A music festival is apologizing for a volunteer who demonstrated “overt racism” after refusing to move to the back of the venue when a performer called to bring “brown” women to the front of the crowd.
The National Post reports the incident at the Halifax Pop Explosion began when singer Lido Pimienta called for “brown girls to the front” of the venue. According to an account of the event by…
A recent study of the behavior of Tinder users says the app allegedly reinforces “ancient mating behaviour” because -- shockingly -- women want high-status men and men want good-looking women.
The Scotsman reports psychologists at the University of Aberdeen studied the Tinder behavior of 20-somethings and found that men wanted women who were physical attractive, while women sought out signifiers…
The next generation of sex bots will apparently have a moral code that can differentiate between good and bad people.
The Sun reports the creator of the Samantha sex robot, Sergi Santos, said sex dolls will develop a moral code that will reward good people and punish bad people.
Santos reportedly told IBTimes, “With two to three months work I can make her have a conversation with me and she…
While academics and activists claim that the differences between the genders are all socially constructed and enforced by the patriarchy, a recent poll of adults in the United Kingdom reveals the majority of adults believe men and women are fundamentally different.
A YouGov UK poll conducted on Oct. 20 asked 3,168 adults living in the United Kingdom their view on gender as a social construct.…
According to VICE, if you’re a 30-something therapist and you can take advantage of your underage patient, you’re actually the real victim in the situation—so as long as you’re a woman.
In a piece for VICE, Serena Solomon wrote about how “The Sex Offender Registry Leaves Female Sex Offenders Open to Abuse.” The article opens up with telling the story of particular offender, “Jenny,” a woman in…
A city councilor in Halifax, Canada is arguing against using the word “marijuana," saying it's a “racist” term Americans gave to associate the drug with Mexicans.
Halifax Today reports councilor Shawn Cleary, who serves on the committee to implement marijuana legalization in Nova Scotia, condemned the word “marijuana” in a post on Twitter.
On Tuesday, Cleary tweeted that the “scientific name”…
President Trump has a new reason to rail against the liberal media. Forget speculation about his own sex life, the media is now speculating about his daughter’s sex life.
In an allegedly investigative piece, the Huffington Post’s Ashley Feinberg claims to have discovered Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s “sex playlist.” According to Feinberg, since Ivanka made a playlist a few days before her…
A group of gay, lesbian, trans, and queer people in Rochester, New York have created the “Trigger Warning Queer and Trans Gun Club” to teach themselves how to use guns for self-defense.
13WHAM reports the group, which formed after the election of President Trump, meets once a month to learn gun safety.
Co-founder Jake Allen told 13WHAM, “One of the questions that was asked was, ‘What brings you…
Racism is lurking everywhere -- even on your cereal box.
In a tweet on Tuesday, writer Saladin Ahmed pointed out something he found peculiar on his box of Corn Pops:
hey @KelloggsUS why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor? this is teaching kids racism. pic.twitter.com/Nh7M7IFawW
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) October 24, 2017
If you can’t spot the…
A local California law that barred convicted sex offenders from handing out treats on Halloween was rescinded by the city council on Monday.
KTLA 5 reports the 2012 Simi Valley law had prevented convicted sex offenders on the Megan's Law website from handing out candy to children on Halloween. It also mandated that sex offenders turn their lights off after 5 p.m. on Halloween and prevented them…
