While the tragedy in Isla Vista has sparked vehement debates about gun laws, mental illness treatment, and misogyny, the reality is that solving all of them wouldn't have prevented his crimes.
Indie Rock singer Neko Case not so graciously turned down Playboy's misogynistic "compliment" on Twitter. And now the internet is call her a c*nt.
The longer this myth about pedophiles persists, the more difficult it is to protect children.
Not only is modeling camp irritating because they’re in business to give a lot of girls the false hope that they can be models and help destroy their self-esteem, but also because it’s very expensive.
There were some people who expressed sentiments along the lines of, “Being gay is fine but little kids don’t need to see that on TV.” Or as one person put it, “ESPN showing Michael Sam being drafted & his reaction is great & all but showing him kissing his boyfriend on national tv is a bit too far.”
“I know this is going to be controversial,” she says of her statements. Or not controversial enough given conservatives’ widespread appallingly sexist reaction to the announcement of Chelsea Clinton’s pregnancy.
If you hate global biotech corporate beast Monsanto — and as well you should — nonprofit Food Democracy Now! has a clever way for you to fight back against the corporation.
It appears that Christ has become incredibly industrious in the last few years, given the ramped-up number of blessings people cite on Facebook daily. Does being backstage at the Oscars really qualify as a religious experience? Even a celebrity favoriting a person's tweet is enough to trigger thankfulness to Jesus these days.
If you’re a regular Banter reader, you might have noticed our story, “That Which Will Not Go Away,” aka “10 OkCupid Profile 'Don’ts' to Heed If You Actually Want to Get Laid,” in our trending stories sidebar for lo several months now. But you’re probably unaware that the comments section of the story has been blitzkrieged by spambots probing for valid email addresses with promises of romantic reconciliation with lovers who have cast you aside. I.e., love potions.
This scene occurred in the same episode where the Hound tells Arya Stark that a good, hard-working man who isn’t strong and brutal couldn’t possibly survive another winter. A little boy is told by the man who murdered his mother that he plans to eat her. People are eviscerated and murdered right and left.
They kind of look like something out of one of those Japanese invention books, but despite blogger snickering and criticism that the cyborg glasses developed by a professor at the University of Tsukuba are creepy as all hell, they could become frighteningly useful in the future.
With his parents’ blessing, TJ Edson agreed to answer some questions for us. Here are the very candid things he had to say about his brother, mental illness and the incident at the Boston Marathon:
Dove parent company Unilever has made yet another condescending 'viral video' based on the idea that grown women are as gullible and as obsessed with their looks as 7th graders. Women would find concrete actions on issues like climate change, chemicals in beauty products, and corporate responsibility far more inspiring than emotionally manipulative montages.
Think Progress attacked Brad Pitt's proposed movie about the Steubenville/Anonymous rape case. When the film hasn't been made yet, is it fair to criticize it?
If you’ve seen the James Franco/Seth Rogan and Muppets parodies, you probably know that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West will grace Vogue magazine’s April cover, she in a bridal-y strapless, he with his arms lovingly encircling/strategically placed over her hips.
"Knox didn't ask to be outed. She was thrust into the public eye and chose to respond and stick up for herself. As she wrote for xojane, 'If people are going to talk about you, you might as well control the conversation and use it to start a dialogue, which in this case is about the abuses we inflict on sex workers.'
Lady Gaga’s Thursday night SXSW performance at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin, reportedly a benefit show for her beleaguered charity Born This Way Foundation, was vomit-inducing for more reasons than one might expect.
Black Annie critics compare this travesty to a white actor playing Martin Luther King Jr. or Anne Frank in a biopic and one likened it to seeing Roots with an all-white cast.
Last week, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey announced that the company's 3-year-old goal to obtain nonprofit status had been realized. Does this mean we have to stop making fun of the event?
Last week, student leaders at the University of California, Santa Barbara, passed a resolution urging officials to institute mandatory trigger warnings on class syllabi. Salon.com then weighed in with a typically reactionary and inane response to a topic verging on the ridiculous.
Is it the worst thing a corporation ever did? No. Is it lame and cheap? Yes.
The new "Bros-Before-Hos' app can apparently detect “noBro zones,” such as the wifi in your girlfriend's apartment, and won't send automated texts while you're there. It also shuts itself off if you've sent her any real-time texts too short a time ago, lest it arouse girlfriend suspicion. Sounds ridiculous, but it is even real?
The Jesus genre of film is nothing new, but two new titles hopefully are not carving out a new niche in Christian movies: the persecution propaganda flick.
