It’s a fair criticism. To put in context, Gawker has published several first person accounts from people in jails and on death row, and those have also been criticized for not including an account from the police or victim’s family in the same way. I don’t think the point of these interviews or essays is for us to…

Damn it! Now I need to look at the greys.

No, because he isn’t white. Many Latinos are, and are 100% European. Like my cousins. Like Pope Francis. Like millions of other Latinos. You’ve seriously never met Latinos who are white? Of course they have white privilege, both in Latin America and here. What the hell does Barack Obama have to do with any of this? In…

Exactly. Nobody’s saying she should go free. Even if she’s guilty, people in prison shouldn’t be tortured by being held in solitary for 20 years and not being given medical treatment.

All my cousins in Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, Uraguay, and Argentina whose grandparents or great-grandparents happened to go South upon crossing the Atlantic. Pope Francis. 95% of the people in Argentina.

the fact that Jezebel thinks this is the case of all cases to promote trans-people’s problems in prison is downright astounding. Even Laverne Cox distanced herself from her own comments once she found out what Blast had done.

Gisele Bundchen, Alexis Bledel, pretty much anyone on Latin American television. There are plenty of black, white, indigenous, asian and multiracial lations. Here read this and educate yourself for God’s sake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_His… .

I feel like “fuck that bitch” and “at bare minimum, mover her to a woman’s prison” contradict each other. You’re saying regardless of how we feel about her she should be treated with human dignity.

White Latinos exist there are literally millions of them. Learn the difference between race and ethnicity.

Do you think it would be just if Blast were raped and stuffed in a suitcase? Because by this logic anything short of that could be considered justified.

She should be in a women prisons.

You have to be the kind of feminist who believes that mistreating trans prisoners doesn’t help victims, women or society as a whole.

Anger is a natural way to react to someone convicted of horrific crimes. That’s why prison reform moves slowly and why human rights violations in prison don’t raise the same outrage as those outside prison. But the worst criminals are still human beings and their treatment reflects on the society that detains them.

But if we give people in prison basic human comforts, it will totally make people commit crimes just to live in prison! Totally. Just ask your racist uncle this Thanksgiving. He’ll tell you all about how having TV’s in prisons means they are living better than he is.

Not ironic in the least. I’m grey on Gawker because of that shitshow, I think I’m okay criticizing doxxing.

Given that Gawker’s bread and butter is doxing people, mostly just to humiliate them, that is an ironic criticism offered here. It is, for sure, a vile practice, and rightfully condemned, but you’d have to shut Gawker Media down to get rid of it.

How we treat the incarcerated reflects on us, not them.

You know how many people have described solitary, especially for extended periods of time as torture. We tolerate solitary for thousands of inmates, many in for non-violent crimes. Even if Synthia is now out of her cell, this remains a real problem. When people say “Well look at what they did,” I don’t know how that…

The fact that anyone still takes Cathy Brennan seriously shows how far we have left to go. This is a person who deliberately doxxes trans* teenagers purely to do them harm.

No one is above mockery, you taking this halloween costume as the world telling you it hates women is so over the top. Anyone is allowed to express their clever, distasteful, and often time hilarious ideas whenever they please and still not be a global representative of misogyny. There is nothing wrong with this…