Yeah, I specifically remembered the 12 year old who got rejected being the first school shooting I noticed. I didn’t realize there were other wannabe-NBK type of shootings before Columbine. Virginia Tech might be more appropriate as the “game changer” with shootings, I’m not sure if the drills were really that…

“It makes it difficult to know how much of the other stuff is BS just meant overwhelm readers with a pile-on.”

Man, people really need to read things for themselves. This statement has reasonable context in the original article. She didn’t present the information randomly, the article was about c-sections, birthing experiences and beliefs, and what it means to have control over your pregnancy. The author directly states that…

This is a pretty ridiculously hostile take for someone who literally has no information. You should probably read the original article the quote is from. Her comment is not some random thing she said, it was in direct response to a conversation she was having with the author about bad birth experiences and the author…

It actually makes sense if you read the article. But nobody here, including Kotaku, will ever do that right? Who cares about context?

The author brought up the question of whether the author herself was meant to give birth because she had such a traumatic first birth and was on her second and was comparing holistic vs…

If you read the article it comes from(which of course nobody does anymore) The article itself is about a woman who had a traumatic experience giving birth in a hospital(she had high blood pressure, they tried to induce labor, they give her a pain drug and she hallucinated from it for many hours, next day the induction…

I’m truly not being disingenuous - and if you take nothing else from this, I would ask you consider that. I obviously have no way to prove this. Nor does Matt. Nor does Bialik really. But just consider what it says if your response to all of us has been to assume the person is a bad-faith actor. I’m not going to…

Its much easier to get your readers riled up when you can make shit up. Outrage media is all publications care about anymore because it drives clicks. It sure seems like there’s been a concerted effort for a little while at Kotaku to print more outrage articles lately, even when there's little to no actual controversy.

Calm down, you've singlehandedly turned a peaceful nuanced thread into a shit throwing contest. You even admitted you got the facts wrong and you are still on the offensive, unbelievable.

You know, for  somebody that likes to call out other people for being crappy, you’re not so great yourself.

The article is indeed at least being disingenuous, if not intentionally so. Bialik never said that babies born from home labor should pass peacefully, as this article suggests.

Taken from the actual article these quotes come from, an article on the holistic birth movement, which Bialik is part of:

She was clearly asked about that belief in a follow up email by the author, she didn’t just offer it up out of the blue. She said she disagreed with it, and her own child was born that way. It’s reasonable to think her response was mushy. But that wasn’t the Kotaku article’s criticism. Instead they attributed to her a…

My view was very clear. I think she sounds like she has bad views. This article also demonstrably lied about what she said. It’s not disgusting to expect journalists to not lie, even about bad people. 

So random kid logic - Growing up outside of the US, seeing the way the Pentagon was portrayed in movies and TV shows in the 80s and 90s, my friends and I were of the hilariously mistaken belief that the Pentagon was hidden away in a secret location.

How about this, everybody is terrible. If we were able to hear everyone’s thoughts, we’d have to cancel everyone.

Context matters.

Whatever she said or wrote was clearly edited for space, and was clearly in response to a question from the author, which was not put in the article. Was she asked “I heard some people believe this dumb thing”? If so, “some believe believe that, but not me” is a perfectly valid answer, and we do not…

At this point I’m afraid that we’ll find out Jennings has a shrine to Hitler in his basement.

About five years later MLB pitcher Cory Lidle lost control of his plane and crashed it into an apartment building along that corridor. Doesn’t take much to push a small plane around.

This was also when you had anthrax being mailed to the Capital, literally a week later.  Buildings were erecting vehicle barriers out front...the entire mood was that anything, anywhere could be next.

I remember thinking something bad was going to happen next. It was like the entire world, or at least the U.S., got a cancer call from the doctor.  Sinking feeling, uncertainty, denial, all that.