Jezebel: Assholes

Lad Mag Suggests Guys Get Rapey, Because Odds Are in Their Favor

Anna North — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:40:00 EST

Remember how it's hard to tell the difference between British lad mags and rapists? Well, it's especially tough when said mags actually tell their readers to rape women. Which was apparently online mag UniLad's idea of a funny joke. More »

Cranky Old Politician Promises to Commit Hate Crimes Against Transsexuals

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:30:00 EST

Awful Restaurant Customer Leaves Worst Kind Of Tip

Anna North — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:35:00 EDT

A waitress at a Seattle restaurant recently posted the "tip" she received from a patron — instead of actually tipping her, he told her to lose weight. More »

Joe Francis In Trouble With The Law (Again)

Irin Carmon — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:05:00 EDT

Isn't it weird how Joe Francis keeps being surrounded by lying bitches who accuse him of being at best as asshole and at worst a criminal? It's almost as if they go out and look for poor, innocent Joe. More »

Dude Cheats On Wife, Ruins Life, Blames Everyone Else

Sadie Stein — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:30:00 EDT

Just when you think this article — which might be called the ultimate "crap justification from a dude" — can't get more jaw-dropping, it does. Oh, does it ever. More »

Fox News Slideshow Asks, "Which Celebrity Spinster Will End Up an Old Maid"?

Irin Carmon — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:08:27 EST

It appears to be syndicated from Sodahead.com, whose tagline is "Opinions... Everybody's got them." Like assholes! More »

Social Minefield: How To Deal With People You Hate

Anna North — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:52:00 EDT

The number one question we get at Social Minefield is "how do I deal with my friend's horrible boyfriend?" Today we offer tips on coping with him — and all the other people you hate in life. More »

Horrible Human Being Ditches Limping Dog [Update: Faith In Humanity Restored!]

Jessica Coen — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:21:00 EDT

You know what I'm really fucking tired of? I'm tired of people throwing animals in garbage cans and rivers and, today, just abandoning them. The video isn't violently disturbing, per se, but it is heartbreaking. Proceed only with emotional caution. More »

Mel Gibson Will Work Again, Say Hollywood Insiders

Irin Carmon — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:20:00 EDT

According to The Daily Beast, Mel Gibson's billion-dollar empire is self-sufficient and doesn't need any help from the people he hates (almost everyone, see Village Voice chart). Regardless, Hollywood is unlikely to shun a proven money-maker. [TDB, Village Voice] More »

Mel Gibson Tape Shows He Is Also A Racist, Abusive Asshole

Irin Carmon — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:20:38 EDT

RadarOnline has heard a tape in which Mel Gibson tells the mother of his child, "You look like a fucking pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault." There's more. More »

This Is Where Arthur Kade Messed The F*ck Up

Anna North — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:40:00 EST

Arthur Kade, noted humanitarian and inventor of the groundbreaking Kade Scale (it rates women from 1 to 10!) has broken in to the Australian media with an interview in Cleo magazine, which he has helpfully posted on his incomprehensiblog. More »

Facebook System Proves Rape Jokes Even Less Funny As Acrostic Poems

Anna North — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST

Misogynistic DENNIS System, meet my system: Adjust brain for consumption of bullshit. Notice asshole Facebook group. Nope, rape's still not funny. AUSTIN system kind of is, though. [Facebook] More »

6 Bullshit Claims Made By The White House Party Crashers

Anna North — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST

The more Michaele and Tareq Salahi try to tell their story of how they were "invited" to the White House, the more it looks like Swiss cheese. After the jump, we take apart some of their most ridiculous assertions. More »

I'm Lovin' It

Anna Holmes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:10:00 EST

[Washington, D.C., December 1. Image via Getty]

Will Anti-Fat Hate Crimes Make People Take Sizeism Seriously?

Kate Harding — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:00 EDT

While riding a nearly-empty train in the evening, Marsha Coupe was attacked by another woman who kicked and punched her repeatedly, leaving her with 40 bruises and one eye swollen shut. The reason given? Coupe took up two seats. More »

Tucker Max Fans: The Lowest Form Of Life

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:40:00 EDT

Tucker Max must be proud. His fans have photo-shopped signs from the protest of his movie with jokes about "fat chicks" and rape. And if you're thinking what could possibly be funnier than rape? here's the answer: racism! [TheSexist] More »

Farting Will Cost Joe Francis Millions

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EDT

A judge has ruled that Joe Francis must pay $3 million in gambling debts to Wynn Las Vegas. During his deposition, the Girls Gone Wild founder asserted his Fifth Amendment rights after nearly every question, and farted repeatedly. [LVSun] More »

Facebook Tell-All "Big Juicy Fun," Filled With Sexism, Assholes

Sadie Stein — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EDT

It seems Facebook was founded by a bunch of misogynistic assholes. Should we be mad? More »

The Passion Of The Hills: What's Next For Lauren And Speidi

Anna North — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:20:00 EDT

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While Lauren Conrad tries to leverage her Hills fame into a "writing" career, Heidi and Spencer have already found their next costar: God. More »

How Social Conservatives Are Ruining Marriage

Megan Carpentier — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT

The more shit I read about how The Institution Of Marriage cannot survive the participation of same sex couples in contractual arrangements sanctioned and provided for by the government of all the people, by all the people and for all the people, the less I want to get married myself. More »

"What's The Best Way To Covertly Scratch Your Vadge?"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:00 EDT

It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the biweekly "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. More »

Purported Nude Photos Of Pop Star "Leak" Onto The Internet

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Although we're not going to link to them, a bunch of naked and semi-naked photos allegedly featuring (and photographed by) Rihanna are making their way around the web this afternoon. More »

Catch & Release

Anna Holmes — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:40:00 EDT

"He told me that he could not live without me, and that he would not stop telling me how he felt. And then he disappeared." Hey, lady, welcome to my late 20s. [NY Times] More »

262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch

Maria — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

Well 2008 is finally ending and what better (read: horrible) way to wind down the year than with an update about our friends from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? More »

Daddy Issues

Maria — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:40:00 EST

The son of the "British Fritzl," the man who impregnated his two daughters 19 times, says he lived in fear of his father, who was abusive, and hopes he "rots in hell." Ditto. [Guardian] More »

Why Do People Care When A Woman Cuts Her Hair?

Maria — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:30:00 EST

Looks like it's time for yet another scare-story telling women that a short 'do is a "don't" if they want to attract men. Why are short cuts on women so controversial? More »

Positively Criminal

Maria — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:40:00 EST

A 47-year-old man from New York and former AIDS center volunteer forged an HIV test to convince his girlfriend to have unprotected sex with him. The man stole an HIV test from the AIDS Center for Queens County, where he worked, and wrote that he was "negative/nonreactive" for HIV. After a few months of having unprotected sex, the woman began to question the authenticity of the test and the man admitted that he had been HIV-positive since 2003. He faces up to seven years in prison. [NY Post] More »

Men's Mid-Life Crises Now The Fault Of Feminism

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST

A generation ago, when a man "suddenly" woke up to a pot belly, a passel of kids, a life of responsibility and a few gray hairs, he freaked out, bought a penis-replacement vehicle, fucked his secretary and got hair plugs and flashy clothes. According to Details' Simon Dumenco, however, the mid-life angst of the modern male is the fault of females expecting men to spend their 20s and 30s stifling their urges to be douchebags. More »

John Molony, the mayor of Mount Isa in Australia,...

Maria — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:20:00 EST

John Molony, the mayor of Mount Isa in Australia, won the top award for sexism today at the annual Ernie Awards. The Ernies are awarded based on 10 different categories of sexism, including a top sexist award, an award for sexist females and one for anti-sexist men. Molony, you may remember, was the man who suggested that unattractive women move to his town because of its high population of men. [Reuters] More »

Hollaback Girl

Maria — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:20:00 EDT

A 28-year-old woman in New York who spotted a man taking pictures up her skirt as she was entering a subway station decided to turn her camera on the perv and took a cell phone picture that eventually led to his arrest. On Tuesday, the NYPD arrested Aaron Olivieri on misdemeanor charges of unlawful surveillance, attempted sexual abuse and harassment. With cell phone cameras becoming more and more popular, woman targeted by street and subway harassers are encouraged (when it is safe) to snap pictures of pervs to fight back. One website, Hollaback NYC, encourages victims to post pictures and stories of harassment and the NYPD encourages people who witness crimes to send pictures to 911 when they call. (Image via Hollaback NYC.) [NYT] More »

Would you like to "give people in your life...

Anna North — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:40:00 EDT

Would you like to "give people in your life a heads-up of when you might be feeling a bit irritable without having an awkward conversation"? Try PMSBuddy — the web applicationthat supposedly alerts up to five men that women "are closing in on "that time of the month" - when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all." PMSBuddy even has a Facebook page, on which a satisfied customer with the name of Lkjv Vlk writes, "I wont have to ask my wife 'are you having PMS' ever again!" We'd disemvowel Lkjv just for shit n' giggles if we could but it seems someone already beat us to it. More »

1Oak, an overrated NYC hotspot with a troubling...

Maria — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:40:00 EDT

1Oak, an overrated NYC hotspot with a troubling reputation for general assholery, has run into more trouble. A federal lawsuit has been filed alleging that manager Francis McHugh, and Olsen-dating owner, Scott Sartiano, fired several minority employees because they wanted "white girls [they] could fuck." One of the waitresses making the claim, an Asian American woman, was told that Sartiano had "a thing about Asians" and wanted "all white girls." (A male bartender also alleges that the club fired him because of his race.) A lawyer for the club claims that these allegations are just coming from "disgruntled employees" who were fired for poor work performance. [Daily News] More »

An observant reader sent us a photo of these...

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:40:00 EDT

An observant reader sent us a photo of these panties she saw in the sale bin at Victoria's Secret this weekend. It says "Hint Hint" with a graphic of an engagement ring. Gross, right? We're thinking that if a dude you're dating only listens to you when you're talking out of your ass, then maybe you deserve each other. More »

Legendary Super Sweet 16 Ingrate Revisited

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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Today MTV reran a classic episode of My Super Sweet 16. It featured Audrey, who become somewhat iconic of the spoiled brattery of her generation after she famously freaked the fuck out on her mom for giving her a $67,000 Lexus (to "practice" driving with) on the day before her Quinceañera bash. I always feel a little bit bad for viral video subjects like Audrey: after all, maybe her hormones were going nuts, or maybe she was just having a bad day, or maybe there was a backstory that MTV managed to edit out. However, watching the full episode today made me realize that Audrey is indeed a major asshole. She was terrible to her mother and to her friends. She even went out of her way to make some of her friends feel like shit while trying on dresses that she picked out for them to wear, telling some of them that they needed to "lose some pounds." I really hope this kid is one of the subjects for the new MTV series Exiled. More »

College Senior Is Sexually Assaulted While Group Of Dudes Cheer

Jessica G. — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Melissa Bruen, the outgoing editor-in-chief of the UConn Daily Campus decided to write a first-person essay about her sexual assault as her last act as EIC. In late April, UConn had its annual spring weekend — a drunken rite that occurs at most colleges during the hazy end of spring semester. Bruen was walking home from parties at off-campus apartments on a path affectionately known to Huskies as "rape trail." She decided to make a phone call, and, as she was leaning against a telephone pole, a large man shoved her against the pole and "dry humped" her. Bruen, who had been assaulted before, decided to take action. She pushed him away, and when she had him pinned to the ground, punched him smack in the face. A group of men who had been watching this all go down eventually pulled Bruen off her assailant, who ran off. She started screaming, "He just assaulted me," and that's when one of the violence voyeurs said to her, "You think that was assault?", pulled down her shirt, and grabbed her breasts. More »

Macho Macho Man

maria — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:40:00 EDT

In Mexican-American culture there are supposedly two stereotypes for young men to base their own "manliness" on: "caballero", a gentleman and family man, and "machismo", a hypermasculine chauvinist. A recent study explored these two images of manhood among Mexican-American men and found that men who identified as "caballero" were generally happier than macho men. The reason for this could be the coping skills that accompany each identity: caballeros used practical problem-solving to deal with their problems while macho men used "wishful thinking." (Oh yeah, and machismo men are usually assholes; that might have something to do with them being less happy!). [Science Daily] More »

An Australian douchebag claimed that it...

mcarpentier — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:50:00 EDT

An Australian douchebag claimed that it wasn't his fault that he kidnapped and raped his victim in 1997 because he was bit by a spider. Um, asshole? You're not Spiderman. In one small sign of hope for us as a species, the jury told him to go fuck himself and convicted him anyway. His sentence for kidnap and rape? 8 years. So, a really small sign. [Yahoo News] More »

Nobel-Awarded Geneticist: Black People Are Stupid Sex Fiends, All Women Should Be Hot Blondes

Moe — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:56 EDT

So it's Day 2 into that "People are more likely to believe gossip than they are actual facts," story, which is conveniently being used on the morning programs to explain America's obsession with celebrity tabloids although it might be more useful towards explaining why 40% of Americans or whatever still believe Saddam Hussein helped orchestrate 9/11 or why vast swaths of the Middle East can deny the Holocaust — although hey, who wants to hear about facts when Larry Craig is defending his heterosexuality on TV? — when what pops across my web browser but... a story about Nobel prize-winning double helix discoverer James Watson. Like Ann Coulter, he has a new book out! And according to all the reviews, he's quite the "gossip." Which might explain his latest statements:

The 79-year-old geneticist said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really." He said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true".

WTF, Mr. Watson? Wethinks someone is overdue for the Bill O'Reilly Tour Of Harlem! More »

"Some Say" Katie Couric Is An Asshole

Anna Holmes — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:39:52 EDT

The internet is abuzz this morning with angry bloggers railing against Katie Couric's line of questioning during her sitdown with John and Elizabeth Edwards on last night's 60 Minutes. More »