Senile for me. I was in fourth grade. I spelled it s-e-n-i-a-l.

I’m a woman and I think that you’re the one missing the point here. Teaching a woman to keep her keys, cell phone, and pepper spray easily accessible actually doesn’t do much to prevent sexual assault, since the majority of sexual assaults (~70%) are committed by someone the victim knows and trusts (RAINN). It also…

Actually now I realize he just said I'm Ready isn't on streaming, which is true. Most of the songs are but they're from his greatest hits album. He does have T.E.V.I.N., Back to the World and Tevin Campbell on there though.

Uh, yes he is; this author dint fact check properly. I’ve been slinging Tevin on Spotify for a minute. Most of his albums are there.

Y’all need to stop slandering millennials...I may not have been in the club when “Can We Talk?” hit but I used to sing it from the back seat of my parents minivan at the top of my lungs :D. And I was the right age when A Goofy Movie came out! Tevin Campbell is the shit.

I don’thate the song, but I don’t like it either. It just exists. It’s not good: it’s pretty bland and basic, and so is her voice. I’m just tired of hearing it on every fucking playlist and radio station 25,000 times a day. There is some serious payola going on from Ella Mai’s people.

Yes, this. I got some younger friends who occasionally ask to borrow $20 for gas or food until payday and I always give it freely. One outright told me she was embarrassed that she had to ask. I was like chile, no. I wish I had has somebody to ask when I was in that place, ‘cause I was definitely there. I’m just…

I was curious so I looked this up and actually, it is. Through much of the early 20th century, Chicago was second in population to New York - and also, in some people's minds, second in terms of cultural attractions as well. A journalist named A.J. Liebling popularized the term.

Even if he didn't think Obama did anything for the black community (which ok sis), why would he think Trump was the choice to do such things? Trump has been OPENLY racist.

This “distraction” or “disruption” thing is such a red herring. I work at a Fortune 500 company that is also very white. I wear crazy braided extension styles all the time. Right now I’m wearing waist-length braids in two bright colors with cornrows on one side of my head. You want to know how a normal conversation…

Home schooling is not always an option. Many families need two income earnerd, meaning both parents have to work and there is no one home to homeschool the child. (I also contend that most parents aren’t properly trained or prepared to school their own children at home, but that’s a whole nother argument.)

Minimum wage, particularly for tipped workers, has not kept.pace with inflation. That's why.

...you're being sarcastic, right?

Bruh, inflation is real. When I was in college you could buy ramen for 10 cents a pack. By the time graduate school had rolled around, it was 30 cents a pack. Now we paying a whole ass dollar for a pack of ramen?

1650? That’s generous. I’d give them early 1500s at the latest.

Building a gaming PC that can play the same things you can play on console is actually usually more expensive than a console. My mid-range gaming PC was nearly $1,000; even my Xbox One X (the upgraded version with 4K graphics) was half that.

Nah, I think you actually need to know how to swim. Some places with open water aren’t lifeguarded, and you might find yourself by accident in a place where you don’t just need to survive for a few minutes/hours until someone finds you but where you need to actually try to get yourself to dry land. And swimming is not…

This is an excellent piece, Cecilia!  Thanks for writing it and for the amount of time it clearly took to put into the investigation.

That doesn’t even make sense. If you go on record in an article slamming your employer, whether you’re right or wrong, other employers won’t want to hire you. This is especially true in the very small and insular games industry. It makes perfect sense that someone speaking up about the sexism at Riot wouldn’t want to…

Even assuming that your perspective is 100% informed and accurate (how do you know the women got promoted because they were attractive?), that’s still shitty and misogynistic - to promote women only because of how they look because you want to have “cute women around.”