March 02, 2009
We don't specifically set out to attack the Catholic Church, Catholicism itself, or any specific religion or practice. But when we see hypocrisy or any other repulsive public behavior, we'll call it like we see it... A nun in India, like the ones pictured above, is speaking out about ...
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February 19, 2009
The Sun took a peek at the controversial new female uniform for National Express's East Coast line in England, where people still ride trains because they're cool. What they found will shock you... especially if the uniform turns out to look anything like this... The Daily Mail has a ...
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"The mini-sized payout the jury awarded for emotional distress to the firefighters speaks volumes about the so-called notion that they endured severe or pervasive trauma while wearing earphones, sitting six feet off the ground inside a fire truck with the windows rolled up and a roaring diesel engin...
Joe. My. God.
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Joe
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February 18, 2009
San Diego firefighters have finally triumphed in their lawsuit against the city for being forced to work a gay pride parade, where they claim they were sexually harassed by attendees. But the four plaintiffs must share a meager $34,000 settlement. A jury found four San Diego firefighters who sued th...
Joe. My. God.
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February 16, 2009
I won't lie - the live tour for Yes Means Yes has been, by and large, an incredible experience. Getting to travel around and talk with all kinds of people about their work and our work to heal our very diseased sexual culture and prevent rape has been like a dream come true. The passion that people ...
Bitch. Ph.D.
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Jaclyn
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January 30, 2009
The economy is in such dire straits, it seems, companies aren't perturbed in the least to hear that their employees are furious about the new marketing plan... According to the Huffington Post, pilots and flight crew alike are furious at Spirit Airlines for forcing employees to wear apron...
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January 13, 2009
New York Knicks star center Eddy Curry has been hit with a sexual harassment and racial discrimination suit by his former chauffeur. The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky "in the nude," allegedly telling him, "Look at me, Da...
Joe. My. God.
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Joe
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January 07, 2009
In mid-December, I ordered a copy of “Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. YMY is an anthology filled with essays by writers well-known in the feminist blogosphere, and others who aren’t; by men, by women, ...
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November 25, 2008
It was the spring of 1955, and the shrill squeak of chalk scratching into slate sent shivers through the tiny bodies of the third grade class. Some of the students who had not been paying attention now gazed up and saw me up at the blackboard drawing a stick figure of a naked woman. I was ten years ...
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Bernie
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November 24, 2008
You'll recall that The Box owner Simon Hammerstein was accused of pressuring burlesque performers into three-ways, stashing them in dog-feces-strewn dressing rooms, pushing drugs on them and leaving welts on their assess. He denied most of the charges, and denies them again in this week's New York ,...
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