People who commit or attempt to commit suicide aren't always mentally ill. Who are you to diagnose a stranger on the internet? It hurts people with mental illnesses to armchair diagnose violent criminals as it adds to the stigma around mental illnesses. It's best to just not go there.

Laws that punish women for doing drugs while pregnant actually end up doing more harm than good. Addicts will stop seeking prenatal care at all for fear they will be arrested. We should be encouraging pregnant women to make healthy choices and offering free treatment for pregnant addicts. Making moral judgments is…

That's awful. It's fashionable to hate the English (and there are good reasons, the British empire was often terrible) but right now I'm pleased to have far more English ancestry than Irish.

No. Child support isn't meant to be a punishment to men or a benefit to women. It's there to make sure both parents are providing financially for the child. Once the kid is born, he or she has to fed, housed and clothed and given medical care. That takes money. If the parents aren't doing it, the government has…

Mental illness doesn't cause criminality. Mentally ill people are actually more likely to be the victims of crime than the perpetrators. There's no need to internet diagnose him.

Better hope this isn't cross posted. If it is you'll be inundated with aggrieved bros who will spend hours mansplaining to you about how "bitch" isn't misogynistic.

No this site is filled with people who think anyone who tries to beat someone to death is bad. All decent people believe that trying to murder someone is bad. Whether Mack is a good person or not isn't even relevant because there is no excuse for murdering someone. Whatever one thinks about whether or not acting in…

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Oh well. At least thanks to an Io9 commenter I have a perfect gif to express how I've felt the last week between dudebros and shitty election returns.

No. I comment once in a while but am not an approved blogger there.

To be fair, the worst of it definitely comes from the trolls. But yeah, a lot of commenters there seem to think gender should only be discussed on Jezebel and nowhere else on GM. It's ridiculous.

Nah, it's pretty much always a crapfest when gender is discussed on Gawker. There's a lot of great people but also a lot of brogressives who are good on most issues but seem to have a blind spot when it comes to gender politics. There are also more trolls there since it's the flagship site of GM. Although I find…

Is anyone else really annoyed by the dudebros that infest Gawker? I wrote that "pussy" is a sexist insult and I've been regaled with angry guys for hours now. None of them have made any convincing argument either. It's pretty much just "it's not sexist because I say so."

Seriously. When I was in college I made out a little with an acquaintance who had a girlfriend while we were both drunk. He confessed to his gf the next day and on my small gossipy campus, word got out and I was the villain. Not him.

I vaguely remembered seeing a Tori Spelling movie with this same plot and had to look it up. I was right.

Eww.

Yes. You are way off base. Being autistic doesn't make you a creeper or a predator. I can't imagine my brother ever becoming a PUA. I'm really sick of people doing this. It reinforces negative stereotypes about autistic people and it's often used as a silencing tactic against victims of sexual harassment. Just…

I've seen PUAs describe abuse as "dread game" before. A woman who is broken and afraid is more pliable I guess. *vomits*

Roosh has admitted to raping a woman who was too drunk to consent. Rape is not "game."

Please call the Feminist High Council at 1-800 KILL ALL MEN and press 666 for customer service. Provide your correct contact info and the FHC will be sure to rectify the situation and start making sure you get all the invites.

The total lack of self awareness these dudes have is always stunning.