“Working at Gawker was somewhere in between doing time in an asylum and worshipping in a cult.”Tagged: Gawker
“I think a lot of us—and the site overall—share a sensibility that simultaneously takes the world very seriously while understanding that everything is a big joke. And we’d joke about the overly serious and take serious the overt jokes. I dusted as much as possible with a thin layer of satire,…”Tagged: Gawker
“I have never felt entirely comfortable in any group, but I came closest at Gawker, because I generally felt like I was working with people who were the best at what they did, making something that would with another staff and (inevitably) more stifling management be impossible.”Tagged: Gawker
“The site’s run-till-tackled mentality was exhilarating while we ran—I appreciated that no one ever asked me to reduce myself or change to appease readers, especially because I know that even the best-intentioned among a liberal audience can have a hard time swallowing really gay shit. The tackling…”Tagged: Gawker
“What appealed to me, more than anything, was a sensibility that loathed preciousness, that refused to defer to the most sensitive person in the room out of social pressure and smarmy politeness.”Tagged: Gawker
“Because of Gawker’s breadth, and because it didn’t have so much a single voice as a cacophony of several voices at any given time, the site meant many different things to many different people.”Tagged: Gawker
“When I think about the demise of Gawker, I cope by viewing it from a remove and as a narrative. If nobody starves and this somehow manages to leave freedom of press unscathed (the latter obviously being the bigger if than the former), what has been crafted is a tale that would seem too outrageous as…”Tagged: Gawker
“Aretha Franklin was the prototypical soul diva whose explicit incorporation of gospel into R&B and pop changed music forever. Franklin’s titanic singing brought melisma to the masses, and indelibly filled whatever musical space it entered. A pop-culture pioneer, she was a black woman solo artist who…”Tagged: Entertainment
“When I showed up on set, respect wasn’t a given—I had to repeatedly prove myself in order to earn it. I found a lot of men had contempt for me until they got to know me.”Tagged: Me Too, Hollywood
“Ignorance is not absolution. The failure to realize the origins of a word does not erase them.”Tagged: LGBT, LGBT Abuse, Slurs, Masculinity
“Forget compassion, care, or love—this is somebody who strung you along by deceit during a pandemic that has required social isolation and now is directly responsible for a secondary outbreak of loneliness. That’s a good indication of where this guy’s head is, or more precisely, isn’t. He just isn’t…”Tagged: Love And Sex
“He needs to ask himself if he wants continued harmony, or if he wants these extracurricular activities to threaten the good thing you have.”Tagged: threesomes, Sex