On Thursday, William Hague, the UK's Foreign Secretary, announced that London will host a global summit next year to demand "justice and respect" for the victims of wartime rape. Oh, and by the way, Angelina Jolie will be co-chairing the event.
Women earn less than men. Our bodies are more confusing (ah! So many tubes and folds!). We can't do as many pull ups. But there's one way in which we're totally better than men, at least according to one prominent forensic psychologist: Murder. GIRL POWER! WE'VE DONE IT!
Torture sequences in games are old news—many major franchises have included it in some capacity, from the classics like Metal Gear Solid to some more recent big titles like Grand Theft Auto and Splinter Cell
Unfortunately, it sometimes takes an act (or several acts
Nigella Lawson's soon-to-be-ex husband Charles Saatchi announced this weekend that he's divorcing his wife because she didn't make a big fucking show of defending him after a series of horrifying photos of him publicly strangling her made the media rounds a month ago. In his self-pitying statement announcing he was…
Okay, you guys, SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET. It's over. It's run its course. The best thing that's ever going to happen has now happened, so we might as well just go make some s'mores and take a nap (s'more-nap!) and breathe the new summer air and hug all the relatives we haven't seen since 1995 (The Day the AOL Discs…
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned a series of deadly attacks on hospital patients as well as female teachers and students at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University in Pakistan on Saturday, saying that such violence is meant to deter women “from attaining a basic right to education.”
For girls in high school, participating in a team sport may help deter bullying and physical violence, though the fascist camaraderie of athletic cooperation apparently does little to dissuade high school boys from bullying and fighting with each other since popular male sports like football have a way of encouraging…
Social networks' chicken-egg impact on rape culture has been discussed in detail since before the landmark case in Steubenville (and, more recently, a quite similar case in Torrington, Connecticut
A Fresno City College instructor and former city council member is on paid administrative leave after body-slamming a 5'1, 101-pound teenage student for telling him to "piss off, asshole." Based on the half-dozen students and substitute instructor who support the student's account of her attack, this guy should never…
In fact, domestic violence is two-to-four times as prevalent in police officer families as it is in the general population. Yikes.
Speaking on behalf of the Ring The Bell campaign — a movement that calls on men and boys around the world to take a stand and make a promise to act to end violence against women — Sir Patrick Stewart, a consistent and powerful activist for equality, spoke eloquently about what violence against women looks like, and…
This is the most upsetting thing I've reported on in, well, a few days, I guess.
Rob Morrison, the anchor for WCBS-TV's This Morning and News at Noon, is currently in custody for allegedly choking his wife Ashley Morrison, who's an anchor on CBS' MoneyWatch. Ugh.
A kindergartener in Pennsylvania was pulled from her school bus line and suspended after an adult overheard her talk about "shooting" a classmate. The girl was referring, as it turned out, to a Hello Kitty "gun" that blows bubbles.
It's a wide, dangerous, gun-filled forest out there, and you'd be some kind of irresponsible monster to send your child out into it without first outfitting him or her in a found-pound kevlar-threaded vest, undershirt, and backpack, which can be used both as a carry case for social studies books AND as a ballistics…
Finally, the film you've been waiting for: Spring Breakers. In which former Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens join Pretty Little Liars' Ashley Benson strip down for some ominous fun in the sun. In which James Franco does his best Riff Raff. In which Gucci Mane acts. The Harmony Korine-directed flick…
The NRA's callous insensitivity is truly impressive. They remain unwavering in their fanaticism, despite gun massacres that have ravaged the nation. Earlier this week, a month after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, they released
Just in case you were skipping merrily along through the internets this Sunday afternoon, here's something that will deflate your pleasant thought bubble: an eight-year-old girl from London vacationing with her family in Jamaica, was shot and killed after an argument broke out in a rural convenience store.
The National Rifle Association today announced that the answer to gun violence is more guns. Also, less Hollywood and...more guns. Yeah. That should do it. Because if history is any guide, more guns should definitely solve this gun problem.
Still grieving over Sandy Hook? While your tear ducts are still flowing, how about shedding a few empathetic drops for a much broader group of victims: depressed and discombobulated white males. Those who once were heroes, filled with a sense of purpose and place? They're now lost young men, reeling from the rapid…
The midseason finale episode of Scandal that aired last Thursday — titled "Blown Away" — featured a graphic scene of an entire family, including kids, found gunned down in their home. According to the Huffington Post, the video clip was briefly pulled from ABC.com:
In light of last Friday's tragic school shooting, some people are arguing that gun control is just a band-aid, and that access to mental health services in this country is the real problem. But the thing is, if I cut myself, I'm not going to say, "No, no band-aid for me, thanks! It won't heal the wound completely on its …
It would appear that the real-world is sometimes just as icky Sin City, which, you'll remember, featured Nick Stahl as the horrifyingly devious and untouchable Senator's son who can, by virtue of his parentage, get away with abusing young girls. Patrick Moran, the real-world son of Democratic Virginia Rep. Jim Moran,…
Yesterday, Jovan Belcher, a fourth-year linebacker for the Chiefs, shot his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, before killing himself. Today, the team observed a moment of silence before their game against the Carolina Panthers for victims of domestic violence. According the Guardian, there was no mention of Belcher's name …
Another day, another horrific tale of abuse against a young woman. According to the Telegraph, a 15-year-old girl named Geesa was allegedly attacked and killed "earlier this week by two men from the spurned family as she went to collect water from a stream in her village in northern Afghanistan." The men responsible were …
Being the President is a much harder job than I CAN B PRESIDENT Barbie and the movie First Kid make it seem. In fact, one of the occupational hazards of the job are near-constant death threats. And — SURPRISE — the same President who inspires billboards more racist than a cartoon version of Birth of a Nation starring…
A disturbing video has been leaked online in which Lil Reese is seen violently attacking a woman. It quickly went viral, trending on Twitter. Mr. Reese seems pretty unfazed by the bout of bad publicity, with his tweets making it clear that he's unapologetic about the incident, and blamed the negative attention on…
"Gotta go, something's exploding over here." That's how Anthony had signed off from our Facebook chat session the last time we had talked. He was deployed in Afghanistan, and we had been typing back and forth about how life was going.
How was life going? It could be better, I told him. I'd been broken up with by a man…
Just like at Christmas and New Year's, reports show that domestic violence rates escalate during the month of the World Cup Finals. One would assume that increased consumption of alcohol—which is socially accepted and expected at both the holidays and major sporting events—could be the impetus behind such fights, but…
