It took me three tries and a rewind to recognize Gwen Stefani in that bit of the Emmys.
Another culprit - our culture where we have to work more than 40 hours a week because we are afraid we'll lose our jobs. We have no balance between work and life; it's all work. I'm very, very fortunate that I no longer have to work minimum wage jobs. But, I often feel that I have to work more than 40 hours a week,…
The relationship between poverty and weight is a vital yet often downplayed aspect of the "obesity epidemic." Poor people have less nutritious food in their neighborhood stores (if they have stores at all), less money to buy it, less time to cook it, and less access to preventive medical care. But the fact that…
A lot of minimum-wage jobs (fast food worker, cashier, etc) involve spending the majority of time on your feet, also. When I was working as a cashier, the last thing I wanted to do after a shift was go for a walk or to the gym. I hadn't burned a lot of calories, but I had just spent anywhere from 4 to 10 hours on my…
Add in the fact that food is one of the few affordable, easy-to-acquire, use-anytime things that people can use to comfort ourselves, and of freaking course we're always stuffing ourselves. We can't drink booze, smoke cigarettes, or use drugs at work, and sex isn't always easy to come by, but chocolate gives you a…
This comment is perfection.
Meanwhile, the mold in the house is calling up and getting quotes for a Kardashian removal service.
Yes. That is correct, and it sounds/looks/is insane, but it occurs for a very simple reason: the ingrained distrust of an overarching federal government results in localization of things that don't particularly need to be local. The individual rights of states a basic tenet of the founding of the US, but as each state…
Everything in the US needs fixing. Our law enforcement system needs fixing. Our health care needs fixing. Our banks need fixing. Our college and university system needs fixing. OUR ISPs NEED FIXING. FUCK YOU COMCAST.
As a non-American watching this unfold, has there been any discussion at all on why the US has separate little autonomous units of law enforcement and even more - why the hell are there so many goddamn laws enforcement units? The place seems to be one gun happy, top heavy paradise for people with a power complex.
This…
Oh, fuck off with this. If I were getting repeatedly harassed at my workplace, my employer would take measures to ensure the harassers were removed and prevented from returning. I'm not a delicate, wilting flower that needs to be protected, but I'm also not some ragdoll that you get to toss around whenever you feel…
Jezebel has always attracted far more numerous and vitriolic trolls and harassers than any other GM site. There are a lot of twisted, angry people out there who are particularly enraged when women speak in public.
In NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY is it acceptable to let your workers be subjected to repeated, targeted pornography and violence. I have NEVER worked a job staffed by the kind of people who would stand idly by — it would be one fat lawsuit after another up everyone's asshole and an HR nightmare, to boot.
This old white man thinks it's awesome, and I'd bet most of us agree. The problem is that 500 people on the internet appears to be a consensus, when in reality there are 50,000,000 who have smiled at it and moved on.
Hoping that you'll check back to this, or that the mods pick this up, but user basketballamericanssnnnn is posting some really graphic gifs of a woman being beaten up, and another using the Jezebel logo in front of what looks like someone slitting their arm.
I could watch that first vine. All. Day.
OMGWTF?