Many of your editors loved the Anne of Green Gables series when they were younger — and, really, who didn't? She was…
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Mahbooba Ahadgar is a runner from Afghanistan, the third Afghan woman ever to qualify for the Olympics and the only…
Back in the "good" old days, "Charlie" was a convenient plot device to turn a gender stereotype (teacher and…
Amy Jacobsen was a reporter for the NBC-affiliate in Chicago. She was fired after the CBS-affiliate broadcast video showing her at the home of Craig Stebic (a "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife) in a bikini while covering him for the station. She's now suing the station claiming that airing the tape… Read more
Perhaps you remember when, two months ago, Australian police shut down an exhibit of artist Bill Henson's work -…
Attention D.C.-based Jezebels! Megan will be hosting a commenter meet-up tonight at the Wonderland Ballroom (1101…
- There's probably some economic metaphor to be had in a story about 13 people being trampled by bulls in Pamplona,…
Many, many sad things can be said about the costs of the Iraq War to both the people of Iraq and those of us in America. One of those things was said by Andrea Bruce at the Washington Post today in her article about the group home for the deserted grandmothers of Baghdad: "Before the war, when the home was opened,… Read more
When Congress and the President announced the economic stimulus plan ($600 for almost everyone, we think!), I'm…
In a completely unsurprising and yet still intensely nauseating development in the ongoing civil strife in Zimbabwe,…
Hey, well, so, like, I know we haven't spoken in a long time. Frankly, your wife is so cool and I'm more than a…
When convicted sex offender Louie Herrera broke into the home of 41-year-old Linda Dodson and her 71-year-old mother in Cypress, California last week, it's hard to know what he planned to do. What he did do was first attack Linda and then her mother, who smelled beer on his breath and decided to offer him one. He… Read more
Rosa Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92 in Detroit, having founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, to which she left her almost all of her estate and effects. As MSNBC is reporting, those effects are set to go on the auction block at Guernsey's, which is currently trying to find a buyer to… Read more
A lot of electronic ink has been generated this week talking about the story that 3 Welsh Parliamentarians…
Men are simple creatures, and yet it is they who by necessity run the world and so we must stop distracting them…
A recent study by the UK employment law firm Peninsula shows that 80 percent of 2,300 men surveyed had been subject…
The UN estimates that 1 in 10 pregnancies in the Arab world ends in abortion, despite the fact that in most…
This is a T-shirt, one of 12 currently available for sale on Amazon.com, for that extra special rape-y Christian boy in your life. Click on the picture to read it's slogan in all it's hateful, rape-promoting glory: "Anti-Abortion! But Pro-Date-Rape." Then click here to file a complaint against the (multiple) sellers… Read more
In a more depressing sign of the impending economic collapse than the loss of 600 Starbucks, The Smoking Gun reports that a 34-year-old Kentucky woman, Angela Eversole, has been arrested on charges of prostitution after agreeing to providing sexual services to Kenneth Nowak (also arrested) for cash and $100 gas card.… Read more
If Gail Sheehy's article Hillaryland at War is to be believed, Hillary Clinton did face a ton of sexism — from…