“But there are people who think everything on the internet is intended to be journalism. They go into reading anything as if the intent of that writing is altruistic, created primarily to inform the reader. They do this when the more obvious intent is to entertain them which is the intent of every fo…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“One of the scariest comments I read all the time across different platforms (but especially on Thought Catalog) is ‘you call this journalism?’ No. No one has called any of this journalism.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Please, please do not read something like you are shopping at the ‘As Is’ section at Ikea and accept whatever is in front of you. Reading is an assembly project! You aren’t stuck with whatever is on the page in front of you. Run it through your brain and see how it feels. React to it. Compare it to…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“If we want people to agree with us, or at least see our perspective, we have to do the work of convincing them. We can’t shame people into being more loving. We can’t hate people into agreeing with us. We can listen, we can provide them the catharsis of being heard. We can expose ourselves to the vu…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“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…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“The real issue is that people don’t want opinions they disagree with to be published. They don’t want writing that they don’t judge to be good to be published. They want their meal to come to them prepackaged and maybe even spooned directly into their mouth.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I believe in more publishing, not less. The more tools for creations and dissemination, the better. I believe that culture is like democracy, that for all the problems of letting any old idiot vote, it’s better than not letting particular people vote because you don’t think they’re voting the right…”— Richard Nash, 0s-1s.com