Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Alas, most millennial men aren’t as woke as Matt McGorry.Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images If you learned everything you know about millennials from articles about college students protesting sexist and racist curricula and demanding trigger warnings, you might think that we’re a woke bunch. Indeed, some self-proclaimed experts on millennials have declared that “this…
Donald Trump supporter Wayne Allyn Root appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to threaten Apple — yes, the same Apple who manufactured the very product you’re likely reading this on — with a boycott if it didn’t openly support Donald Trump. Co-host Steve Doocy noted that Apple had dropped its support of the Republican…
Earlier this month, I Sea, a new app which claimed to let users scan satellite images of the Mediterranean Sea looking for refugees in need of rescue, was hailed as a smart convergence of tech and social justice that just might save lives. The app shows users a small section of water embedded with geographic…
Earlier this month, the artist now formerly known as the Tribune Publishing Company rebranded itself as “tronc.” While the makeover entertained Twitter for a solid two hours (“tronc if you’re horny”), it also distracted from the fact that Tronc’s new strategy — which included moving its stock exchange listing to Nasdaq and launching troncX, a…
AP Radio News:Your browser does not support the audio element. Source: Authorities: Man at Vegas rally said he wanted to kill Trump
At BuzzFeed Motion Pictures we are creating a new kind of media practice that is deeply different from what you will find elsewhere in Hollywood. This is a practice where we commit to the development of our employees and to collaborating creatively. There have been a number of conversations recently about what it means to…
Hugo is one of my oldest friends, strange though it is to think about him as such; we’ve known each other fully half my life, or about as long as I’ve been sentient. We met online in 2000, back when you wrote your own content because there wasn’t much else to read. We were writing…
“The gays had it coming!” a man shouted and gazed back at the guy who’d called Hillary a bitch. They met eyes, shared a smile, a look of recognition. As if it were some kind of joke. As if 49 of his fellow Americans—49 living, breathing human beings—hadn’t just been mowed down. I’ve spent a…
A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee has leaked online following this week’s report that the DNC was breached by Russian hackers. In it, Trump is pilloried as a “bad businessman” and “misogynist in chief.” The document—which according to embedded metadata was created by…
Hello! And welcome to your Monday Morning Cringefest! In this edition, we are again taking a dive into the weird, sad world of MGTOWs — Men Going Their Own Way. For those of you unhip to the manosphere lingo, MGTOWs are repulsive dudes who voluntarily take themselves out of the dating pool and gene pool…