Welcome back to Jezebel’s once-dormant, now revitalized Pissing Contest! Each week, we’ll pose a crucial question to you, the reader, in the hope that you will enlighten us with your own experiences in the comments. Then we’ll share those mutual mortifications (or whatever they may be) and keep it going until we know…
Everything is stupid, and so are we. Welcome to Jezebel’s Stupidest Summer Ever, a season-long celebration of our worst, most idiotic thoughts and opinions.
The O.C. premiered on August 5, 2003, a simpler time in which we had flip phones and layered t-shirts and the idiot in the White House didn’t have access to Twitter. Today it turns 15, so if it were a person, it too could learn what I learned as a high-schooler who treated The O.C. as gospel: everything on this show…
A high school valedictorian claims she was censored when her mic was cut off whilst referencing an alleged sexual assault during a graduation speech.
At least eight people have died and “several” more have been injured in a mass shooting early Friday morning at high school in Santa Fe, Texas. KTRK News reports the suspect, a student, is currently in police custody. Another person has been detained.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the fuckery committed regularly by certain elected representatives.
A transgender student’s senior photo has been cut out of the yearbook just two weeks before its release, due to a school dress code violation that doesn’t actually exist, ThinkProgress reports.
When Ithaca High School announced they were putting on a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, many students believed the role of Esmeralda, a Roma woman, would go to a student of color. Instead a white student was cast, students objected, and the play was pulled. And now those same student activists are being…
The Hollywood Reporter disclosed on Thursday that a mural painted by James Franco for the high school he attended has been effaced amid growing criticism over sexual misconduct allegations against the Disaster Artist auteur.
Throughout my teen years, I went to a small K-12 school in Kentucky where the bulk of my peers wore more-or-less the same kind of thing, had more-or-less the same kind of hair, and attended my bat mitzvah with the ginger politeness of child snorklers encountering their first manta rays. Being a somewhat overeager…
When I was a teen, all I wanted was to not be one anymore. I was disturbingly shy, my body had lumps that I had not yet figured out how to dress (will I ever?), all I wanted to do was kiss and listen to Fiona Apple in my car.
In the age-old debate over whether boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, whilst girls go to college to get more knowledge, warring boy-girl bathroom notes have sparked newsworthy discourse in a Canadian high school.
A high school in Ohio invited some VIPs to graduation this year—a trio of sisters who attended long ago, all three of them more than a hundred years old.
Okay jokers, listen up. Maybe you think dressing as a psychotic clown seems like jolly good fun. Maybe you see it as some larger commentary on the macabre absurdity of human existence. Maybe you didn’t have to sleep with the lights on for an entire summer after watching Stephen King’s It at a slumber party. I don’t…
In April 2016, 18-year old East Longmeadow, MA high school senior and star athlete David Becker was charged with sexually assaulting two unconscious classmates at a house party. On August 15, Becker received two years probation in what sounds like yet another case of sexual assault ending in nothing more than a slap…
Following the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report last week on Phillips Exeter Academy’s bizarre mishandling of an alleged sexual assault, over 1,000 alumni of the elite prep school signed a letter to the administration pledging to withhold support and donations until the administration “prioritize[s] the issue of sexual…
A classmate who’s suing Fatima Ptacek—the 15-year-old voice of Dora the Explorer—claims the actress called her a “pussy” during a vaping session that got the student kicked out of school.
A high school football player is the first person to be criminally charged in a disturbing incident at Florida’s South Fort Myers High School, where between 16 and 25 male students are alleged to have had sex with a 15-year-old female student in a school bathroom. The girl’s family said last week she was previously a…
Earlier this month, Bishop McDevitt High School earned an “A” in gender policing when school officials demanded that their female students wear dresses to prom. Consequently, when student Aniya Wolf showed up in a tuxedo, she was forbidden entry. On May 21 she attended another school’s prom instead — and she rocked…
