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Image via AP. This year’s Democratic Party Platform has been described as one the most progressive ever produced, particularly on the issue of sexual assault. “Democrats,” the platform states, “are committed to ending the scourge of violence against women wherever it occurs —whether in our homes, streets, schools, military, or elsewhere.” The platform’s commitment to…
Ally. Image via Getty. In the middle of a hot Tennessee summer, young Harry T. Burn was mulling the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Congress had proposed the amendment a year prior and it looked like it might die since only 35 states saw fit to ratify and others refused to hold special sessions in…
Image via Getty. In an essay for Marie Claire, MSNBC/NBC reporter Katy Tur writes that, after Donald Trump launched a personal attack against her at a South Carolina rally, she had to be accompanied out by Secret Service agents. Tur, who’s been covering Trump for the networks for the last year, became the focus of…
Athletes (not featured in the Daily Beast article) at the Olympics.Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose. The entire piece is an astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting,…
According to witchesthicket.com, one can tell she is a witch if she’s “aligned with the seasons” (pass on nature); “on fire in the summer, sexually and creatively charged and heated” (sure, I’m a Leo); and “in winter… feel[s] the weight and the silence of the dark pressing down on you” (who doesn’t?). Off to a…
Ahem. Let’s look at the Washington Post, so we can learn a really great #SlatePitch from a writer called Jeff Guo, about how Donald Trump doesn’t hate gays, but is rather doing the yeoman’s work of teaching the GOP how to love them in their own way: … Trump has refrained from launching barbs at one particular…
Just four months after causing outrage over a similarly offensive selfie lens, Snapchat has incurred the wrath of its users by enabling what many see as, effectively, a yellowface lens. According to Mic, users called out the social platform on Twitter yesterday, saying the lens caused people’s faces to look like racist Asian caricatures. While Snapchat has…
Chad Copley, 39, is charged with murder in connection to the shooting of a black man in Raleigh on Sunday, Aug 8. In his 911 call, he told the dispatcher he was going to confront “hoodlums” outside his home. He said “I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” (Monica Akhtar/The…
Nearly four decades is a long time to be hearing the same stuff about being a woman in power. The nauseating proof comes in the form of a new video that was put together by National Memo, a news and politics website, and posted to YouTube on Thursday. It tracks almost 40 years of Hillary…
GIF Images via Amazon. Being a woman is expensive. It’s a well–reported fact that everyday products—from razors and deodorants to jeans—cost more when marketed toward women than men. The crummy additional news is that women start getting ripped off right from their first sippy cup, an injustice that will persist until the day our pink,…