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Ellie Shechet
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Ellie is a freelance writer and former senior writer at Jezebel. She is pursuing a master's degree in science journalism at Columbia University in the fall.

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I was about to comment “this fucking guy,” and then I saw you’d titled the shared stories widget that [dancing twins emoji] Read more

Imagine how that feels for the woman or women who were at that game listening to the whole crowd cheer the name of her rapist. After he was expelled for raping her. And watching the entire team (who have to know what happened) wearing his name. Read more

I wish we didn’t give these young male athletes such an inflated since of self importance like we seem to do. This whole rhetoric of banding together with their brother and whatnot...please, you play college basketball, there’s honestly few things less important than that. Read more

It sounds to me like Yale acted swiftly and efficiently and got rid of the guy. The Women’s center recognises that because of FERPA, Yale can’t say anything about what happened so I’m not getting the whole “silencing” thing. However, as dumb as the team’s actions are (even if they don’t know the exact nature of what Read more

this is a more difficult basic thought experiment than the classic train guy Read more

They were showing a lot of footage of season 1 Jax on WWHL last night and I gotta say that he was a pretty foxy dude until the coke and steroid bloat took over. Read more

Good question! The goat is quietly replaced by another goat, you never actively see this happen and you may or may not ever notice depending on how strong your attention to detail is. Read more