A rousing, almost philosophical debate broke out in a recent email thread forwarded to Jezebel from the dads section of the Park Slope [Brooklyn] Parents listserv, when one father posed a significant ethical dilemma to the other dads: Is it okay to see Pearl Jam for the 19th time just four weeks out from when your…
There’s something beautiful about living in America these days, and that’s the blended family. Who doesn’t love getting a whole new set of relatives that they possibly have even less in common with than their original ones! JUST KIDDING, MOM; with death, divorce, and remarriage, come some great new dynamics (once the…
Remember playing dress-up with your dad?
Billy Ray Cyrus feels he is due for a career makeover and is therefore implementing several ingenious edits to his life’s work, according to an interview with Rolling Stone published Friday.
If you think about it, isn’t Rob Lowe kind of like a real life ghost detective? Think harder.
When we aggregate, we seek to bring something new to a story. But there are times when an Omaha man finds a bunch of pot brownies, eats them, gets what a reasonable person would term “too high,” uses reprehensible language towards his cat, and crashes headlong into the stuff of local news headline-legend.
You might be banking on free childcare from your parents when you have kids, but your mom and dad might be thinking something else. According to the New York Times, more and more grandparents are expressing an unwillingness to watch their grandkids every day—granny got plans!
In a piece published Thursday by Glamour, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to feminism and to calling himself a feminist. “It’s important that their dad is a feminist,” Obama wrote, referring to his daughters Sasha and Malia, “because now that’s what they expect of all men.”
Eric Trump, a sobering reminder of gnarled orange trees and ferret-faced little apples, appeared on CBS News on Tuesday morning to defend his father for viciously feuding with the family of a dead soldier. He also found time to underhandedly blame women for getting themselves sexually harassed at work. Whatever else…
Earlier this month, I wrote an article in which I called Ruth Bader Ginsburg my mom, which led me to receive an unexpected number of emails congratulating me on my mother’s service and wisdom; one guy claimed that I had met him at an event. I am here to say that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not my mom,…
On Saturday morning, a man at a Kentucky Cinemark theater turned to confront the child kicking the back of his seat. Things escalated quickly.
On Sunday night, while collecting an award on behalf of her daughter—a young upstart named Beyoncé—at the BET Awards, Tina Knowles thanked her ex-husband Mathew Knowles. “I also want to thank her father, who taught her the business of music,” she said.
While I have been witness to many things at Beyoncé concerts through the years—screaming, fainting, making out, people too tipsy from drink, too tipsy from smoke, too tipsy from the emotional magnitude of seeing their Queen Bey in her natural and unfiltered life form—I can honestly say I have never before seen anyone…
I will start by explaining: I drank too much last Wednesday.
Concerned father Stephen Stewart recently purchased space in Christianity Today to advertise his “virgin” daughter Rachel as the ideal, god-fearing mate. He did not, however, see reason to seek approval from his daughter, or to even let her know.
Tonight Vanessa Hudgens performs the role of iconic bad girl Rizzo in Fox’s production of Grease: Live!. But she does so with the new and painful knowledge that her father, Greg Hudgens, passed away on Saturday night.
The nicest thing I remember doing for my dad when I was 19 was buying him a new set of grilling utensils. He loved that set, and used it to cook delicious meals for years. Wait—come to think of it, someone else gave him those. I guess I don’t remember the nicest thing I did for my dad when I was 19, because the nicest…
Get those flashing alarm emojis on deck because there is some BIG NEWS on the horizon. Young Bieber and the father of Aubrey Drake Graham are collaborating...on something.
One of the most essentialist views about the difference between men and women is that women are naturally better at dealing with feelings. But even though studies have suggested this is false, is it worth pushing men to split this kind of work, just as we have with housework and diaper-changing?
