This site has done a great job profiling the problem in society with victim-shaming etc and that certain institutions and psychological dynamics make it difficult for victims (read: women) to come forward in situations of sexual and assault and rape. That said, the coverage of this case on Deadspin has made it seem…

I have to wonder how it fucks up the mind of an 18 year old when some “screencapped iPhone note” he writes about some slight he experienced during his college tours will be reported on by major media outlets and picked over on camera by men in suits three times his age.

I’m not trying to start anything, but I would like to point out that this is a comment about the presumed imminent end of a long and storied franchise coming from a person with a Sonic the Hedgehog avatar.

I thought it was pretty strange when I first heard it. Of course Takei is a well-known gay activist, but Trek is also pretty well-known for avoiding LGBT issues (at least in the main series), and Generations confirmed that the character had at least one heterosexual relationship and had a daughter.

Yeah, the dumb gimmicks like Wii motion control. And that stupid rumble gimmick from the N64. That dumb “shoulder buttons” thing that they tacked onto the SNES. The really gimmicky d-pad that they put on the NES controller.

Face it, only time can really suss out the difference between what’s a revolutionary update to a…

It’s very hard to both acknowledge that Clinton’s popularity is mired by sexist attitudes about women in public life, and that there are also other reasons why folks distrust her or dislike her. If you bring up one of these points, people tend to hit you over the head with the other fact, as if they can’t both be…

But it has the Prometheus! And two Defiant class ships plus an Akira class, fighting two warbirds!! My mind exploded when I first saw it!

Good on you for owning up. Many Gawker Media writers do cartwheels to avoid responsibility when they’re wrong, and that’s something that alienates readers like nothing else.