“I want people to express themselves and we want people to get better — to be nicer and more understanding of each other.

I think saying that is going to be a big laugh for a lot of people, like, ‘how can you say you want people to be nice when you let assholes have a voice?’ And the answer is pretty simple — because people don’t disappear just because you don’t let them speak. Jezebel has been making fun of those they judge to be misogynists and assholes forever, do they think the population of them has decreased as a result?”

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