Please never name an accuser, and please never share this document with a man.

Jeb Lund - Formerly Guardian, formerly Rolling Stone - Verbal intimidation of female colleagues, creepy DMs, encourages other men to have sex with blacked out women because "that's what they're there for"

multiple people, not just women allege terrible behavior
<--can confirm; it's not sexual afaik but he has repeatedly bullied a young male staffer in my office

By winter, I’ve effectively moved into Lou’s apartment, a second story coach on Chicago’s north side. One of the bedrooms is a storage closet. Lou has a roommate, an archly hip sort of southern girl who loves to cook for us despite possessing the skepticism toward me of a lover’s roommate. The pressure of close quarters is relieved, most nights, by the porch: a wooden balcony, jutting out from the front door over the yard. It’s painted blue and possesses inconvenient gaps, which we eventually wrap in cellophane to keep just enough of the heat in to make the cold tolerable. The wrap keeps the smoke in, too. Contemplating the color from a string of Christmas lights hung year round, refracted off cheap plastic and through cigarette haze, falling on Lou’s mostly naked body becomes my private ritual, acted out on any number of winter three a.m.’s, when we go there to escape the stuffiness of her room that is too much for languid, post-coital comfort.

Cigarettes are so frequently an affect, in writing and in life. She smokes because she likes it, and I like this about her.

I say so, one night.

“I’m just better at performing my identity than you,” she says.

I find this inexplicably funny, but I’m very tired, too.

Writers, trying to construct the early parts of love for an audience, use single, ornamented images like these; otherwise they hurry, throwing out a stock of frantic conversations with excitement and discovery, recounting with a staccato urgency the tearing of clothes and writhing limbs in beds and bathrooms and on floors. They remember long talks of mutual recognition with clocks ignored till daylight. The trouble of course is that in deploying these clichés, they are trying to summon somehow, in retrospect, the feeling of a time that appeals precisely in its disregard for retrospect. The howling, late night conversation, the frantic fucking: the beauty is in the shared feeling that we’ve finally got it right, and for a moment can believe we won’t need to talk about it later in more nuanced, measured tones.

I'm a big Jeb Lund guy but maybe bullying, intimidation, and rape jokes are the kinds of things that happen when you start giving all the prestige writing gigs to erstwhile Something Awful goons.

Man, as a 10+ year member at SA, where's my gig?

The current narrative being spun by the American Left seems to be, "all straightmen are shitty, all women are good." Probably not the best recipe for a healthy society.

The current narrative being spun by the American Left seems to be, "all men are shitty, all women are good." Probably not the best recipe for a healthy society.

seems like a distant memory when "a rape on campus" and the duke lacrosse team stories were beginning to expose the cracks in witch hunts. but after harvey weinstein, if you're a guy...you may as well begin collecting the firewood for your pyre.

Rumor has it that when you tweet "large adult sons" a hundred times while you look in the mirror, Dave Lozo appears and gives you a job at Vice. He also sexually harasses you, apparently.

We have arrived at the moment the left truly began destroying itself. This is what happens when they cant score a major win at any level while their arch-nemesis proves completely untouchable against the most concerted attempt by the American media to destroy an individual in history. When they cant beat their enemy they'll turn on each other. Over the next twelve months the left will have to reckon with its gospel. "Always believe the accuser"--well here's what that looks like. The Trump presidency is going better than even I thought it would.

I also remember when Jason Whitlock tried to expose Greg Howard's behavior and the Deadspin staff collectively recoiled in terror at such an unfair attempt to ruin Howard's career.

It's ok to be white.

It's ok to be male.

The shooters name was Samiel Hijiide.

#staywoke

Binders and binders of men...

The current narrative being spun by the American Left seems to be, "all men are shitty, all women are good." Probably not the best recipe for a healthy society.

Lena Dunham, to her credit, did write a show whose premise was that women can be as shitty, venal, and dumb as men. I hope she meant to.

You know, I'm torn on Dunham. I mostly find her to be a loathsome creature, but on the other hand, her show was written with the kind of self-awareness that so many of her generation sorely lack.