It’s the downside of how they were punished. The problem with trying to punish offenders through a combination of name-and-shame and pressure on their employers/business partners is specifically that there is no particular length of time that’s built into it. It ends as soon as someone is willing to work with them…

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with…

The worst part about working in politics and government as a woman is the explaining I have to do.

Hey, if anyone wants to hear more from Brianna Wu she has a podcast called Rocket that she does with Simone De Rochefort, video producer at Polygon.com, and Christina Warren, Currently Senior cloud developer advocate at microsoft formerly a writer at Gizmodo. The podcast is about happenings in the tech world and…

Consumption of VMA-related digital content nearly doubled from last year, with 141.6 million streams

This doesn’t surprise me. Cycles of abuse are self-perpetuating. I’m surprised more people aren’t pointing out how distressingly similar the details of this assault are to her allegation against Weinstein: the grooming and isolating of the victim, providing alcohol before attacking etc. It’s infuriating to think…

Uggghhhhhhhnnnnfff. This is why I hate it when people say, “Women should be in charge of everything.” Nope. Women can be shitty too.

“It’s not the same thing to accuse a male person in power versus accusing a woman. It’s just not the same thing, because we’ve got a culture and a very long history in which males were dominant and abusing their power.”

This is a good comment, your last sentence in particular. As a Japanese American raised in a Japanese sect of Buddhism, I often side-eye American (read: white) Buddhists for every reason you stated in that last paragraph. Some people are clearly only in it for adulation, which is gross. I feel so awful for their…

Ugh. We know Trump is a racist. Not like he’s trying to hide anything. Is there a tape? Who knows? We don’t need one. All of a sudden, people are going to hear a tape of him using racial slurs and go “Well...I never! This is too much, sir!” Fuck no. His lumpen supporters are all down with it. Have been since the jump.

So when Trump hired a person who’s”qualifications” are basically being a reality show villain, did he think about possible outcomes? Like, when you hire an unqualified shit-stirrer, how could you be surprised when they basically do nothing at work except stir things up? In a villainous manner? And go on another…

I get your point, but...how cool would it be to chow down on chicken and ribs with the Obamas?

Laura Ingraham lives and works in New York City. It must be torture for her.

Hey Laura, fellow white American here. It’s called evolution. Change or die. I hope all of you and your kind don’t change and simply die.

A brief history of Americans (and proto-Americans) bemoaning new waves of immigrants besmirching the demographics of the United States:

Speaking as a white person, I fuckin’ hate how white people are such sniveling crybabies. I’ve never understood how assholes like this think diversity is bad.

Acting like these tweets aren’t eyebrow raising is dumb. She had a great explanation for them, and the Times told the trolls bringing them up to shove it. Why are you angry at the Times? They didn't start it, and any objective reader of those tweets without context would also be like "Hmmm . . . these are weird."

What’s with Jez’s clickbait headlines today? This is the third headline that it utterly belied by the content of the story. The Times (for all it’s many, many, MANY faults) didn’t capitulate to the racist trolls, it literally stood by her .

“According to the lawsuit, Hill (43 yo) was told by a manager he was too young to have back problems, and he was fired before Amazon Human Resources would authorize a doctor visit.”

“What can I do about super-loud kids and their oblivious parents?”