I really don't understand all this shaming. Because being in a sorority is so expensive, and there is an image to uphold, some sorority girls are not allowed to let other people (men or women) wear their shirts at all unless it was a philanthropic event where they sold shirts.

anna i am just going to start writing you anonymous bitchy emails about all of your articles.

I have been inspired to create a series called "Ripps."

I believe Ripp when he says "his 'Ho' paintings are a reflection on Smartphone social media being a "new site of aggression and anxiety in the age of the 'virtual male gaze,' where the archetypal macho painter has been emasculated." But that doesn't make it better. By his own admittance he's reducing a person—Ho—into…

I think this is the point I couldn't ever seem to make. Of course it's easy to be sorry for something you did years and years ago. Like, if those dudes went back in time and tried to explain to their younger selves that they would later "feel sorry" about this, I don't even think for a half second the younger selves…

Aren't we all?

Contrarianism. Same reason so many are still pushing anti-marriage equality legislation.

I realize Fidel Castro has done some brutal, horrible shit in his day, but I hope the fucker never dies. Are there more self important, hyperbolic people in the US than Miami based Cuban Americans who are convinced Castro is the number one threat to everything good and decent in the world? Memo: It's not fucking 1962.

That'll fool those la-teen-ohs!

Can I still compare non-genocidal people to Hitler though? Because I had a really mean calculus teacher once in high school and she was TOTALLY like Hitler.

But what else am I going to compare "things that are bad" to? There are literally no options.

Gah, I haven't had time to tune in yet, so these write-ups are helping me keep current. But I still feel like I just need to make the time.

'Innocent until proven guilty' is a standard that exists specifically for and within the judicial system. Yes, it's true that we shouldn't just believe everything we read without question, but that doesn't mean withholding all judgement until a uniquely judicial standard is satisfied is appropriate either.

It almost sounds like you're blaming the US for the deaths of hostages. I don't know if that was your intent but...

With some of the Photoshops, it's unclear if people are simply making light of the situation. In others, it does appear that they are poking fun at ISIS. The concern, obviously, is that people might seem too light-hearted about the lives of these men. Or perhaps, they're using humor to resist being controlled through…

I was pretty much going to say the same thing. No way that the Japanese government is going to hand over $200 million to these people with the hope that both of them would be alive at the payoff. The more ISIS people are pissed because they're made fun of, the better. Fuck all of them.

I think they're handling it properly... yes, two mens lives are at stake, but if you give ISIS 200 million thousands more will be at risk... Sad to say. ISIS just needs to be dealt with.

This. Those men will be killed anyway. Responding to an inevitable tragedy with a giant 'Fuck You' is admirable.

let's be honest here - these hostages probably ARE going to die, and it won't be because of a silly meme. It's because of people trying to use fear as a means of control - the definitive terrorist. Best way to not die? Don't go to the fucking Middle East. Best way to fight terrorism? Don't bow to their control. If…

This is the correct way to handle these numbskulls, bravo on the kids who came up with this.