Photo: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison My father has been in law enforcement for most of his life. When he wasn't a cop with the Miami-Dade Police Department, he was a cop with the Broward County Sheriff's Office or the executive director of Broward County's Crime Stoppers organization. ...read more
Photo: Mel Evans/AP It seems almost like a waste of time to really tear into Jezebel. The site basically operates as a perpetual feminist umbrage machine and no criticism, no matter how legitimate, will affect the way it comports itself or make it think twice the next time ...read more
The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which controls the area in and around Mosul in northern Iraq, is denying it ordered that all females between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, contrary to earlier reports. Although FGM predates Islam, Muhammad is ...read more
"Experience a clever twist on past Disney films that teaches girls everywhere they don't need a prince to rescue them, because all men are disgusting loners, greedy murderers, or lying manipulative power-hungry sociopaths. Happy now, Jezebel?" -- The "Honest Trailer" for Frozen ...read more
I'll probably hear it for this -- and by "it" I mean cries of white male privilege and the ever-popular "mansplaining" -- but so be it. Here's my new favorite feminist media neologism: whorephobia. I've seen this appear several times over the past couple of days, all part of the ...read more
When I was a senior in high school I had a sex-ed class taught by a priest. There are so many possible jokes in response to this and so much room to express bewilderment that I'm just going to forgo all of it and let you ponder the implications for yourself. Suffice it to say, ...read more
Here's something that I think deserves to be seen far and wide. Last week on FX's Totally Biased, host W. Kamau Bell kicked off a new segment on the show that will, as he puts it, pit comics against feminists. While anyone who's read my stuff over the past year or so knows that ...read more
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A popular comic is under fire in a heated controversy involving the use of rape jokes in stand-up comedy. This probably sounds familiar if your short-term memory goes at least as far back as last July, when Daniel Tosh faced a giant ...read more
By White Guy of a Certain Age Chez Pazienza: I'm sure you probably already know this, but it's a really tough time to be a white guy of a certain age right now. Everything's just so upside-down and nothing's how it used to be, with white guys of a certain age lumbering across the ...read more