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Thanks to a tipster's dexterity with a camera phone, we can all revel in this unreasonably large testament to Western culture's inveterate misogyny. Economical as a fine plastic bottle of Wódka may be, if its distillers were more concerned with their potential customers' impending hangovers, they'd finish the logical train of though that this billboard begins: "Escort quality, hooker pricing, morning STI realization." And what's going on with that sheep? Is the sheep the hooker or some sort of sex idol? More »
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Fratastic "comedian" Dane Cook showed up at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles last night to perform a most unexpected set. What a potentially unpleasant surprise! Famous comics — a label that really pains one to use in regards to Cook, but he was in some crappy movies — are known to drop in at clubs at random, usually bumping some of the night's scheduled performers to try out new material. And that is what happened last night. Here, according to various witnesses, are some choice snippets from his set: More »
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Pittsburgh radio sportscaster Mark Madden has responded to a woman's Twitter insult by responding that all women are idiots who should "get in the kitchen." More »
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We've been spending a lot of time mulling over the type of verbal abuse that's directed toward women lately, but in discussing the insults' misogyny and sexism, we're ignoring the fact that many of the more colorful anti-woman diss attempts would actually make pretty terrific band names. Pick up your bass guitar, your tambourine, and your mixing board— we're about to make the hate rock the fuck out. More »
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"A repressed and unfeminine lump, vulgar and shallow to the core." "Just pushing for your own feminist vagina agenda regardless of the facts." "We used to confine people to sanitariums for these kinds of outbursts." These are just a few of the responses three female writers have gotten when they tried to express their views on the Internet. Sadly, they're far from alone. More »
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By now you may have heard that, at least according to a recent ad, Dr. Pepper Ten is "not for women." Now some women — and men — have taken to Facebook to protest this sentiment. And some are doing so in a pretty unproductive way. More »
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Stop the presses! A hip hop/R&B artist's lyrics is raising some hackles over its treatment of women! More »
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College ladies, you know how sometimes you fill your birth control prescriptions at your student health center? Well, turns out you're taking up space that should be reserved for people with more important problems. Allow a fellow student to mansplain it to you. More »
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When a woman posted about her sexual assault on Reddit, she enraged doubters, who eventually convinced her to post video "proof" of the crime. Her experience says a lot about the strange — and sometimes sexist — culture of the site. More »
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Before Kreayshawn, there was the white girl covering hip hop hits on YouTube. Or, more precisely, there were many. More »
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It makes me cringe when I hear a straight guy embark on a long tirade about how he could never possibly have sex or be intimate with another guy.  I sigh and think to myself, "Not this again. What an asshole. You don't like dick. I get it!" More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5798258&view=rss&microfeed=true It's happening over at Spin, starting with the question of whether rap has become less misogynistic and R&B more so. May we suggest giving the Willis Test a shot in this one? More »
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On Tavis Smiley's show last last week, Ashley Judd admitted that she could have chosen her words more carefully when she declared hip-hop to be anti-woman. In her new memoir, she writes of being asked to join a charity campaign: More »
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Today, select members of SNL were on Oprah and when asked about whether she felt she was a ground-breaker for women in comedy Jane Curtin got real, opening up about the show's hostile environment for women—particularly women writers—which was perpetuated by John Belushi, who said "Women are just fundamentally not funny." At table reads he would not read jokes above a whisper if they were written by women. Curtin said, "He felt as if it were his duty to sabotage pieces that were written by women." More »
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After last week's article—"Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra"—likened feminism to actual boner-killing, we've noticed that Psychology Today has been particularly hard on the women's movement over the past few years, blaming it for everything from unhappiness to sexual harassment to just plain evilness. Here, we collect some of its greatest hits of He-Man Woman Haters posts. More »
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams' blog post comparing women to children begging for candy may be gone, but it is certainly not forgotten. More »
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Does it matter if the distributor of a charming guide to the "targeting" of women, with or without their consent, was actually a registered member of a fraternity? And whether or not the document was an original? Some think it does. More »
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The above poster appeared at the University of Waterloo last month, plastered over the faces of female student government candidates. The text reads, "The brightest woman this Earth ever created was Marie Curie, The mother of the nuclear bomb. You tell me if the plan of women leading men is still a good idea !" This was only the beginning of a bizarre series of stunts by an anonymous misogynist who has yet to be apprehended. More »
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Here are some rules about how to be a girl in a boys' club. This works for any world you're in or want to be in. Pretty much everything in the world is still a boys' club. More »
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In the wake of this year's mostly craptastic round of Super Bowl ads, companies would like you to know that 1) They are smarter and more ironic than you and/or 2) Their external ethnic advisory board told them they're not racist. Oh, never mind then. More »
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Bobby Franklin, a (gasp!) Republican from Georgia, has introduced a bill to change the civil and criminal codes of the state so that victims of stalking, rape, and domestic violence must be called "accusers," not victims. Oh my fucking god. More »
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Yet another Facebook "hot list" recently made the rounds at a high school — and its author's scary rantings show the connection between such lists and outright woman-hating. More »
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A female bank teller refused to grant a request that went against policy. Jared Lee Loughner told her "she should not have any power." Loughner also wrote creepy postings about rape and shot a congresswoman in the head. Blame misogyny? More »
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Tucson shooter Jared Loughner's postings on online gaming forums reveal a disappointment with life that turned violent and misogynist. More »
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Babs was on Larry King Live last night, discussing her first book—My Passion for Design—about her hands-on remodeling of her Malibu estate. One contractor got mad over her micromanagement and perfectionism, which she chalked up to "annoying" sexism. More »
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I'm often told that I'm "like a guy,"and I'm expected to receive it as a compliment. Why? More »
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Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was on the Today show this morning, and Al Roker asked him about the subtitle of his book, Here's The Situation, which includes the words "a guide to creeping on chicks" and "avoiding grenades." More »
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California's gubernatorial race has momentarily shifted from Brown vs. Whitman to slur vs. slur. Go go Oppression Olympics! More »
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When it comes to stereotypical icons of sexism, football players are up there with frat boys and Christina Hoff Summers. But new research published in the Journal of Gender Studies suggests their womanizing, homophobic reputation may not be wholly deserved. More »
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Last night on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper asked Eminem about "allegations" that he's a misogynist and homophobe. Eminem claims he was "attacked"—over his violent lyrics toward women and gays—because of the color of his skin. More »
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A white guy invented Facebook. But in Mark Zuckerberg's real-life world, women did more than give blowjobs, and black people said more than "Is this guy bothering you?" So why does The Social Network so badly want to pretend otherwise? More »
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Greg Sgammato wrote a piece mocking "fat chicks" (or, in his words, "elephants" and "wildebeests") for the Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Now you can see the face of this witty social critic — and his News-Letter partner in crime. More »
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The editors of the Johns Hopkins News-Letter have issued an apology for a piece titled "Local Bison Bear All At Psi Kappa Psi Lingerave," noting that it "was deliberately written as a satirical piece." More »
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The editors of the Johns Hopkins News-Letter apparently decided it would be a great idea to start the school year by celebrating misogyny and sexism, posting two heinous articles that center around drinking and "fat chicks." More »
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Here's a fantastic and entertaining example of resistance: in the video below, a Columbia University a cappella group sings Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit."  More »
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Ah, the Craigslist screed. The philosophizing of sages who don't care that their inadvertent audience really only wants a free couch, or an adult encounter, or a cleaning gig. The sociologist in question today has ideas about "women." More »
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A Republican newsletter asked for help getting Rep. Betty Sutton "back in in the kitchen" where she belongs. But we're sure it's a joke, just like how we shouldn't get to vote. More »
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Melissa Gira Grant is a writer and activist who spoke yesterday at a panel on sex work and feminism at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy's 2010 Reproductive Justice Conference. Before she spoke to them, though, she spoke to me. More »
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Just days after Alex Knepper's date rape column, an Indiana University senior has caused a similar stir with his system for "rating girls" from "knockout" down to "turns off even the drunkest of males." More »
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Several pictures have surfaced of Lindsay Lohan attending professional cum-squiggle artist Perez Hilton's birthday party, and though Lohan's appearance is sure to raise rumors and questions, the one I'd like answered is this: what the f**k was she doing there? More »
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