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Erica Lourd
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Video Producer for Jalopnik. In a committed relationship with her 2007 Nissan Sentra named Layla.

I would pay all of the little $$$ I have to go on a car spotting walking tour with Raph Read more

How about women in the automotive industry who get this treatment in real life? This stuff is not confined to keyboard warriors and trolls on the internet. I am a woman in automotive sales (Internet sales manager at a dealership). The following happen to me on a near-daily basis: Read more

*clicks on article written for people like me, skips the video and text content, goes directly to the comment section to do the thing that the people who created the content to tell me not to do* Read more

It’s not just the internet. Women get treated differently face to face too. Read more

It didn’t say he didn’t know about it, just that he may have not known the degree, which seems fair.  Read more

One of the many reasons I frequent Jalopnik is the multitude of writers that post regularly, many of whom are female. I think it’s one of the site’s best features, frankly. It sucks that you have to deal with this kind of behavior, but I applaud all of you for continuing to do your work despite it.
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But the way in which women and female-presenting people get trolled and abused online is different. Their experience, expertise and advice gets discounted on the basis that they are women. They get called all sorts of gendered slurs, and plenty of unsolicited offers for sex. Their very existence in this arena is Read more

Hey bum Torchinsky, the hurricane isn’t hitting the Carolinas, it’s hitting Alabama! Failing Jalopnik probably staged the Jeep in the ocean too! ANOTHER Chinese car that can’t surf. SAD! Read more

If you can learn, and train yourself to recognize, the difference between “I’m offended because I’m a self-important, moralizing person.” and “I’m offended because you’re minimizing actual harm that has happened to me because we live in an unjust system.” you will have made the first step toward being a better human Read more

As the proud owner of a 2019 Camry SE in Supersonic Red, I feel the need tell you to go and fuck yourself for blindly tarring every Camry owner in history with the same brush. Read more

“Why doesn’t all Jalopnik content specifically cater to MEEEEEE?” Read more

You doing okay today, bud? You’re usually way more pleasant than this Read more

That makes Han totally bummed out.