Is Rape Ever Funny?
Touchy subject, I know. Once a week I write a round-up for Jezebel, Gawker Media's women's site, about the misogyny that runs rampant on all of the web's gossip blogs. A frequently targeted topic is...
View ArticleWWWWD Reports On The Met Ball
"Karl Lagerfeld is dead!" "Terrorists at the Met Gala!" "Kate Moss ate foie gras!" Missed these headlines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala? You can find them all in the...
View ArticleLast-Minute Halloween Task! Find A Masculine Costume For Your Effeminate Son
We were so focused on the crappy Cyrus parents who let their 9-year-old daughter out of the house dressed like a sexy witch in dominatrix boots, we forgot about scads of other crappy American parents...
View ArticlePalin Parody Book Creating Lots of Oopsies In The Media
Ha ha ha. On the very same day that HarperCollins released Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, new book publisher O/R put out its first offering—Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. The...
View ArticleLiz Lemon Vs. The High-Def Camera
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in some beer-drenched frat house full of peeps who don't understand "30 Rock" is satire. In last night's episode, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) went for Lasig surgery—that's an...
View ArticleDoes “SNL” Think Domestic Violence Against Tiger Woods Is Funny?
I had uncomfortable feelings about this "Saturday Night Live" skit where Kenan Thompson and Blake Lively make fun of Elin Nordegren allegedly beating up Tiger Woods. Ever since the Woods/Nordegren...
View ArticleMan, Oh Man, Samantha Bee On “The Daily Show” Is Awesome
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMale Inequalitywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis Poor men. They have it so hard! As Samantha Bee pointed...
View ArticleBecause That’s What Ladies Be Talking About
The Onion magazine satire of "10 Most Powerful Women" articles might be a joke, but frankly this cover speaks for many profiles about Hillary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice. The article in Vogue about...
View ArticleMind Of Man: Why Men Prefer “Innocent” Girls To “Whorey Slutosauruses”
This week’s column was inspired by a recent article on MarieClaire.com entitled "Why Men Prefer Innocent Girls To Bad Girls." The other day, some guys and I were chillaxing in my pal Josh’s sweet hot...
View ArticleSNL Debuts The Li’l Poundcake HPV Vaccine Doll
There was a lot to love when Melissa McCarthy hosted "Saturday Night Live" this weekend. But my fave was a sketch she wasn't even in: the Li'l Poundcake HPV Vaccine Doll. It might beat Kristen Schaal's...
View Article10 Ways To Stuff Yourself & Stay Sexy Over Thanksgiving
Of all the many splendored joys associated with the holiday season, having a free pass to stuff your face may be the best. And of all the lip-smacking, gravy-smothered, "have another piece of that,...
View ArticleEven More S**t That Girls Say
Oh my God, you guys! Is that hummus? Seriously, that dog realllllllly needs some water. For real. [YouTube] …
View ArticleThe Latest Miracle Beauty Product? Fotoshop By Adobé
This hilarious (and painfully accurate) video reimagines Photoshop as a beauty product that can erase acne, whiten teeth, make you skinny, and even change your race. Over a pulsing techno track, models...
View Article“Pintester” Is Messing Up Pinterest Tutorials So You Don’t Have To
I love Pinterest, but certain recipes and DIYs make me a little suspicious. Crockpot tiramisu? Really? Five-minute French tip manicure? Riiiiiight. My Pinterest side eye has been hilariously validated...
View ArticleGay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends
Of course, here's the inevitable response to the parody video "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends." I'll have you know, lesbians, that you don't scare me. I'm pre-t-t-y sure my blowjob skills are...
View ArticleWe Can’t Wrap Our Minds Around The Brant Brothers, So Someone Else Is Doing...
If you've yet to hear of the brothers Brant, you are very fortunate. You are also not a subscriber and/or reader of Vanity Fair, where they were profiled back in September. That story's title says it...
View ArticleRenounce Your Homosexuality For A Free Chicken Sandwich!
As we all learned last year, Chick-fil-A's secret seasoning blend includes a heaping spoonful of homophobia and a generous slathering of bigotry. In response, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, a comedy group...
View ArticleThe “Betches” Are Professional Mean Girls
Please meet "betches" Jordana Abraham, Samantha Fishbein and Aleen Kuperman. This trio of childhood friends who coined the term "betch" while they were attending Cornell together go by the mottos: "If...
View ArticleA Glimpse Inside The Not-So-Perfect World Of Barbie And Ken
"In The Doll House," a new photo series by Dina Goldstein, gives us a peek inside Barbie's Dreamhouse, where things are not always as they seem: 'In the doll house’ examines the less than perfect life...
View ArticleLily Allen Responds To Allegations Of Racism Against Black Women In Her “Hard...
This week, Lily Allen debuted the video for her new song "Hard Out Here," to extremely mixed reactions. Some, like our own Rachel, saw her song about pop music's policing of women's bodies and double...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Responds To #CancelColbert By Shutting Down The Ching Chong...
Stephen Colbert has finally responded to the hashtag #CancelColbert, which was trending last week on Twitter. In true "Colbert Report" fashion, he did it in character as a pompous blowhard conservative...
View ArticleComedian Reinterprets Classic Pin-Ups For Satirical Feminist Calendar Pin Up...
Do you dream of a world where women are raunchy with abandon, able to own their sexuality, and laugh at themselves and everything else in the world? We sure as hell do, and so does Katie Hannigan, the...
View ArticleWatch: Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush Roasts Trump, GOP On SNL
Will Ferrell made a triumphant return to SNL last night as his beloved George W. character, and this time George W. was ready to roast. The whole clip reminds me that the current line-up of GOP...
View ArticleSatirical Chinese Twitter Hilariously Covers The GOP Debate
The Relevant Organs covered the debate brilliantly!
View ArticleAzealia Banks And Sarah Palin Have Beef And It’s Amazing
A beef erupted between Azealia Banks and Sarah Palin this week after Banks read a satirical news piece in which Palin claimed that black people "willingly accepted slavery."
View Article‘No Men Beyond This Point’ Imagines A World Without Dudes & Somehow, It Looks...
We're all for a good misandry joke, but No Men Beyond This Point looks like a "Funny or Die" video stretched into 80 minutes. Sony just released the trailer for this sci-fi-ish mockumentary, which...
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