Police say a man in Florida assaulted his girlfriend and then attacked her pet rabbit after an argument over women's rights. » 7/03/14 1:40pm 7/03/14 1:40pm

Justin Lookadoo, the Christian motivational speaker who said "dateable girls know how to shut up," was arrested this week for public intoxication in Indiana. » 6/26/14 8:30pm 6/26/14 8:30pm

Recently, Lana Del Rey stuck her foot in her mouth and she knew it. She admitted to dreaming of an early death, not a surprising musing of a woman whose music centers around all sorts of dark tropes of early loss and passionate love with difficult men. But the press wasn't so enamored of this interview and she was… » 6/22/14 4:51pm 6/22/14 4:51pm

Oh, the shit that passed for humor in the 90s! As old scans of a 1995 issue of Spy magazine remind us, this includes taking on the name of the gay character from Melrose Place (comedy gold!) and tricking Republican congressmen into assessing the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's hotness in detail. » 6/21/14 4:30pm 6/21/14 4:30pm

Today in gender double standards, I present the not-so-new frontier of sexting. A fresh study found that tween and teen girls are sluts if they do sext and prudes if they don’t. Same judgement, different interface. Yay for the resilience of sexism! » 6/18/14 3:40pm 6/18/14 3:40pm

When you're playing a game as infectiously compelling as Grand Theft Auto V, it can be difficult to take a step back and reflect on all the wanton acts of destruction in which you've participated. » 6/16/14 5:12pm 6/16/14 5:12pm

Two women, a 19-year-old and a 42-year-old, have been found hanging from trees in Uttar Pradesh in the past two days, bringing the number of women hanged in India's most populous state up to four in the last month. In May, two teenage girls were found gang raped and hanged in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh,… » 6/12/14 7:20pm 6/12/14 7:20pm

Finally, some answers from the gaming industry! After years of clamoring from female video game fans who just want their existence acknowledged by the billion-dollar industry they dump all of their money into, one game director is speaking out. It's not that video game designers are sexist—it's not that they don't want » 6/11/14 6:00pm 6/11/14 6:00pm

Call off the protests, stop writing those think pieces, and empty out your bookmark folder of exasperated reaction gifs—we got gender gap in media all wrong. Apparently, the real reason that there's a huge lack in female talking heads on political talk shows is not because of gender bias. It's because women don't… » 5/27/14 2:00pm 5/27/14 2:00pm

Last week, the New York Times' first female executive editor Jill Abramson was unceremoniously fired; it was rumored that a salary dispute was the cause (the New Yorker reports that her starting salary was $84,000 less than that of her male predecessor, which the Times denies). » 5/22/14 6:50pm 5/22/14 6:50pm

A restaurant owner in West Virginia responded to a customer's complaint that servers should "show more skin" in the absolute best possible way—by showing a photo of potato skins on their Facebook page and offering a special to benefit rape victims. » 5/20/14 11:30pm 5/20/14 11:30pm

Were you planning on reading New York Magazine's seven-page profile on Chirlane McCray? Don't waste your time, when you can read the New York Post's totally not cherry-picked attempts to paint Bill DeBlasio's wife as a mother in the Betty Draper mold, starting off with a brilliant headline: "NYC's first lady: I was a… » 5/19/14 3:30pm 5/19/14 3:30pm

In an effort to protest sexism, high school girls and boys in Nantes, a city in western France, wore skirts to school Friday, as well as pins that said things like "I fight sexism, what about you?". » 5/16/14 5:45pm 5/16/14 5:45pm

Women who speak out publicly are all-too-often exposed to virulent and hateful garbage-speech: rape and death threats, harassment, and so on. Predictably, the gun control debates are no exception to this rule. » 5/15/14 6:45pm 5/15/14 6:45pm