“Here’s the thing: I don’t know you, but I know you don’t have to be an asshole. You don’t have to say that thing. You don’t have to start this whole conversation. You don’t have to make the women in our midst feel unwelcome if they don’t look like Allison Williams. You don’t have to make me feel disgusted to write for a website that people like you comment on. You don’t have to make the world a worse place. You don’t have to make that joke. It’s not worth it. You can be a bigger man. You can be a better person. And you’re just not.” — TV Critic Todd Vanderwerff’s response to a misogynistic comment on his Girls review. Via r/TwoXChromosomes.
Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
(Source: villa-kulla, via allieharch)
A photo of me and Antoine Dodson at ROFLcon. But is it ever appropriate for a professional journalist to ask a person of interest for a photo?
I answer that question in my latest post on Otaku Journalist, When is it unprofessional for a reporter to act like a fan? It’s more complicated than you might think.
He’s just workin’ on his cat blog.
KYMdb - I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
Apparently, I started a meme. That’s pretty neat.
That was your meme? It’s one of my favorites! I should have known.
The Daily Dot: On The Dot: May 15, 2012 -
Overheard in the newsroom(somebody get a tissue edition):
Kevin C. guys, i am so efficient right now and i ain’t talking about stories
talkin’ bout mucus
Lorraine M. wat u talkin bout willis?
Kevin M. metabolism?
Kevin C. i got a hella cold. i’m an utter snot factory
FYI
Chase H. JEAL!
Lauren O. Geez, I just can’t wait to meet you in person
You sound so… pleasant! Let’s be sure to shake hands a lot.
Jordan V. take a picture of your mucus
Kevin C. i sense your sarcasm. but I PROMISE to have washed them by then.
Lauren O. I’m sure you can schedule your biannual hand-washing a little early, just for me
(Source: dailydot.com)
KEVIN'S ON THE HUFFINGTON POST -
*gibbering with pride* Lookit our Kevie!
He just keeps getting love for this piece. George Takei posted about it on Facebook yesterday and when the art first went live, MTV, Cracked.com, the UK’s The Guardian, Comics Alliance, Bleeding Cool, the Daily Dot, and a slew of other blogs and news sites all posted about it, too!
Thank you so much to folks who spread this around. We’re glad you liked it enough to share.
(And a basket of hypoallergenic chocolate glitter kittens for everyone who linked back. That’s the best thing in the world you can do for an artist. Kevin and I really appreciate it!)
Congratulations, Kevin! It’s great news for us at the Daily Dot, too, since they gave us credit for digging up who the artist was and getting a comment. (Of course, we didn’t need to do any digging to figure that out!)
A gentleman always reblogs hilarious comics.
What is this I don’t even.
The most horrifying Wikipedia articles ever -
I wrote this article as a mistake.
My editor nudged me to write this list repeatedly, so I claimed the story figuring it was important. I spent the next hour crying as I wrote about the most horrifying stories humanity has to offer, from live human dissections to painful, fatal deformities.
After the story went live, my editor was shocked.
“I thought it would be about funny Wikipedia typos, not the most fucked up stories in history!” he said.
In the end, though, it was worth the trauma. Due to our sicko readers, it’s currently the most popular story on the site. Thanks guys!
How fangirls uphold the Internet’s Rule 34
The erotic fantasies of women around the world are in part thanks to one fangirl.
By now, most of us have been made aware of Fifty Shades of Grey, the runaway bestseller whose frank approach to feminine, BDSM desires has made it a cultural phenomenon. (The trilogy currently occupies the top three spots on the New York Times Best Sellers list But not everyone is aware that author E L James got her start on fanfiction.net or that she originally wrote her trilogy as a Twilight fanfic.
James is a fangirl who hit the big time.
Urban Dictionary defines a “fangirl” as “a rabid breed of human female who is obsessed with either a fictional character or an actor.”
It doesn’t take a linguist to see how derogatory a term the definer considered it to be. It’s clear that James became successful in spite of her fangirl past—not because of it.
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I wrote this and stuff. Check it out.
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