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Game developer and frequent Gamergate target Brianna Wu says she fears for her safety due to a bizarre and threatening YouTube video posted by a Massachusetts man this weekend. The man has posted several videos accusing Wu of trying to assassinate him; the newest video shows him standing next to his wrecked car, which he…
I.“Hey Anna, do you like pizza?”I was just sitting down to dinner one evening this past November when I looked through some new Twitter notifications on my phone. My night, I realized regretfully, was about to get very, very stupid. The Twitter user was named “Davidkalac69,” the photo a white egg on a purple background….
(Photo : Facebook/Law and Order SVU) Read below for “Law and Order: SVU” news, spoilers, or recaps. In an upcoming episode of “Law and Order: SVU,” the series will take on the real-life problem of female intimidation in the gaming world. Episode 14, “Intimidation Game” follows the harassment of a female video game developer and…
by Jessica Goldstein Posted on January 30, 2015 at 12:30 pm Updated: January 30, 2015 at 3:11 pm “Acclaimed Novelist Sells 30 Million Books, Is Remembered For Her Physical Appearance In Obituary” Colleen McCullough, 1977. CREDIT: AP Colleen McCullough wrote 25 novels. Her The Thorn Birds sold 30 million copies worldwide for $1.9 million, then a…
I’m no stranger to strict dress codes; I grew up in a small Alabama town and went to a small religious school, where girls were not allowed to wear shorts, tank tops, or anything other than a dress on Wednesdays . It seemed normal at the time and the school has long since abandoned its “girls can’t wear shorts”…
Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ In a breaking news story out of norther Quebec, a young Indigenous woman from an Inuit village has filed suit against the police after she was left handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser where she was then raped. The woman, who was 17-years-old when the incident took place,…
Erin Dyer is a sorority sister at the University of Virginia. (Photo courtesy of Erin Dyer) Erin Dyer, a sorority sister and a junior at the University of Virginia, wrote this (very lightly edited) piece after she was told that she and other sorority members on campus would not be allowed to attend fraternity parties…
After a decade of grossly offensive advertisements objectifying scantily-clad women, website domain provider GoDaddy is trying to convince the world that its tasteless days are over. In late 2013, chief marketing officer Barb Rechterman announced that the company has “matured” and “evolved” and promised to put an end to its infamous racy ads. This decision…
It’s going to take a revolution to change the sordid and systemic sexism in Silicon Valley. Our cover story: http://t.co/1qXvXer9cs — Newsweek (@Newsweek) January 29, 2015 Good on Newsweek for taking on the subject; bad on Newsweek for doing it with this cover, tagline, and story. “The sexism in Silicon Valley is sordid”—like that cover—”shocking”—like…
On a spring afternoon last year at an outdoor café in San Francisco, two denizens of the tech community sketched out their strategy for a startup. Like most 28-year-olds in Silicon Valley, they had smarts and dreams. One was a passionate, fast-talking New Yorker, the other a shy computer whiz from Syracuse, New York, and…