My guess: they decided he needed to vacate the Oval on November 9.

He doesn’t seem to be changing minds and winning hearts. Read more

agreed, but this suggests more about the social tendency to shy away from diversity and make up excuses for our own behavior, doesn’t it? I mean, it’s not like there’s a reason to be suspicious that other people need social support, other than the pretense we tend to carry around :( Read more

I really appreciate that sentiment!! Thank you so much. Read more

Exactly. There’s a difference between trying to clarify your statements on one hand, and trying to walk back a performative exploration of white fragility in the face of actual facts and the notion that their information about the world operates on a level that most folks of color never experience as a result of… Read more

That’s because I apologized to Bobby, not the shitty editorial strategy that was pitched as an ‘experiment,’ but had no follow-through or discussion.
I had no intention — still don’t — of issuing a blanket apology.

It’s not fun to be a lab rat reader for ad traffic. As a result, I’ve stopped coming back as much. There… Read more

so it’s uncool for a dentist to hunt endangered animals, but it’s definitely cool to eat the near-endangered. got it. Read more

This. I think this is going to be the selling point for regional/local franchises, and I think Blizzard is really tapping something special. Like we saw at Katowice with the ‘local’ support for European teams throwing down for IEM in Poland, just supercharged and occurring in stadiums in the US on the weekends, which… Read more

That’s interesting. Read more

Keep it up, Eric! Esports is definitely a growing content segment and GMG has a great strategy for meeting it head-on. Read more

So, I’ll pose my editorial question to you, then, Julianne. Legitimately, no offense intended, but if the editorial team knew that an admittedly mostly-female readership would likely not enjoy the content being pushed out by a mostly not-female writing staff, particularly with the intent of using it as a sort of… Read more

That you’ll give it all for editorial integrity and *science*.  Read more

So, it was really fun to deal with what definitely felt like trolly behavior from many of the other guys or the commentary they wanted to post. It genuinely, from the perspective that I had in addition to many other posters, that this wasn’t really *fun* for us to defend Jez. Fair enough, we didn’t have to, but I… Read more

Thanks for being a human that demonstrates the capacity for human empathy even within a small degree of the possibility that you have any emotional fiber left. Read more

which is why they shouldn’t revert the change to enable the .5% of players who really just care about exploiting a mechanic to get literally cosmetic items that have no functional difference on gameplay. Read more

This isn’t entirely true — things like rights, equal access, etc doesn’t really mean there’s an exact trade-off, either, which is why things are *more* confusing when male allies fail to step up? Read more

I just mean, I think that there’s a boundary about where communication crosses the line for a given audience, generally speaking, particularly when you generally know what the form and function tends to be for the content they are expecting. Read more

Appreciate the effort. Still misses the mark, and while it hurts me to say that as a reader, I’m sure you’re both dealing with some ideas/thoughts/emotions as 2 male authors on staff who actually *do* give a shit about Jez. Read more

I actually just love her all the time. I don’t think she has to be a ‘perfect’ feminist to earn love or admiration for the work she has done in the name of women’s equality. Read more

Which, again, is another fucked up way of saying “she’s a bad example of a woman” in coded society-speak. Read more

Or, alternatively, if they were told in advance that the man was a very successful career politician and the woman was known, in the past, to be a ‘bit nasty’ when it comes to getting her way. Read more