Several openly transgender Americans started to enlist in the armed forces for the first time this week, with the end of a formal ban on transgender people being able to serve openly. But a man in Washington, DC, faced an abrupt rejection on Wednesday when the Air Force Reserve said he would not be able […]
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“It's Guys Defending The 'Grab The P***y' Remark”
Rose Wong for BuzzFeed News “At every single job, I have had one of the [superiors] harass me.” “I had a boss ask me if a coworker ‘made me wet.’ I had a coworker masturbate to porn in front of me and threaten to find where I lived and then harm me.” “I was the […]
“It's Hanging In The Air”
The event, marking the 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog, took a turn when Oliver alluded to a sexual harassment accusation leveled at Hoffman, given the current climate following the news of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein. “This is something we’re going to have to talk about because…it’s hanging in the air,” the […]
“It's OK To Be White”
The White House correspondent for a prominent right-wing website was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly accosting a woman at the University of Connecticut. Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent and Washington, DC, bureau chief for the Gateway Pundit, was at the university to deliver a speech titled, “It’s OK To Be White.” The speech drew […]
“It's A Different World Now”
Transparent Agency Far East Movement. For years, racist trolls on social media would tell Far East Movement to “go back to Asia” — even though everyone in the group was born and raised in Los Angeles. The quartet-now-trio came to fame with their 2010 dance track “Like a G6,” becoming the first Asian-American group to […]
“It's Worse Than Afghanistan”
Getty Images Everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong since Hurricane Irma slammed into the British Virgin Islands. Wandering around Tortola, the largest of the islands, the scale of the destruction is clear, even after a week of rebuilding. Thousands of homes here have lost roofs and walls, revealing rooms containing the possessions […]
“It's A Horrible Thing To Do”
On Wednesday night’s episode of Survivor: Game Changers, contestant Jeff Varner outed Zeke Smith as transgender as he attempted to prevent his own elimination. “There is deception here. Deceptions on levels,” Varner said before turning to Smith and asking, “Why haven’t you told anyone that you’re transgender?” “It’s a horrible thing to do to another […]
“It's My Escape”
View this image › Moviegoers at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Phillip Faraone / Getty Images After years of reports about the slow, inevitabledeath of the moviegoing experience, Hollywood is in the midst of a sudden reversal of fortune unlike anything it’s experienced in nearly two decades — and it could be due, at least […]
“It's Time For Ivanka To Stand Up”
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards urged Ivanka Trump on Friday to step into the debate over the Republican health care bill. The president’s daughter’s silence on the way the legislation would affect women has been “deafening,” she said, and that “it’s time for Ivanka to … stand for women.” Ivanka is currently on a ski […]