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An epic tale of three women who happened to witness a stranger attempt to drug another stranger begins with, “GUESS WHO STOPPED A RAPE LAST NIGHT?! THESE GALS!” The incident allegedly took place at Santa Monica’s FIG restaurant on Thursday. When I called FIG to corroborate a viral Facebook post, the woman who answered said…
These days, feminism is on fleek. Touted by everyone from Dove to Barbie to Taylor Swift, consumer capitalism has made feminism sexy, fun, cool—and remarkably easy to claim as your own. But the price tag has been the meaning of the movement itself. Bitch magazine cofounder Andi Zeisler describes this phenomenon as “marketplace feminism.” “Marketplace…
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I am not the first Jewish journalist to experience the onslaught. Julia Ioffe was served up on social media in concentration camp garb and worse after Trump supporters took umbrage with her profile of Melania Trump in GQ magazine. The would-be first lady later told an interviewer that Ms. Ioffe had provoked it. The anti-Semitic…
Ben Shapiro, the 32-year-old former editor-at-large of Breitbart News, doesn’t come across as the sort of conservative who would be cannibalized by his ideological fellow travelers for being too soft. The titles of his books and e-books, for example, suggest solidly right-wing beliefs: Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future, Brainwashed: How…
You might have noticed the launch of the strange and beautiful website TheRabidPuppies.com this week — a loud announcement, accompanied by a photo of shirtless Channing Tatum, that one Chuck Tingle (the self-proclaimed “worlds [sic] greatest author”) had arrived with the intent to “take DARK MAGIC and replace with REAL LOVE for all who kiss…
The credo of Thiel’s venture-capital firm: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Credit Photograph by Robert Maxwell Barrier Status: ‘none’ Peter Thiel pulled an iPhone out of his jeans pocket and held it up. “I don’t consider this to be a technological breakthrough,” he said. “Compare this with the Apollo space…
During one of the Democratic debates last December, as a five-minute commercial break came to a close, there was a problem: Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hadn’t yet returned to the stage. The moderators, forced to abide by the constraints of live television, carried on without her, until, a few minutes later, she resumed her place…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently stated that North Carolina’s new law regarding transgender people and public restrooms is in violation of federal civil-rights law. Credit Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ This month, regional battles over the right of transgender people to access public bathrooms were elevated to national legal theatre. First,…
CREDIT: Kira Lerner Assault weapons on display at the NRA annual meeting. “What’s your edc?” Sitting alone in my Louisville hotel room, working in my pajamas, I pulled up a new internet tab to consult Urban Dictionary. I consider myself proficient in internet speak — I taught many of my friends what Netflix and chill…