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The horrifying debate around Mississippi's Personhood Amendment has yielded up an interesting rhetorical tidbit: some anti-choicers apparently see abortion rights as castrating America's masculine spirit. That's a viewpoint with some disturbing connotations. More »
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Women acting crazy? Penises? Divorce? California? Well, this should give Jay Leno enough material to get him through the end of the 2014 TV season. More »
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Ophelia De'lonta needs gender reassignment surgery. But the Virginia prison where she's an inmate won't pay for it. So she's been trying to do it herself. More »
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A young male model has apparently confessed to castrating and killing Portuguese journalist and gay rights activist Carlos Castro on Friday — in order, he says, to "get rid of [Castro's] homosexual demons." More »
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After learning his 17-year-old daughter was dating a 57-year-old man, Helmut Seifert of Germany went to the man's house with two friends and castrated him with a bread knife. "I saw it as my duty as a father," says Seifert. More »
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Oh yes: Furniture shopping is rife with gender issues. And a dude who doesn't have a "man chair" basically has no balls. Tragic! More »
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The German chapter of PETA wants to remove Knut's nuts! The animal rights group warns that if Knut is allowed to mate with his live-in cousin Gianna, he could threaten the gene pool and risk "incest depression." [Sydney Morning Herald] More »
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New Yorker Brigitte Harris, who's accused of murdering her abusive father, testified yesterday that she only meant to castrate him. She said she destroyed his penis on the stove so it couldn't be reattached, like John Bobbitt's. [NY Daily News] More »
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Horror is often cited as the most misogynistic movie genre because male characters are usually the murderers and women are usually the victims of their heinous crimes. However, there are many classic horror gems in which men become vulnerable and women literally cut their dicks and balls off. I've collected 10 castration scenes from horror movies, which can all be viewed here. It's super NSFW, natch. [Street Carnage] More »
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Jesse Jackson used to be considered a great man and a great civil rights leader. He was considered MLK's protégé, he was the first African-American candidate to run a credible campaign for the Democratic nomination, he helped free hostages, he fought for social justice... And yet, somehow, with the United States credibly on the cusp of elected its first African-American president — a ceiling that Jackson himself put some cracks in — it's been a tough year for him. Today's news is that as a supporter of Barack Obama — not an adviser — he told the World Policy Forum that Obama's election would reduce the clout of the "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades." The fuck? More »
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