"Meanwhile some of us are watching from the sidelines, trying to stay out of the way, hoping not to be next." So where in the L.A. Times, Penthouse vlogs, Reason.com, the Ristretto Twitter feed, and Andy Ngo's House of Idiocy do "the sidelines" exist? Please, do tell use which ghouls are plucking you from your place on "the sidelines" and forcing you to keep yourself in the spotlight and keep the heat on Din's company?

Some people just don't know when to shut the fuck up.

Gosh, yes! "Outrage Culture" is so out of line! It's getting so a person can't start a blog to smear sexual assault survivors they've never met anymore!

So, in effect, these are rightwingers with a business problem trying to socialize it by asking people to give them money?

Rommelmann certainly does enjoy condescension: "I have been asked whether I hate the people who started this. The answer is I don’t. I see them as afraid of the ideas of others."

I thought you were going to provide an example of a shitty opinion in your parenthetical, but then you didn't.

Sounds like she's 100% correct, based on the reaction. cc:Dissenter

I completely agree with you. You do have shitty opinions.

I agree about the Beatles. I have a prepared statement that I'm always ready to deliver.

Everyone reading this Merc piece should also take a minute or two to read Rommelmans Op-Ed. I did and I came away w a different opinion.

She maybe an idiot for not realizing that the bad PR could affect her husband’s business - especially in one of the most liberal cities in the country- but she is right about the culture of outrage. In her Op-Ed she gives the example of the MAGA hat kid in DC. We all know how that went.

And someone called the vendors to say the company “promotes rape culture”. WTF. That seems pretty out of bounds.

"Everyone reading this Merc piece should also take a minute or two to read Rommelmans Op-Ed. I did and I came away w a different opinion." -- No, Ed, no they don't. She's sounded off on no fewer than five different platforms and isn't owed anything.

"She maybe [sic] an idiot for not realizing that the bad PR could affect her husband’s business - especially in one of the most liberal cities in the country-" There is no "may" about this.

"but she is right about the culture of outrage. In her Op-Ed she gives the example of the MAGA hat kid in DC. We all know how that went." I mean, there are people in Vancouver who regularly come here to express how outraged they are that Portland exists. Outrage happens.

"And someone called the vendors to say the company..." Yes, Ed, that's how a boycott works. It isn't "out of bounds," it's 100% the point of that action. And, yes, if you blame rape victims, you promote rape culture. New Seasons and MOC made up their own minds, now go buy a pound of coffee for the cause or be done with it.

What was the culture like at the company? Did it treat its employees fairly? Was there a culture of harassment there?

Or did the Merc just use its bully pulpit to destroy an innocent small business?

Ed, Nancy has used her own bully pulpit on a HALF DOZEN SEPARATE OCCASIONS to bring down her own husband's company. All the Merc has done is give her yet another avenue to do so. Thank you for weighing in from the Intellectually Dim Web, "Ed."

Let's go over the places where Nancy has friends: Nancy goes trolling protests with Andy Ngo one day and ends up in Quillette the next. Nancy pals around with Matt Welch at Reason and writes a few pieces, so she's naturally allowed editorial space there. Nancy wrote for the L.A. Times and got chummy with Sue Horton, so the op-ed section is all hers. Nancy did some work for Mark Zusman at the WW, so naturally she'll get treated with kid gloves there. Oh, and then there's Penthouse, where this whole mess began. Remind us again how the media has roughed up Nancy Rommelmann -- or why Nancy should, in any way, be treated like an objective journalist without favor or access.

Unable to edit or delete comments so...Apologies to the Merc for bully pulpit comment. And Doug Fer is correct in his last comment.

Re#15. He wrote 16 while I was writing. Not knowledgeable enough to comment on that.
And with that, I’m going to quit while I’m behind...

Ed Fuller is cc'ing dissenter because nothing says "against outrage culture" like needing your own special message board for like minded people everywhere you go on the internet.

Wait, I mean, NO, don't cc dissenter! Your posting on a comment board only people with a plug-in can see (when working) will totally own us libs! It's worse than posting to Gab! WE'RE SO PWNED!

meant Dean Fuller, not Ed Fuller. Sorry for the self-pwn

Dean, Ed... whatever. I'm sure it's the same QA in different wrapping.

"Or did the Merc just use its bully pulpit to destroy an innocent small business?"

Ed, that's not what bully pulpit means (it has nothing to do with bullying) - I hope people like you don't change the definition through incorrect over usage.

Nice article by a crybaby crying about a crybaby crying about crybaby culture.

"But rarely, if ever, do I cry like a baby and lash out at the people who criticize me. Why? Because it's not fucking fair. I'm wildly fortunate to have a forum in which I can express shitty opinions, so I refuse to abuse it by denying my readers a chance to respond."

So you believe those same readers, upon reading something they dislike that you wrote, are also morally entitled to find your spouse or significant other, and then target harassment against them?

25 FTW

PC cashman -. She is the boss. Maybe not on paper but defacto she was there all the time. She was part of creating a culture of her being in power over the employees. The underpaid need every help to even power out as possible. Not everyone can just quit a job easily, so they feel trapped and must keep their mouths shut when her politics effected those work place. She publicly called out a previous employee who criticized her. Then she used the company account to dig her grave deeper. No one sought out retribution on her family. She brought it upon herself. I don't know why or how her husband cannot or could not have stopped this activity of hers.

I would like to hear more from the former and current employees to see how the company treated them.

@28: "Maybe not on paper"? You mean actually, legally, and in the only way that matters?
As for "evening out the power" it's not equal nor is it intended to be. One side pays the bill's, the other is a bill. That's not equal because the investment and risk are not the same.