hey gawker dudes. what the fuck is wrong with you?

Hunter Thompson was a literal catalog model

i just realized i'm wearing a t shirt, baggy basketball shorts, sweat socks to midcalf and shower shoes.

wonder if this guy constantly being on drugs had anything to do w poor decision making

vicious circle iirc

hi what is "the root"?

is it like a really straighforward dumbed-down clickbaity news w/ no snark or real insight? bcz an article like this would def make it seem so

http://www.theroot.com/republicans-are-playing-a-game-of-jenga-with-health-car-1791134309

Hey now. (My friend Danielle's worked there for some time.)

xp i'll bet you can figure it out

ok nvm I didn't realize this was already a thing, plz disregard!

The Root has been around for like 6 or 7 years, I think. It started as a Slate's black sub-site and then broke off at some point.

so it was slate -> independent -> snatched up by univision -> integrated w/ex-gawker properties?

pretty much, except it was owned by Slate's parent company until the Univision sale. Slate itself was sold off at an earlier point.

hey here's a real TERF piece of shit article from former jezebel writer natasha vargas-cooper

https://t.co/WBdCWa387z

terfin' u.s.a.

Takes her a little bit to get rolling to the insane shit - as someone far removed from college campuses, things like cancelling The Vagina Monologues does seem counter-productive in general... and then she starts in on "mutilation."

some wikipedia ed removed the 'gawker media' footer from a bunch of peoples' pages today

Great to read about feminism from the author of http://jezebel.com/this-is-amazing-amy-pascals-cheap-crotch-intensive-bea-1698863025

it really is hilarious that her whole piece hinges on caring whether some college kids get to see the vaginas monologues

the same group also barred a number of other plays for racist or homophobic content, the vagina monologues thing got latched onto by conservative press and the playwright's open letter thing helped it gain more ground.

a group on campus actually did do the vagina monologues in the end.

again, I... don't care

yeah it literally is the least important thing ever, sorry for mentioning.

millennial terfs are confusing to me. like i get if you're germaine greer or whatever you've been railing against trans women for decades and feel like you're this wonderful person on the side of oppressed womanhood and don't want to realize that you're actually an arsehole. but how do millennials get into this shit?

I started rolling my eyes super hard when I read the word "blacklist"

like, cancelling plans to do a show one time is... not blacklisting it

did they bury copies of the vagina monologues in a pit under the library

I got to the inevitable Dolezal comparison and figured life's too short.

xp jim, vargas cooper might just be trying to break in to the large, lucrative right wing media market, which currently has a demand for people who can write with some knowledge on the goings-on of campus activists.

maybe that's shitty of me to say, but i do feel like there are opportunities there for ex-gawker people.

There are essential elements to being a woman; they are few, but they are profound, and they shape the way we interact with the world. To erase or deny that reality because it doesn’t include biological men is an insult to women.

Penny goes on to say that “feminism’s focus on women can be alienating to queer people and anyone questioning the gender binary.”

What else should feminism focus on if not women?

oh my god this bitch is crazy lol. crazy af.

xp quite likely, probably written to provoke a pissed-off reaction and charges that the trans community 'silences' anyone who dares question their orthodoxy, even a Jezebel writer. Of course, given her connections with Jezebel, she could easily have contacted plenty of trans activists if she wanted to write a critical but balanced piece about where trans activism fits in with and deviates from the traditional feminist movement. But that's not what she wanted to do.

regardless of your employment status this whole take is complete garbage

natasha vargas-cooper was always terrible

millennial terfs are confusing to me. like i get if you're germaine greer or whatever you've been railing against trans women for decades and feel like you're this wonderful person on the side of oppressed womanhood and don't want to realize that you're actually an arsehole. but how do millennials get into this shit?

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:54 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're treating it like an ideology people stumble across and buy into rather than a weak, vulnerable justification for hate, and hate is eternal my dude

like i've spent time thinking about that too, it's like the only remnant of second-wave feminism that has this ardent following (and anti-sex work which, same thing)

spend enough time in their communities and you realize it's just plain hate, same as any right-winger

was so tempted to go off on a ranting tangent on facebook but held back, since every reference to the article was completely negative already

when groups who are a minority or feel subject to oppression make their needs known and institutions and society are reconfiguring boundaries to find a new norm, there will be moments that are questionable -- maybe someone well-meaning did something that wasn't actually helpful, maybe someone in the group had an ideal that needed adjustment in practice. a feedback loop and open communication is good

but this garbage article didn't speak to that at all. it's just a complete refutation of change to the perceived status quo. there are a bunch of implications that the gains made by second wave feminists will somehow be lost with no evidence

"an all-women college is having to have serious discussions" is the most bullshit thing. institutions, especially colleges, have serious discussions about how to best serve students and what accommodations are reasonable all the time. if they didn't, they'd be shitty colleges!

ok that's my rant from a straight white dude, feel free to scroll past, thanks

like i've spent time thinking about that too, it's like the only remnant of second-wave feminism that has this ardent following (and anti-sex work which, same thing)

spend enough time in their communities and you realize it's just plain hate, same as any right-winger

― qualx, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:25 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm lucky in that i haven't encountered anyone like this irl (my social group via my wife swings heavily feminist and lesbian and is totally anti-terf). although having said that i just found out that a new women's library opened up in this city and that it's for "women born as women" or some such slogan :|

run by millennials as well if I'm getting it right

we also have a rape relief non-profit that doesn't serve trans women here too now that i think of it :/

kind of strikes me that there are... reasons.. these weird hostile articles seem specifically about trans women and not trans men although they make blanket statements about trans people

A friend is in the clutches of a TERFy message board full of really pissed-off women whose partners are somewhere in the transition process. It's... not edifying.

how are they both TERFs and in relationships with people who are transitioning?!?

Some people won't listen to sense.

Sorry, that's not funny.

xxp: Hence why they are pissed off.

Well, assuming that question is not rhetorical and without getting too person-specific, many of the women posting were decades into marriages with male partners who were referred to gender clinics/became gender-dysphoric/started transitioning. They are heartbroken and lashing out and as part of that, there's a lot of 'they're not women' talk.

I feel like there are people who go down a lefty/feminist road, come across terf theory and have this invigorating "wait, so I can be a feminist *and* a bigot?" moment. Plus, y'know, more money in hate than in journalism nowadays.

TBH I haven't read it because I'm like two months out of the closet and I don't fkn need that shit right now.

TBH I haven't read it because I'm like two months out of the closet and I don't fkn need that shit right now.

yeah i would definitely not recommend reading it, i've rarely been more furious at a piece of writing

I find it bizarre that people knee-deep in leftist politics and social justice become TERFs, but also remember that common wisdom is still deeply transphobic and trans-exclusive, and the Natasha VC argument is anchored in 'common sense' and pleas to 'just be reasonable'

Do the Gawker sites look like shit to anyone running Windows? Trying a Windows PC to see if it can replace my iMac, most sites look fine except for Deadspin/etc. in Chrome and Firefox.

(The fonts don't display correctly)

v disappointed to click on this and find that it wasn't written by Rich Juzwiak

http://i.imgur.com/XTkNUfl.png

lol