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I know so little about Amanda Bynes save for the fact she enjoys wearing interesting wigs and telling Drake she wants him to “murder her vagina.” But what I do know is that she officially needs her Twitter taken away because she tweeted at Rihanna that Chris Brown beat her because she “isn’t pretty enough.” More
Jennifer Lopez has never been my most favorite person in the whole wide world, but she never really bothered me. I didn’t even see Gigli, so there’s no reason to hold a grudge over that nonsense. I find the whole “still from the block” bit to be a little absurd, but whatever floats her boat. Then, I saw the news that she is most likely collaborating with Chris Brown on her next album. Now, from one mom to another, J. Lo is kind of dead to me. More
Well, if the Catholic Church was looking for a miracle on day one of new Pope Francis I‘s ascension to the papacy, they might just have it in the form of a 10-month-old baby who survived a terrifying fall of eight stories while being clutched in his mother’s arms. The story is not all angels and happiness though. This mother lost her life in the fall and New York City police are now trying to determine whether she jumped or was pushed. More
Thanks to some justifiable Twitter outrage Amazon.UK has pulled a line of T-shirts emblazoned with the chipper and empowering message “Keep Calm And Rape A Lot” sentiment printed on them. The online clothing store, Solid Gold Bomb, claims they had no idea they were offering the shirts for sale. Because yeah, most stores have no idea about what products they sell. More
People really hate to believe that their precious celebrities can be vile, dangerous, woman-killers. Unfortunately, they hate it more than domestic violence itself – which claims 1300 lives and causes 2 million injuries per year in America alone. Another chapter in our long narrative of giving violent men the benefit of the doubt unfolded this week with the death of model Reeva Steenkamp at the hands of her Olympian boyfriend Oscar Pistorius. Reeva was brutally murdered and the world weeps – but not for her.
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Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to tell all the people you love exactly how much you love them. But it’s hard to get in the lovey-dovey mood when everywhere around me, I’m confronted with stories about women and children who are hurt or killed at the hands of those who “love” them. More
Physical violence in relationships is not funny. Period. I’m disgusted that this is being marketed to teens, but not surprised that the “geniuses” behind the Naughty High School game would think of this crap.
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First it was the Pope and his holiday message of love and brotherhood condemnation and judgment. Now it’s this guy. Father Piero Corsi, an Italian priest, composed a Christmas bulletin and hung it on his church’s door – it had nothing to do with Christmas, though. More
‘The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.” More
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It’s really nice to see some people place the seriousness of domestic violence over the importance of pop super-stardom. Young women everywhere should hear the message that their well-being is important. More
Looks like a “domestic dispute” is to blame for yet another act of violence. More
Earlier this week I read with horror about a 22-year-old pregnant woman in Michigan who was abducted, set on fire and then shot in the back. Miraculously, she survived the attack, which took place just three weeks before her due date. She went into early labor, however, and on Tuesday gave birth via c-section to a baby boy. More
North Carolina’s Amendment One, the completely anti-family constitutional amendment that essentially dissolves domestic partnerships and civil unions, passed last night by an overwhelming majority. The aggressive piece of legislation which recognizes heterosexual marriages as the only legal union of the state passed by 60%, thereby compromising the health benefits and protections of children who happen to be born to unmarried parents — gay or straight. And while I clearly take issue with Mother’s Day as a rather blind celebration of everything American women do not have, Amendment One gives North Carolina families even more reason to boycott the supposed observance of motherhood. More
Given how often domestic violence celebrated in our culture, from the default Chris Brown reference to Hugh Hefner‘s strapping son smacking around his lady friend, measures like these are essential to recognizing domestic abuse as a crime. More
