“The Scam is a scam, and its winking self-referentiality serves in the end to do nothing much more than to gloss over that it is, in fact, a scam, perpetuated by someone who, probably like a lot of the people who attended the event, has a hard time meeting their rent.”— Anna Iovine, vice.com
“I’m allowed to not be angry about things that other people might be angry about.”— Robyn Kanner, gen.medium.com
“Critique comes with being an author — and critique about personal writing can feel particularly weaponized, since that writing is fundamentally intimate and revealing. But you also have the option of not putting yourself through all this, again and again.”— Scaachi Koul, buzzfeednews.com
“Operators have an average of 20 minutes to eat and get to their next access point to ensure buses and trains are on time, according to the union. Most operators do not have a sanitary place to have their meals due to rodents and insects in the system and a lack of break rooms at some stations, the u…”— Tasneem Nashrulla, buzzfeednews.com
“It's about time James Charles stopped getting a pass for his repeatedly toxic behavior. But why did it take a video from Tati for the internet to finally cancel him?”— Morgan Sung, mashable.com
“We know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”— Jon Ronson, amazon.com
“Even as I write this, though, I’m not entirely sure that making these allegations more visible does any good, and whether it necessarily creates a situation where reparative justice is possible.”— Anna Merlan, jezebel.com
“All in all, then, a few half-baked and plagiarized punchlines from puberty are both less revealing and less relevant than an outrage cycle would have us believe.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com