Jennifer Aniston and the Celebrity Shame Cycle
In an op-ed published on the Huffington Post Tuesday, Jennifer Aniston addressed the ongoing speculation that she was pregnant:
Why, Exactly, Are We So Into Policing What Pregnant Women Eat?Â
The recent hyper-scrutiny of newly pregnant supermodel Chrissy Teigen proves there is nothing too inconsequential to be tsked tsked over when you are with child, down to the nutritional content of a single bowl of blended cereal.
Jilted Woman Warns the World About Her Ex With Tragic/Awesome Flyers
A woman in the Lefferts Gardens area of Brooklyn has been posting long, rant-y flyers about her ex, colorfully warning other women to stay away from him.
2013: The Year in Shaming
2013 was The Year of a lot of things. It was the year of Beyoncé (again). It was the year of royal babies, Jennifer Lawrence, white girls twerking, teens sending dick picks and Robin Thicke's emergence as a feminist scholar (again). It was — as concluded by Rembert Browne's sprawling and thorough "Who Won 2013" bracket
Short-Shorts-Wearing Dad Pushes Dangerous 'Modest Is Hottest' Agenda
The weight of the entire world's sexuality is on the shoulders of teen girls. Or is it their legs? It seems like all day long we in a frenzy over their dark magical powers. Do they know what they are doing? Are they doing it ON PURPOSE? Because from the Salem witch trials to the modern day devil harlots, girls have…
Jenny McCarthy Playboy Backlash Toes Line Between Assertions Of Ageism (Good) And MILF-Shaming (Bad)
So that Jenny McCarthy "39 and SHE'S STILL GOT IT!!!11" Playboy spread released this month has been getting a lot of play since the new issue hit the stands. On the cover, she wears fingerless black fishnet gloves and little else. To the lower left hand corner, incongruously, is the smaller story "A Night In Paris…
A Complete Guide to Shaming and Snarking
It's surprisingly tough to keep track of all the stuff that can offend people. But we learn as we go — every day is a teachable moment. As such, we've been keeping a running list of all of the -snarking and -shaming we've been accused of over the past year; it is our hope that in sharing it, we can help make the world…
Do Skimpy Clothes Force Men's Brains to Objectify Women?
Science can't shut up about how men can't help the fact that they sometimes seem like they might be thinking with their penises because their brains force them to objectify women. New research suggests that they're actually not objectifying you per se; they're just re-imagining what sort of brain you possess. And the…
