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When this father discovered his daughter's bratty rant about him on Facebook, he decided to make a rant of his own. The only difference is his (which he thankfully decided to videotape) ended with him shooting a round of hollow-point bullets into his entitled kid's laptop to ensure that she doesn't do it again. Texas forever. More »
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"The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming." More »
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Two big things jumped out at me when I saw Vanity Fair's new June cover. The Katy Perry profile is cover-teased as, "There's Even More Than Meets The Eye!" but, I must admit, what I saw first was her ample Meets The Eye. And then there was the Hillary Clinton cover line. "HILLARY CLINTON'S THIRD ACT: DEALING WITH OBAMA, SAVING THE WORLD, SNEAKING BROWNIES." More »
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Reader Becky Sayers writes, "I found this on 10 yr old [daughter] Eliza's bulletin board this morning in her room— when I asked her about it, she said it was an "editorial" she wrote last night after looking at the miniboden children's clothing catalog." With permission from both mother and daughter, we happily share this editorial with you. More »
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The other night, the most disgusting thing that has ever befallen me in a bathroom happened. More »
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Johns Hopkins University has emerged in the past year as an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. Between "satire" on "fat chicks" and musings on emasculating women, scarcely a month has gone by without word of new journalistic hijinx. But today's a new level of achievement entirely. More »
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They promise to tone, transform, fix, and whittle your body, but all women's fitness magazines really do is help you lose all that flabby self-esteem you've spent years accumulating. How are they bullshit? Let us count the ways. More »
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Let's face it: Hiring Jennifer Lopez to judge a singing contest is a joke. More »
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Fuck 2010. This year fucking sucked. More »
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The words "Julian Assange" have become rhetorical poison, quickly turning even sane conversations into bilious screaming matches. Here's why the discussion about him has gotten so goddamned awful. More »
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Over the years, my mother has dispensed strong opinions on any number of issues, from the "smirking" Captain and Tenille to the importance of a drink at 5. But there's one piece of advice that trumps them all. More »
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Many women still struggle for equal pay, but every media outlet is suddenly eager to tell us we've gotten too big for our britches. Here's why all those articles on successful women and supposed "role reversals" are missing the point. More »
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Tweets Sarah Palin, "Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book 'America by Heart' from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?" With all due respect, this is disingenuous bullshit. More »
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At a recent event, Gayle King threw her weight behind NYC schools chancellor nominee (and former boss) Cathie Black, calling the former Hearst head "scary smart." Fine, but can we get a moratorium on that phrase, please? More »
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While it's unwise to take the rants of Britain's gem columnist Liz Jones at face value, we worry that she might have a point when it comes to men under 40. More »
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I won't be voting in today's elections. The reason: I made a mistake. But so did my state, and thirty-nine others. More »
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So here's the deal: One time Christine O'Donnell got drunk and made out with a dude. They didn't do it, BUT STILL. More »
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A few days before Maura Kelly, a blogger for Marie Claire, published a piece called "Should Fatties Get A Room?" we received an email asking why this site "glorifies" obesity. More »
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I'm not saying we have to be sworn enemies. But as yet another cake-pie hybrid lands in our inbox, I feel it's my duty to inform all you dessert Utopians that...it's the League of Nations of desserts. More »
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There's a reason we're fighting to keep this unretouched image of Aniston on our website. And it's not just because we like her freckles. More »
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This week I've been told—via several internet platforms—that I'm fat. I'm not offended by the insult. I'm offended by the idea that it's is a surefire way to hurt a woman's feelings. Can't you be more creative, internet? 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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Michelle's 19th child was born four months premature. Michelle had gall-bladder problems and a serious case of preeclampsia while pregnant, yet says: "Even knowing that we went through the challenge that we did, we would do it again." Please. Don't. More »
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Jeans have gone from from workwear, to rebelwear, to wear-anywhere. They are the universal empty point around which a wardrobe is calibrated. And while they are manufactured in more sizes, styles, and washes than ever before, jeans shopping is hell. More »
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There's a certain point in a woman's sexual history where she just decides — out of nowhere — that handjobs are just not part of the repertoire anymore. Please reconsider this decision. More »
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Because we are friends on Facebook, I can tell you with authority that today is Antoine de Saint‐Exupéry's birthday. And at the risk of his unfriending me, I can also admit to how much I've always feared Le Petit Prince. More »
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Many are pointing toward Miley Cyrus' "suggestive" dancing, simulated lesbian kiss, and skimpy costumes, as if any of it make intrusive photos of a 17-year-old's crotch admissible. But most irksome is the presupposition that Miley's sexuality doesn't belong to her. More »
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By now you've heard that Sarah Palin's making noise about a "new, conservative feminist movement," a tent big enough to include"Tea Party feminism", "pro-life feminism" and "real feminism" as embodied by the likes of Liz Cheney and Michelle Malkin. More »
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I expect trend pieces to be bad. I expect them to be superficial, hacky, tendentious, filled with irritating neologisms, short-sighted, over-determined, thesis-driven and not truly "reported," and to be built around quotes from the author's own friends. This is journalism. More »
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Yet another supposed expert has taken to a national forum today to announce that women are dumb. But arguments like his aren't just harmless flame-bait: they're an excuse for perpetuating inequality. More »
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Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and then successfully took on the Herculean task of remaking America's world image in the wake of Bush Inc. Apparently, that's just not maverick-y enough for Time. More »
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Indiana high school students had to quit reading Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Wednesday, because administrators were offended by its "sex, violence, and profanity." Here's why this is bullshit. More »
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Okay, Jim Carrey was never my favorite, and I'd wager he wasn't yours either. But his Elin-blaming antics on Twitter this weekend confirmed a longtime suspicion I've had: when it comes to the Internet, some people should consider shutting up. More »
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British kids apparently eat over five pounds of candy each over Easter weekend — but mass tooth decay is only a minor reason to hate this disappointing holiday. More »
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Dear Internet: Pursuant to yesterday's post at Jezebel, I feel I should clarify a few things. More »
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In a profile in today's New York Times, Moby admitted that though he doesn't have Asperger syndrome, he likes to "pretend I do. It makes me sound more interesting." Yeah, no, Moby. It actually makes you sound like a dick. More »
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Jesse James isn't just a despicable idiot because he cheated on his wildly popular wife Sandra Bullock. He's a despicable idiot because, in doing so, he basically offered himself up to America's lynch mob. More »
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Grammy night, many female artists wore very… revealing ensembles. Fun for us, maybe, but some viewers with delicate sensibilities found it necessary to complain to the FCC. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, some emails are online. More »
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While Latoya has already done an excellent job dissecting the truly heinous remarks in John Mayer's recent Playboy interview, there was another aspect of the interview that I think warrants a discussion: namely, that John Mayer is a terrible ex-boyfriend. More »
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If there's one thing to take away from trend pieces regarding women and the Super Bowl, it is that women who don't typically watch football games are really, really stupid and mentally locked somewhere in 1958. More »
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