After nominating no black actors this year, and a strong backlash proclaiming #OscarsSoWhite, Sunday’s Academy Awards tried its darnedest to prove that the Oscars aren’t racist, or, at the very least, to…
Commentary
In recent years, there has been growing media coverage, academic research, government interest, and public anger about what’s known as “revenge porn.” But a false separation between “revenge pornography” and the proliferation…
Let me begin with my bias: I’m a longtime fan and follower of Killer Mike — he’s an incredible rapper and his politics are generally on point. Not uncoincidentally, he’s also a…
To call a man a “man’s man” is usually meant as a compliment. To call almost anyone a “girly girl” is at best gentle ribbing, at worst, a dire criticism. If men…
The Cut reported today that Emily Ratajkowski, best known for dancing around naked in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, is a Bernie Sanders supporter. Great! Love the guy. But, Ratajkowski’s political leanings…
She cheated, y’all. Before you start making any judgment calls, let’s take a moment to remember that she cheated! That seems to be the reaction of many people to the video of…
Predictably, the Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial has focused far more on what the victims did “wrong” than on the perpetrator’s behaviour. Story after story in the media paints a picture of…
I am full of sighs today, as one of my very fav radio hosts, Nora Young, has fallen prey to sex industry propagandists. Young, for those who don’t know (or aren’t Canadian)…
There are not enough baby elephant videos in the world to soothe and distract me from all of the pain and suffering I see daily in the news. At the moment, I…
It has been hard to miss the growing media coverage of the Zika virus. With a possible link between the infection of pregnant women and birth deformities, much of the attention has…
A total ban on abortion has been reaffirmed in the Dominican Republic. “Total,” meaning that even if you are a teenage girl dying from leukemia and the only thing preventing doctors from…
Japanese porn company, Trottla, is producing lifelike female child sex dolls, claiming that they will “save children from sexual abuse.” The argument behind these dolls is that men will use them instead…
Pornhub, the biggest pornography site on the entire internet, recently announced they would be launching a clothing line to “support victims of domestic violence.” The company is partnering with porn star, Christy…
In the pre-social media years of free-AOL-hours CDs, chat rooms, and email, I felt like the Internet held so much potential. Finally! A place I could be free to explore new ideas,…
In a neoliberal society driven by right wing extremist narratives that ultimately infiltrate even the left, it is not at all surprising to see ongoing attempts to normalize the most horrific forms…