How can you look at that picture of a black cock dressed up as a stereotypical black person that Lily Allen clearly thinks is amusing and necessary to show to a woman of color, and think that people perceiving her and her video as racist is wrong?

Playboy, before the might of the Internet, defending the last vestiges of its readership from scary technologies.

When I applied to grad programs, this was a serious consideration of mine. I was once ripped apart right here in the ole Jezebel comments because I said was oddly relieved when I did not end up at the University of Texas at Austin for this reason (among others, but my reproductive rights being one of them). I was…

I'm of a generation where Playboy was a gateway for artists and authors to make a name.

No, you are mistaken. Slavery is forced labor without remuneration. That's exactly what forcing a person to carry and bear a child is. There are other modes of slavery besides the Atlantic slave trade.

I think that cable news is a sewer but Maddow (and Shepard Smith) are rare exceptions.

Forced pregnancy is slavery

Sorry, Alfred you are no longer needed.

She opens her mouth, and words come out and yet all I can hear is "'No duh' is a product of fear!"

I saw this interview this morning. One of my pet peves is when people talk about a "war on Christmas," as if by saying "Happy Holidays" people are destroying something. Guess what? We live in a religiously diverse country. If I want to acknowledge everyone's celebration and say "Happy Holidays," I can. If you want to…

His family is adamant he did the right thing and fronted up to police on realising the sex had gone too far.

"...the sex had gone too far."

Did the right thing because he pulled the guys off her while they were raping her? Umm. No. You're supposed to do something BEFORE the rape starts, asswipe. Banging my head on the wall.

Teen sex braggart? No. Teen rapist. There. Fixed it.

Something about him fleeing town is so gratifying to me. Schadenfreude overload

That would be my guess. Too bad they scrapped his black footie pajamas—was there a more 'swinging 60s' get-up than Neal Adams' weird pop art concentric circle Havok outfit? I always liked how it was completely featureless outside of the circles, which somehow always appeared head-on no matter what angle Havok was…