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12-Year-Old Commits Suicide After Being Called “Slut,” “Whore” Online

Jessica Wakeman11 hours ago //

A 12-year-old girl named Gabrielle Molina in Queens, New York, committed suicide this week because cyberbullies called her a “slut” and a “whore.” Molina had also recently gotten into a fistfight at school, which was taped and posted on YouTube. [New York Daily News]
While delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy, President Obama warned that those who commit sexual assault are undermining the American military’s standing in the world. [USA Today]
Oklahoma’s state Senate advanced a bill yesterday to defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. [Huffington Post]
Summer music festivals all have very male lineups this year. [Salon] Keep reading »

Republican Politician Shames Woman For Abortion, Said She Should Have Delivered Severely Disabled Baby

Jessica Wakeman14 hours ago //

AR Abortion Ban Blocked

Arkansas ban on abortions after 12 weeks temporarily blocked. Read More »

Tricked Into Abortion

Boyfriend tricks girlfriend into aborting pregnancy with pills. Read More »

Bachmann Urges Warfare

Rep. Michele Bachmann urges "spiritual warfare" against liberalism. Read More »

Yesterday, a woman named Christy Zink testifed before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcomittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice to discuss a bill proposed by Rep. Trent Franks to ban abortions after 20 weeks. Zink spoke about her difficult decision in 2009 to have an abortion at 22 weeks after she learned the fetus she was carrying was severely disabled.

In response to her testimony, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, also a Republican, publicly shamed Zink and her family for terminating a late-term pregnancy and suggested she should have carried the possibly nonviable pregnancy to term just on principle. Keep reading »

Woman Draws A $1,240 Penis

Julie Gerstein17 hours ago //

Penis on Mars!

Thanks, NASA. Teenage boys rejoice! Read More »

Raccoon Bites Penis

Let this be a lesson to you: do not try and rape a raccoon. Read More »

Penis Snatching

It's happening in Africa. Read More »

Judging Penises

We admit it. We've judged penises. Read More »

Keying penises into the hoods or doors of automobiles is usually the sort of thing a jilted lover does. But not Natasha Myers, of Wesley Chapel, Florida. Natasha (pictured) is an all-purpose dick artist, willing to dick up your car for minor traffic violations, if need be.

Angered over a motorist who refused to yield to pedestrians, Myers tracked down the offending driver’s SUV. Security cameras caught her walking into a nearby supermarket and coming out with a Post-It note. She scribbled out a note and affixed it to the SUV’s windshield. Keep reading »

The Most Popular Baby Names — A State-By-State Comparison!

Julie Gerstein19 hours ago //

The fine folks at Nick Mom put together a helpful map detailing the most popular boy and girl baby names across the country. You may be surprised to learn that Liam has taken over a huge swath of the Midwest! And Washington, Maine, Pennsylvania and Ohio — among others — are mad for Mason. When it comes to girl’s names, Sophia and Emma are tops. Take a look at the whole state-by-state comparison above — and consider Noah for your next baby boy. [Nick Mom]

Jerry Lewis On Women Comedians: “I Cannot Sit And Watch A Lady Diminish Her Qualities”

Jessica WakemanMay 23, 2013 //

Judd Schools Jerry Lewis

Judd Apatow informs Jerry Lewis women are, in fact, funny. Read More »

"Are Women Funny?"

Mindy Kaling won't answer your stupid "are women funny?" question. Read More »

Why Funny Women Rule

John DeVore on why funny women are a natural resource. Read More »

Comedian Jerry Lewis does not like any dainty little flowers, I mean women, who perform comedy, because it’s just so crass and unladylike. “I don’t have any,” he said when asked to name his favorite comediennes. “I can’t see women don’t that. It bothers me … I cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator.” And this is not, in fact, the first time the 87-year-old has said made bigoted statements like this. [The Daily Beast]
And on that note, here’s Christina Wilkinson, the comic who was sexually heckled by men in the audience and then punished by the comedy owners for asking why they didn’t toss the hecklers out. [xoJane]
Mississippi may soon jail women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths under manslaughter laws. [Mother Jones]
College women are drinking more alcohol and doing it more frequently than college men, according to a new study in a journal called (uh oh) Alcoholism. [Huffington Post] Keep reading »

Criminal Butt Dials Cops During Murder Plot

Julie GersteinMay 23, 2013 //

Be My BF: Cheese Thief

Share your muenster with me, man! Read More »

Be My BF: Taco Cop

This guy got arrested for giving a cop tacos instead of his ID. Read More »

Be My BF: Court

We want to date this "People's Court" announcer. Read More »

Just a wee suggestion, but if you’re going to talk about your plot to follow a dude home and murder him? Make sure all of your electronic devices are off. That’s the hard lesson learned by Florida man Scott Simon learned earlier this week when he accidentally butt-dialed 911 in the midst of discussing his plan to kill.

Simon can be heard chatting up his murder plot minutes before Nicholas Walker was shot while driving on I-95. The shooting, and the resulting car crash, shut down the highway for several hours. And while police don’t believe Simon pulled the trigger, they do think he collaborated with someone else to kill Walker. Earlier in the day, Walker and Simon got in an altercation — at a local Waffle House.

Simon’s been charged with first degree murder. [MSN] [Cell phone photo courtesy Shutterstock]

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett Is The Heroine Of Yesterday’s London Terrorist Attack

Jessica WakemanMay 23, 2013 //

On Heroism

On the Aurora shooting and the myth of men's obligation to be heroes. Read More »

Boston Marathon Bombing

Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the iconic race. Read More »

Life Amidst Terrorism

Amelia on life in New York City after 9/11. Read More »

By now you’ve probably heard about a disturbing terrorist attack in London yesterday: two Islamic extremists murdered a British soldier by hacking him to death with knives and then ranting to passersby wielding camera phones that the murder was in retaliation for Muslim lives lost.

But many terrible stories have a hero inside them: Ingrid Loyau-Kennett. The 48-year-old British woman visiting her children after a trip to France happened to be riding a bus near the street in southeastern neighborbood of Woolrich, where the terrorist attack occurred. When she saw the soldier’s body lying on the ground (being “cradled” by another female passerby, who was praying over the dead body), she jumped off the bus to try and help. Then Loyau-Kennett walked up to the two blood-stained attackers, asked for their weapons, and engaged them in conversation so as to distract them from killing more people. Keep reading »

Look Back: It’s President Barack Obama At The Prom!

Julie GersteinMay 23, 2013 //

Obama Slow Jams

Some more slow jams from our Pres. Watch »

Watch The Obamas Dance

Jennifer Hudson serenaded the first couple to an Al Green song. Read More »

Bey, Jay, and Obama

We'd love to be a fly on this wall... Read More »

Time magazine released never-before-seen photos of President Obama attending his 1979 senior prom at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii. The photos were released by Kelli Allman (the one in the peach-colored dress), who attended the prom with her boyfriend Greg, Obama and his date Megan Hughes. Despite the fact that polyester was the fabric of choice in the ’70s, the group looks pretty great.

Allman also shared the sweet message that Obama left in her senior yearbook:

Kelli, It has been so nice getting to know you this year. You are extremely sweet and foxy, I don’t know why Greg would want to spend any time with me at all! You really deserve better than clowns like us; you even laugh at my jokes! I hope we can keep in touch this summer, even though Greg wil, be gone. Call me up and I’ll buy you lunch soemtimes. Anyway, good luck in everything you do, and stay happy. Your friend, Barry Obama.

And he sealed it with a heart! [Time]

The eBook You Never Knew You Never Wanted: Rep. Michele Bachmann Erotica

Sarah GrayMay 23, 2013 //

Bachmann Stupidity

Sorry, Michele, "the morning-after abortion pill" doesn't exist. Read More »

Sexism Vs. Bachmann

Rep. Bachmann will have to deal with sexist BS on the campaign trail. Read More »

Bachmann meets corndog

The corndog bite seen round the world. Read More »

Conservative Political Action Conference Draws Major Leaders From The Right

Though Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house, it is Tea Party darling Rep. Michele Bachmann who’s cast off into the northern country’s snowy forest in this summer’s smoldering romance tale as the inspiration for Fires of Siberia. Publisher Badlands Unlimited describes the book as:

“…an old-fashioned bodice ripper romance that brings the heat for the 2013 summer beach reading season. Presidential candidate Danielle Powers, full of firebrand pluck and red state sex appeal, has the country in a tizzy. But on an international tour to beef up her foreign policy experience, disaster ensues—her plane explodes over Siberia. Miraculously, Danielle survives, along with one other passenger—a mysterious stranger named Steadman Bass.”

Author Trey Sager confirmed Rep. Bachmman herself is the inspiration. And this, my friends, is the cover:… Keep reading »

Arkansas Ban On Abortions After 12 Weeks Temporarily Blocked

Jessica WakemanMay 22, 2013 //

A ban on abortions after 12 weeks in Arkansas — the earliest abortion ban in the country — has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. [Politico]
The state government of Illinois has advanced a comprehensive sex ed bill that requires teachers to teach “medically accurate and age-appropriate lesson[s]” on sexual health. What a novel idea! [Rockford Register Star]
New York State has introduced a bill to prosecute sex traffickers. [Stop Human Trafficking NY]
Dove, Vistaprint and Audible.com are all ignoring an online campaign by feminist activist group Women, Action & Media (WAM) to encourage Facebook to remove content that is violent against women and girls. [Feministing, WAM]
Meet Rep. Krysten Sinema, a Democrat from Arizona, who is openly bisexual and agnostic. [ELLE] Keep reading »