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close story-meta Credit Cari Vander Yacht MTV’s “TRL” recently welcomed Poppy, a rising star with hologram-perfect skin, an avant-garde Japanese schoolgirl wardrobe and a voice like Betty Boop’s on benzos. For much of the show, she perched silently on the couch and methodically stacked candies on a glass table. A longhaired handler called Titanic Sinclair…
Cover Photo Uma Thurman in New York. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein. close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Yes, Uma Thurman is mad. She has been raped. She has been sexually assaulted. She has been mangled in hot steel. She has been…
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The Atomwaffen Division has emerged as one of the most disturbing and volatile hate groups in America. An 18-year-old in Florida allegedly shoots and kills two of his roommates. A 21-year-old, also in Florida, plots to bomb synagogues and a nuclear power plant. A 17-year-old in Virginia allegedly shoots and kills his girlfriend’s parents. And…
The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman’s account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with “takes” arguing that the #MeToo movement had finally gone too far. “Grace,” the 23-year-old woman, was…
AP Representative Pat Meehan, Republican from Pennsylvania, has reached peak “thanks, Obama”-ism by attributing his mistreatment of a younger female aide to stress stemming from the Affordable Care Act. Meehan has been under fire since The New York Times reported this weekend that he used thousands of dollars in public funds to settle a sexual harassment…
Getty Over 130,000 adults combined in Florida and North Carolina are banned from reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s award-winning book about the effects of mass incarceration, according to a report by The New York Times. Earlier this month, the ACLU blasted New Jersey state prisons for what it said was an unconstitutional ban…
Screengrab – Fox News According to his Ted Cruz-penned Twitter bio, Mark Steyn is an “International bestselling author, Top Five jazz recording artist, & a leading Canadian human rights activist.” (He also recorded—I kid you not—a moody, introspective cover of Mel Blanc’s classic “I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat.”) But based on his Thursday…
Coercion is not consent. It is sexual abuse. It is sexual assault. It is rape. And “no” is a complete motherfucking sentence. [TW/CW: Descriptions of sexual assault, violence and rape culture.] With each 24-hour breaking news cycle I wait for the inevitable fall of another admired hero. I’ve almost gotten used to the gut-punch…
She approached him because she recognized his camera flash — Aziz Ansari was taking pictures at the 2017 Emmy Awards after-party with a film camera, not a digital one. “I stood up, and I’m like tipsy at this point and feeling really confident. I’m in a gown, and I walked up to Aziz and said,…