An Indian billboard dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandela accidentally used a photograph of actor Morgan Freeman instead. Freeman played Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus, but the two are not, in fact, the same person (SEE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE ABOVE)—one of them being the deceased former leader of South Africa,…
When students at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish, WA found out that their vice principal was being fired for marrying his same-sex partner, they rallied. Students walked out of class yesterday in protest, and today administrators cancelled school because of "snow." LOL, okay.
In today's Tweet Beat, Vinny Guadagnino sends out an in-depth analysis of race relations in America, Alyssa Milano is indeed living under a rock and Elizabeth Gilbert makes an interesting analogy.
One of the most jarring details about childbirth is the controversial practice of episiotomy, a slight cut made in the vagina to ward off tearing. But you haven't experienced real body horror until you've seen this video demonstration, involving scissors and pink construction paper.
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. This holiday season she's got gift ideas for the clean, or not-so-clean, person in your life. Are you dirty? Email her.
Check out this gender role-swap video from the comedic team The Flip Side — comedians take the usual roles of men and women during the holidays and, er, flip them in situations like tree buying, attending a party, celebrating a new engagement and present swapping. Guys on friend's new engagement: "How did it happen,…
Welcome back to Fashion Scavenger Hunt, in which we all work together to help you track down the products of your dreams — clothing, shoes, makeup, a tastefully-patterned Snuggie, whatever — that have proved too elusive to find on your own. Email callie@jezebel.com if you'd like help finding your own Thing That…
The other night I found myself perusing toddler cleaning sets on Amazon, as one does. There I was, looking through the toy Dysons and the tiny play ironing sets when I saw them, and caught a glimpse into our future. A future in which equality reigns and beruffled rubber gloves with faux jewels glued to them in an…
Welcome back to Selfie Loathing, America's leading Vanity Smurf emporium. Step right up and be amazed by what stars do when they turn the camera on themselves. This week: Drake hates himself, Beyoncé kills it at DDR, Rihanna's got the holiday spirit(s) and Lena Dunham is feeling optimistic. Celebrity Instagrams,…
This is Chris and Mariesa's home. They have eight rescue dogs—Gremlin, Meatball, Money, The Stig, Moses, Tejas, Quinn, and Sammy. And they are actively looking for more (!!!) to adopt and take into their home. Because who hasn't always dreamed of living in the big crazy dog house! This was exactly the house we all…
Pink crap-drunk America was busy Racing For The Cure for the last 30 years, one race has been left behind in the fight against breast cancer: black women. In 2013, black women are still twice as likely to die from the disease than their white counterparts. Twice. As. Likely. That's a fucking disgrace.
A US District Judge struck down Utah's same sex marriage ban today, opening the floodgates for same sex marriages to occur in the state. Thanks to social media, one of the first gay men to marry in the state is able to excitedly livetweet his entire courthouse nuptials. And it's pretty sweet.
The karaoke channel on Vevo (yes, that's a thing that exists) recently released the list of their top most watched karaoke videos of 2013 and, not unlike a lot of 2013 lists, it heavily features Beyoncé.
Men's rights activism — a term most often applied to wounded community of daft, delusional, and often malignant denizens of the Internet who think that feminism threatens their basic rights and that rape isn't even that big of a deal — has had a busy week bringing shame to its already quite besmirched name. In the…
Big doings for Cher's stepbrother! Marvel has just confirmed that Paul Rudd is its latest superhero. He's been cast as Hank Pym, a.k.a. Ant-Man, in an Edgar Wright-directed movie due to hit movie theaters July 31, 2015.
In a landmark ruling, all of the justices sitting on Canada's highest court have declared the country's current prostitution laws unconstitutional, because they create unsafe conditions for sex workers.
Anyone who's ever lived under the same roof with a teenaged boy is familiar with some of the more...awkward facets of that experience. Puberty's hard on everyone, even the bystanders. Which is perhaps why this Amazon review of Kleenex tissues—titled "a mother's struggle"—is currently going viral on Twitter.
In the business of taste-making, holiday gift guides provide an important moment for celebrities with lifestyle brands to communicate their style. But given that celebrities tend to be super rich, are they really the best people to turn to when it comes to shopping lists? How in tune are they with their target demos? We rate celebrity gift guides, according to realistic and/or ridiculous price points.
O holy shite: Four days until Christmas! If you're stumped or stuck, remember that books make a great gift for people ages 1-100.
Well, this is about as evil as advertising gets.
In May of 2012, Conde Nast international issued a six-point pact
As Breaking Bad's popularity taught the nation about the meth business, it seems the drug itself has crept into America's real suburban PTA meetings.
The jig is up, ladies! Better scurry down to your "purse connection," aka your cousin's friend who works at the Cinnabon at the mall, because time is running out to get your hands on your favorite knock-off designer bags.
Did you know it's possible to make the concept of promise rings even more gross? I would have thought, "No, a father giving his daughter a fake wedding ring to remind her that he — well, he and Jesus — are the most important men in her life so she better not even think about fooling around with anybody else is about as…
Planned Parenthood's media team sent a 2013 holiday card to media types that contains chocolate condoms, emergency contraception, and birth control (pictured, probably with my drool on it). Needless to say, Planned Parenthood is ***flawless.
Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, former personal assistants to Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi, have been acquitted of fraud, the BBC reports. The pair were accused of racking up more than a million dollars worth of opulent purchases on their bosses' credit cards.
Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas and member of the Tea Party, is the subject of a coloring book "designed for children of all ages" that involves super fun, crayon-worthy topics like taxes and partial-birth abortion.
GUESS WHO WAS DOING SHOTS AT DAVE AND BUSTERS, THE ARCADE THAT SERVES STEAKS!
While we already knew that the athletes competing in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics would be wearing stunning Made In The USA™ Ralph Lauren
Over the past 40 years, Title IX has given college women incredible opportunities to participate in organized sports. But curiously/depressingly, as the number of women's teams — and, by extension, opportunity to coach those teams — has grown, the number of female coaches hired continues to shrink. American…
