It's taken me a long time to figure out why I hate being catcalled in almost every scenario but I think it's a combination of factors. For many women, when wanted/unwanted male attention starts, you're pretty young – a pre-teen or teenager. At that age, I didn't understand my own sexuality or really any one elses. I…

It's not a Ray Rice joke, you need to keep up with the news, bud.

I believe it's pronounced Asshole.

He's going to have to suffer the csontequences.

The dude who got hit lost a tooth and broke his jaw in three places, which he had to have wired shut.

Too bad for the victim. If he had just held out a little longer, York had an engagement ring waiting for him.

My girlfriend is made me watch the first episode because she loves the books, and the last 20 minutes of it were actually pretty good, although now I've ruined it for her by asking "why the fuck didn't Murtog just kill that asshole?" The first 40 minutes were basically Edmure Tully's Scottish Holiday, but thankfully…

Who is this person, and why did she steal Cate Blanchett's face?

That woman is pretty fucking amazing. Her account of her own attack shows such intelligence and her incredible escape after such a horrific attack and such injuries makes me think she's literally indomitable.

I hope she's proud of herself.

"Wow. That looks rough. I can't even imagine what she did to provoke that."

Except that it is her profession and she is not ashamed of it at all. Why should we instill that shame on her by saying "Oh we won't mention what you do for a living." If she were a doctor, lawyer, etc. would you say something like that? Do you recognize that telling people they should omit that is basically an…

Seriously. I see absolutely no reason for anyone to even mention what she did for a living because it should have absolutely no bearing on what happened to her.

The press needs to stop calling this a beating or an attack. It's attempted murder and sexual assault. The woman was forced to watch her friend get beaten, then she got beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted, threatened with further rape, tortured, and the only reason she's alive is because he decided to go look for a…

I'm in the middle of this company tech thing, but I want to say this: this is exactly the right thing to do when people aren't paying proper attention to a real problem; it's not something I completely ignored but I obviously didn't give it proper attention, and I'm sorry about that; give me about 24-48 hours to…

At pretty much every blogging job I've ever had, I've been told (by male managers) that it'd be a death sentence to moderate comments and block IP addresses, because it "shuts down discourse" and guts traffic. But no one's ever shown me any actual numbers that support that claim. Does anyone have any? Not that I think…

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

I just want to write dude, not dismiss bloody rape gif trolls every day. It is the worst part of our jobs to hear from commenters that they can't discuss, say, a teen girl being great at Little League without some person boasting a burner account using the collective comment thread as a chance to harass people.

It honestly breaks my heart a little bit that this post even needs to exist — but the manner in which this has been handled (or not handled, really) by HQ is pathetic. Not reporting on it feels hypocritical, so here we are.