A journalist says she was "completely dehumanised" on stage during an Xbox One Event at Eurogamer Expo 2013, by a comedian who made degrading jokes about her gender. Eurogamer Expo says it is investigating the matter.
Less than three days since the controversy surrounding DC Comics’ refusal, we have a great non-explanation explanation from the DC brass about why the publisher refused to allow characters Kate Kane (Batwoman) and her partner, Gotham City police officer Maggie Sawyer, to marry each other. You ready? (I mean, it’s so…
The GOP faithful, ever ready to storm the moral high ground and erect a glittering, priapistic citadel, jumped all over NBC’s yet-to-be-scripted Hillary Clinton teleplay like a gaggle of magpies who’ve caught a glimpse of a shiny Cracker Jack ring. “Aha, liberal scum!” cried RNC Reince Priebus, wearing his ceremonial…
There's this awful website run by an idiot/swarm of idiots that lists people who used to be vegan and aren't now and is all "look at these ex-vegan sellouts!" in hopes of shaming those people into, uh, becoming vegan again? Because nothing says "we welcome you back with open arms!" like "you're a fucking asshole and…
A man in Arizona may be forced to take down the nine-foot, hatchet-wielding gargoyle statue standing in his otherwise empty front yard because his neighbors have complained about the gargoyle’s magnificent thighs, buttocks, and penis, all clearly visible to the casual passerby. That’s right, folks — gargoyles can be…
A little less than two months after firing abusive men’s basketball coach Mike Rice, Rutgers’ athletic department once again finds itself having to do a public relations shuffle with news that its brand new, reform-minded athletic director may have abusively berated members of the University of Tennessee’s women’s…
A drawing, which was so controversial it had to be covered up, is now on full display at a library in New Jersey. So, why would the Newark Library display an art work that depicts oral sex?
I love Instagram and I also enjoy sharing pictures of the young ones in my life. My niece cuddling my dogs? Check. My nephew posing as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Done it. Me and six-year-old niece taking a topless bubble bath together? Yeah, no.
Anyone who watches the Walking Dead with only a dilettante's diligence might not know that (SPOILER MINEFIELD AHEAD) Episode 7 of the third season contained a pretty nasty surprise: a threatened rape. The recap, via Rolling Stone's Beth Schwartz:
A seven-year-old girl in Oregon suffering from leukemia may soon be the focal point of a renewed debate about the need to regulate medical marijuana. Mykayla Comstock, stricken with a particularly aggressive strain of leukemia, is subjected to intensive chemotherapy treatments, which have the unfortunate side effects…
Election cycles can create some pretty tense exchanges between the opposing fans of our two-party political football games, so we shouldn't be all that surprised to learn that a recent Mitt Romney t-shirt kerfuffle at Philadelphia high school has culminated in an allegedly snarky teacher being investigated by the…
The New York City Department of Education is implementing a particularly progressive pilot program in 13 schools across the city — students as young as 14 at those schools will now have access to Plan B emergency contraception. The program is part of a wider effort to lower the rate of teen pregnancy, as some 7,000…
Cindy Lee Garcia, an actress who starred in the unfortunately-infamous Innocence of Muslims, is suing both the film's producer and YouTube, claiming that her involvement in the low-rent, Islamaphobic flick has made her life pretty unpleasant.
The University of Minnesota-Duluth is attracting an undue amount of finger-wagging for hosting and providing a $4,000 honorarium to California-based photographer Loren Cameron so that he can present "Transgender Images," which (graphically) chronicles his physical transformation from a woman to a man.
A homeowner's association is a lot like the Wu Tang Clan in that it ain't nothin' to fuck with, an inconvenient truth that a little girl from Georgia named Aubree is learning pretty early in life. According to Augusta's NBC affiliate, Aubree's grandmother, Becky Rogers-Peck, ran afoul of her homeowners association not…
Things are going predictably poorly for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, saw about 2,000 fewer participants in this year's Susan G. Komen Northeast Ohio Race for the Cure than last year's pre-controversy version. The organization had guessed that, ever since it decided to…
A fitness studio in British Columbia called Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness is offering some non-sexy pole dancing classes for children, which has caused less of a stir than you might imagine if only because studio owner Kristy Craig made an admirable effort to convince parents that in no way was she trying to recruit…
After a group of Chinese artists donated (probably, in retrospect, for a good laugh) a sculpture of a headless, jointless woman taking a picture of her exposed breasts called "Accept or Reject" to the Overland Park Arboretum in Kansas, residents in the area expressed all of the feelings. The statue was obscene! It…
So. You say you're in the market for a new television show, eh? Well, if a new ABC project comes to fruition, you might be in for the literary TV adaptation of the half-decade — the network is, according to The Hollywood Reporter, developing Finn & Sawyer, a reimagining of everyone's favorite duo of racist,…
By now, you've probably heard the crazy, impossible, holy-shit-the-Olympics-really-are-cool news that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen obliterated the women's 400-meter Individual Medley and, for 50 whole meters, even outpaced steely-eyed swimmer and recent gold medalist Ryan Lochte. The only problem with this…
