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A new anti-Trump ad is just things that candidate has said about women, read aloud by women. “A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a ten,” a brunette actress with glasses says thoughtfully. Trump, a sentient wig possessed by an ancient evil, is also a veritable repository of vile thoughts about…
Hulk Hogan. Getty Images Not long after taking the stand in the Hogan v. Gawker lawsuit, Jezebel editor Emma Carmichael faced the exact kind of sexist BS her website covers. After fielding questions from both Gawker and Hogan’s legal teams about her role in the publishing of the Hogan sex…
To the unassuming eye, Harvard Law School’s 80-year-old shield is just three sheaves of wheat. But the image is actually based on the crest of the Royalls, a slave-owning US family that helped establish the school’s first professorship in the 18th century. Due to its historic association with racism, Harvard Law students—amid a national debate…
Kristen Sze’s tweet Twitter /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Kristen Sze, an ABC news anchor in San Francisco, felt the wrath of Twitter when she had the audacity to question the price of Sasha and Malia Obama’s state-dinner dresses. According to Sze, the gowns ranged in price from $17,000-$20,000, and she deemed them “too expensive” for such…
West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2016.Jim Young/Reuters Photo from “Postcards From America” by Mark Power/Magnum Photos “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster….
People die. Characters die. This is perhaps life’s most unfortunate fact: that people will die and leave the rest of us behind. It’s incredibly rare that any dramatic television series lasting over three seasons will never kill a main or recurring character, and all those deaths have driven a stake through the heart of fandom: Joyce on Buffy, Lady…
Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site’s handling of Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned. Fields and Shapiro informed Breitbart News chair Steve Bannon of their decision Sunday night. “Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate…
A new survey of young Americans aged 13 to 20 years old (also known, in marketing-speak, as “Generation Z”) has found that they are far more open-minded and permissive than their older millennial counterparts when it comes to issues of gender and sexuality. According to a report by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson…
My fellow millennials, we’re already a relic of the past. Gone are our days of defining the zeitgeist. Pack it up. Show’s over. Nothing to see here. Because the upcoming legendary children, as Vice so gingerly puts it, are queer as fuck. A new study by trend forecasting agency J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group found…