is an interesting phrase. Within the span of a single generation, Russia twice had its very existence threatened by belligerence and aggression coming from just beyond its Western borders. You can maybe understand why they were more than a little concerned in the latter half of the twentieth…

Why the heck are you going on about the guy we voted out of office sixteen months ago?

We put missile batteries in every NATO country that borders Russia. You don’t think those should be considered valid security concerns?

“One man’s ego”? Oversimplistic fuckery.

Not that I expect brilliant international relations analysis from Jezebel, but I have to love how for all the complaining about imperialism, this is the most America-centric analysis of Ukraine I have ever seen. There isn’t even a mention of Europe, their over reliance on Russian gas (especially Germany), NATO,…

Let me just clarify what we all know has happened. This liberal white woman in a hetero relationship, while immersing herself in the lives of these mostly queer, mostly BIPOC former athletes...completely lost her sense of identity within them. She started referring to them as “elders” and modeling her life in ways she…

What an odd piece with a lot of ambiguity. Without more info, it sounds like the author married a cishet man knowing they were queer, and presumably with him knowing they were queer, and then the author resented that arrangement for not letting them be “queer” enough despite fully knowing that’s not how queerness…

If we didn’t have a picture of the author I’d honestly wonder if this wasn’t a fake Dear Prudence style submission designed to test the tension Jezebel’s readership would face between recognizing how poorly this reads in terms of how they treated their husband but not wanting to drag a queer person going through a…