Right? The entire concept of it is just offensive on its face. And particularly as a Jew, it’s not like my people haven’t faced thousands of years of death and discrimination based on stereotypes about our personalities and appearances. It in no way compares in the present day with what the black community is facing,…

Curls.

It’s August 3, 2015, and I am only in my office today for the AC.

Right, that’s exactly my point. Jia has a good number of followers, many of whom I imagine are in media, so maybe it would have gotten picked up, maybe not. But posting is here is basically requesting that the internet hunt this guy down and humiliate him. Before you do that, potentially embarrassing yourself and your…

Right, and thus he has no expectation of privacy when it comes to having his picture taken. The picture is fine. But there is a difference between “having a conversation with a girl at a concert” and “being interviewed by a reporter” in terms of whether or not his comments should appear here underneath his face in the…

No. I’d say unless she identified herself as a member of the media and asked if she could write about it in an article for Jezebel, this is pretty solidly unethical. Twitter, fine, but this isn’t a personal blog, and people have a right to know when they’re being interviewed for a major media outlet.

Oh I thought that was a joke but that...isn’t a joke.

If you worked as the kind of journalist who covered major figures in fashion and entertainment, you’d understand why it’s rare enough to be remarked on.

Naomi and Christy have plenty of lucrative deals going at all time that wouldn’t be happening if they weren’t still so beautiful, and I wouldn’t describe Linda Evangelista or Stephanie Seymour as blissfully ensconced in family life so much as deeply involved in vicious court battles with their billionaire exes, which…

Specifically in the case of high-achieving girls girls like these, rates of suicide by gun are extremely low. Men tend to choose that option far more than women do. I’m as unhappy with American gun policy as you are, but let’s not confuse the issue.

At Nick Denton?

I think you’ve answered your own question. Of course the story doesn’t go AWAY. But personally, I would find the idea that the specific *thing* that had ruined my life continued to exist, where more and more people could find it, earning ad revenue for the people who hurt me absolutely nauseating. Think about the…

Lots of things that are a shame are also true. Sorry to break that to you. Pick up a newspaper sometime and you’ll see what I mean.

They have *entertainment* to offer. What is complicated about this. You don’t have to personally be entertained by it to recognize what it is. See: me and every sporting event that has ever occurred, an entire generation of millenials and the opera, etc., etc.

I mean, you are welcome to *prefer* whatever reality show you like. The numbers indicate, however, that many more people find the Kardashians more interesting than Rev. Run and his equally spoiled children.

Hahaha okay and then explain to me why it is we’re singling out these particular people for making money doing nothing particularly of merit. Why is the ability to put on a costume and say lines someone else wrote or throw a ball really far and then run after it really fast superbly meritorious? Why is it that a small…

I’m not saying it’s a job function. I’m saying that it is one of many things one might point out to contraindicate the extremely tiresome, overused, and never-supported point that the Kardashians do nothing. Or even basically nothing. They work on a television show, from which they have spun off a number of lucrative…

Seriously? What do you do for a living? Literally one of the main differences between “work” and “not work” for the majority of people is that someone other than you mandates a place and time where you have to show up when they tell you. Having to be somewhere, doing something, at a particular time in order to get…

So you’re just suggesting that you totally devalue their work to the degree that you also feel totally cool with devaluing their basic morality and child-rearing skills? For “basically” no reason that you can actually give? Super cool. Bet there’s nothing gendered wrapped up in that. Like, really. They WORK. They got…

But like...it’s not actually “nothing.” That’s what I don’t get. They were given roles on a TV show for which they were paid. They show up on a schedule at a set, they read lines in scenarios that have been scripted for them, they publicize their show, they manage a HUGE social media presence, they build relationships…