Do you believe that women should have access to contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies? Do you believe teens should be taught comprehensive sexual education in school to prevent unwanted pregnancies?.... To continue reading this article, please go here. As a Banter Member ...read more
In 1772, Phillis Wheatley was tried in the city of Boston for writing poetry. It wasn't the content of her poems that they objected to; it was the fact that she was a black woman, and a slave (since the North had not yet abolished slavery). The white men who tried her were ...read more
Every now and then, a new article (or a repost of an old one) makes the rounds on social media discussing how liberals are more likely to unfriend people over politics both online and in the real world. Usually the context of the post is to show how "intolerant" the left is but ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Republicans have a demographic problem. No, not the one about blacks and Latinos and, no, not the one about Baby Boomers dying off. This is a new one and potentially even more lethal to the long term prospects of the GOP... To continue reading this article, ...read more
While we're focused on the big ticket items like the Mueller probe and Michael Cohen's impending polonium poisoning, it's important to keep track of all the other horrible things Trump is doing if for no other reason than to keep conservatives from claiming they were innocent ...read more
In the 2016 campaign, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criticized for...well, everything, but in particular for her remarks that half of Donald Trump's voters could be thrown into the "basket of deplorables" for their racism and misogyny. She wasn't wrong - look at ...read more
Failed presidential candidate and notorious racist Rudy Giuliani reportedly insulted Hillary Clinton about her weight at a Trump fundraiser in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend. Reported Axios: On Friday night, President Trump entertained around 250 Republican ...read more
This is not a story about Aziz Ansari harassing or assaulting me. This is not a story blaming “Grace,” the woman accusing Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct. This is a story intended to be part of a larger, more complicated conversation that is far from binary, a place my younger ...read more
Just today, Young Turks founder and head anchor Cenk Uygur was called out for a series of misogynistic blog posts he wrote in the early 2000s. These posts included complaints about not getting laid enough (“It seems like there is a sea of tits here, and I am drinking in tiny ...read more
Ben Cohen, the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Banter, does not allow us to write verbalizations like "LOL" or "Bwahahaha!" in our articles because this is a high class establishment and I totally respect that. Despite this prohibition, after reading this article from Salon, ...read more
The Banter Long Read: This article might get me booted out of the man club, but knowing the horror stories that have been injected into the world by the latest series of all-male sexual predators, I'm not sure I want to be a member despite the fact that I'm happy with my ...read more
(SATIRE WARNING!) Yesterday morning they emerged ready. Millions of Americans headed to the polls to cast their votes. For most it was a day like any other, but for some, misogynists and bigots, Judgement Day had arrived in the environs of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the ...read more
Americans and the American media only seem to grasp a tragedy, problem, disaster or disease when it happens to a celebrity. I guess we can’t help it. We’re just narrow-minded imbeciles who require a larger-than-life figure through which to experience human emotion vicariously, ...read more
My boy, As I write this, we'll be expecting you in roughly four months time. We're very excited to meet you and will do our best to give you the very best start in life. Don't worry too much about anything, we've got you covered for the first 18 years or so, and your job is to ...read more
Breitbart.com is outraged by Hollywood rape culture in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, so outraged in fact that they've started a 'Livewire' on the front page of their site to highlight stories about women suffering in the industry: Coming from the internet cesspool ...read more
by Kate Harveston Has there, in recent memory, been a company which has fallen from grace as spectacularly as Uber after such a swift ride to the top? It was supposed to be the fresh face, the harnesser of technologies, that would deliver the world’s nations from the ...read more
In the latest employee scandal at Fox News, it was revealed by the Huffington Post that Eric Bolling, co-host of “The Five,” was recently suspended from the network for sending lewd text messages to colleagues. This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone vaguely ...read more
Sometimes it helps to take a break from Trump Trump Trump all the time and remind ourselves just how rancid conservative ideology truly is: North Carolina is the one state where the law explicitly says you cannot revoke consent once it's given. A bill that would remove this ...read more
It's hard to understand the right's hysterical hatred of feminism in general, and women like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren specifically, without understanding the Men's Rights movement. In a nutshell, it's the gender equivalent of white nationalism; an entire worldview ...read more
Republicans are about as subtle as a brick these days and they've already signaled how they think they can win the 2018 midterms with the disastrously unpopular slow motion car crash they've hitched their wagon to: Run against Elizabeth Warren because ovaries and breasts make ...read more
Well, that was fast. One of the more interesting facets of Trump's election is how quickly Republicans have dropped much of the pretense they use to sucker right-wing voters. First they rushed to repeal Obamacare to give the rich a massive tax break on top of the massive tax ...read more
On Wednesday night during the final presidential debate, Donald Trump called Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton "a nasty woman," and now liberals on the internet are trolling him for it in the best way possible. The nasty exchange occurred when Hillary Clinton responded to a ...read more
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump announced to the world that he was running for president of the United States and in the same speech called Mexicans rapists and criminals. When the day was over, the Republican base was cheering for their new leader. Now, with just four weeks left ...read more
On Friday afternoon, a bombshell shook the political world in the form of a leaked 2005 audio recording of Donald Trump telling former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush that he sexually assaults women. In the audio, Trump can be heard saying that he tried to "fuck" Entertainment ...read more
At the beginning of August, Paul Krugman predicted that Donald Trump's bid for the White House would end in a train wreck: Krugman, not having bought in to the media's Trump narrative ("He'll pivot any second now and act more presidential! We promise!"), knew that Trump would be ...read more
Last night, Donald Trump spent hours freaking out over Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe winner that he fat-shamed in 20XX. Not content to continue attacking just her weight, Trump threw slut-shaming into the mix as well. In case you've been in a coma all week, Hillary Clinton ...read more
Monday night's debate was a ego-bruising smackdown for a man who is essentially a walking, talking, unrestrained ego. And like most egomainiacs, Trump is already plotting his revenge on mean ol' Hillary for publicly humiliating him by being more prepared that he was. His ...read more
Donald Trump's grotesque sexism is perhaps most disqualifying aspect of his presidential candidacy, and Hillary Clinton made him pay for it last night in no uncertain terms. Specifically, Clinton took Donald Trump to task for humiliating one of his former Miss Universe ...read more
The Melania Trump plagiarism scandal actually touched a nerve on me. After The Donald’s wife was caught having lifted a section of text from a 2008 Michelle Obama address, Melania explained it away by saying that she’d simply taken inspiration a little too far. “A person she has ...read more
In response to the criticism Donald Trump has been facing over his revoltingly sexist comments about Hillary Clinton using the "women card" to gain popularity, fellow idiot white male conservative Rush Limbaugh put forward what has to be the most idiotic defense of his best ...read more
Just as President Obama used the "black card" to win the White House in 2008, according to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is apparently now using the "women's card" to take it in 2016. “I think the only card she has is the women’s card. She has got nothing else going,” said ...read more
WARNING: The following article contains disturbing and graphic content. On Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, and just a few days prior to International Women's Day, moderate Islamic journalist Raheel Raza noted that more than 500,000 girls are at risk for what's known as ...read more
In the first few weeks of 2015, we have been reminded of just how far back in time religious extremists would like to set back the progress that humankind has made. Even in celebrating unity against the terrorists who attacked French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, an ...read more
Just the other day the thought crossed my mind: a year from right now, we'll be ass-deep in the presidential primary debates -- the seemingly countless televised cattle-calls in which each of the five-dozen-or-so hopefuls from each party will take their best cheap-shots at ...read more
If you're a public figure who has at his center a set of truly rotten beliefs, there's a pretty good chance you've found ways to mask them so that you can move about the world without the risk of becoming a pariah. You can use verbal misdirection -- dog whistle words and phrases ...read more
Yesterday afternoon, a meme began circulating among far-right trolls on Twitter. Evidently, someone with way too much free time on his hands read my article about Erick Erickson's criticism of Hillary Clinton's age and, consequently, her alleged "stretched back" face, and then ...read more
Via Media Matters, Wall Street Journal Editor James Taranto wrote in his weekly column that if both a rapist and his victim are drunk, they share equal blame. No, I'm not making that up. What is called the problem of "sexual assault" on campus is in large part a problem of ...read more
Yes, the headline is intentionally obnoxious because it's the only way to treat someone who thinks it's hilarious to tweet crapola like this: "I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!" ...read more
You just can't make this crap up. Today on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh, who's been married four times and remains childless, insisted that the Democratic Party is turning women into "abortion machines." The discussion circulated around how, specifically, the GOP can pull an ...read more
The modern conservative movement officially looks like that Three Stooges short in which Moe, Larry and Curly try to fix the plumbing. The modern right-wing has attained new heights of clownishness -- it's utterly clueless, rudderless and disconnected with both reality and basic ...read more
