Just to ensure that human beings have unknowingly consumed EVERY kind of animal who sings "Circle of Life" at the beginning of The Lion King, it looks like South Africans have inadvertently been munching on the horse's swaggier cousin, the zebra, as well as kangaroos and giraffes. Sigh. Just when we were getting över
It's clearly time to consider gang rape a world epidemic, but one might wish it didn't have to come at such a high cost: In a tragic echo of the deceased 23-year-old New Delhi public bus gang rape victim, 17-year-old Western Cape girl Anene Booysen was found raped and badly mutilated at a construction site in…
A museum in Johannesburg is being sued over a portrait of South Africa's President that depicts the country's leader naked with his wang hanging out. The artist says the painting, called "The Spear," is a highbrow dick joke, protected free speech under South Africa's constitution. But the owner of the schlong in question …
An ad featuring a white man and a black woman locked in a naked, Trojan-commercial embrace with the tagline, "In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice," has given all the dormant racists in post-apartheid South Africa something to gripe about this week. The ad, which the youth wing of the Democratic Alliance party created …
South African Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba tweeted at another government official, "Let's talk about the slut walk. Now, I wanna attend as an observer. Might get lucky." A spokesman claimed he didn't understand that SlutWalk was about sexual assault awareness. An estimated 2,000 women attended the Cape Town…
Remember that Idaho pharmacist that refused to dispense an anti-uterine bleeding drug until she found out whether or not the woman had an abortion? The same battle is being waged daily around the world, only with access to misoprostol.
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Margaret and I brave the blustery wilds of the celebrity tabloids in search of cozy gossip. This week, we are forever changed by the unholy spectacle that is the "official" Kardashian Christmas portrait.
Of the men who admitted to committing rape, one third did not feel guilty about what they'd done. I wonder what Privilege Denying Dude has to say about this.
[India, October 5: Jennifer Mbali Khwela of South Africa in action on the vault during the Women's Artistic Gymnastics Qualification during day two of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Image via Getty.]
