Kaitlyn Hunt, the 18-year-old Florida high schooler charged with two felony counts for dating a 15-year-old female classmate, has refused the state attorney's plea deal and is heading to court.Read more... ...
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These might the kind of sound bites you'd think would come from, say, the premiere of a Michael Bay movie, but — nope! Roman Polanski and Francois Ozon, two iconic male directors, with scores of nuanced, sensitive and artistic films behind them (although,...
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In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up on Bollywood rom-coms...
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Four days after a more than 1-mile wide tornado ravaged Oklahoma, the media is awash with victims-standing-in-front-of-their-ruined-houses interviews. CNN's Wolf Blitzer was in the midst of conducting such an interview with Rebecca Vitsmun, who escaped...
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The Hyde amendment bans federal funding of abortion. But the North Carolina Senate sees no problem with bestowing $250,000 worth of state funding to an umbrella group of faith-based anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that disseminate dubious medical...
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Gabi Gregg's swimwear collaboration with Swimsuits For All was eagerly anticipated by the fashion blogger's thousands of fans. But order fulfillment and inventory issues have left would-be customers disappointed by cancelled orders. And, though many...
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An oldie, but a goodie. Looks like SOMEONE attended the Twerking Academy. All the bonus points because this cat's name is Bubba. (But actually, this cat's OK, right? Please email us if you're OK, cat.)Read more... ...
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As the New York mayoral race kicks off, Sex and The City and Broadway actress Cynthia Nixon has been organizing LGBT and women-geared fundraisers on behalf of the public advocate Bill de Blasio. She's also had to set a number of people — including,...
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Even before Abercrombie & Fitch CEO and douchenozzle Mike Jeffries started getting pummeled for his 2006 comments about sizing his clothes to fit "cool, good-looking" kids only, the company was on the decline domestically.Read more... ...
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Yes, the new music video for "Fixurlifeup," slated to appear on Prince and his all-female backup band 3rd Eye Girl's upcoming album Plectrum Electrum, has a message. A few messages, actually, but unlike past hits, none of them are "go fuck something."...
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Jose Canseco claims that he passed the polygraph test administered as an attempt to clear his name after a Las Vegas woman brought a sexual assault charge against him. He's still Tweeting her name non-stop.Read more... ...
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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama dances with pre-kindergarten students while she visits the Savoy School May 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Savoy School, once one of the lowest performing schools in the District of Columbia, has shown significant signs...
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Let's be clear. This article — "Dear Girls, Please Shave Your Pubic Hair" — written by "Bernie B" for Thought Catalog is clickbait that's meant to make you angry. And it works! I clicked, I got mad and now I'm responding to it. It's the ciiiiiiiiiircle...
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I don't make a habit of reviewing galleys of books that get sent to me, because — unlike panning The Hangover 2 or something, after which Doug Ellin will probably not show up at my house with tear-stained sleeves — there is the distinct possibility...
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Provoked by the four-year-long lawsuit between Rina Bovrisse and her former employer, Prada Japan, the United Nations is backing Bovrisse and pushing Japan to introduce legislation to make sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace illegal.Read...
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Researchers now have a hypothesis for the reason your 4-year-old niece insists on telling you the same story over and over every time she sees you. Alas, there are no new findings on how not to look bored.Read more... ...
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It's the final countdown to the new Netflix-streamed episodes of Arrested Development (HOW EXCITED ARE YOU? HOW MANY INTERNET PEOPLE HAVE MADE THAT FINAL COUNTDOWN JOKE? HALP) and Mitch Hurwitz and co. have done a cracking job of making us all feel like...
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Chris Christie, who has gone on record multiple times as a World Class H8er of the Maysles brothers-directed cinéma vérité series Jersey Shore, met the cast of Jersey Shore when both Christie's team and Snooki's team were filming segments for the...
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In today's edition of Tweet Beat, Solange takes a very productive bath, Gary Busey tweets a delectable recipe, Mindy Kaling has a spider problem, and Ken Jennings is stumped by a question at long last.Read more... ...
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I mean, PROLLY, RITE. Who didn't love She's the Man. This whole Amanda Bynes arrest thingy is extremely upsetting. I don't doubt that she's going through some serious shit these days, but on the other hand, that dude who called the cops on her seems...
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Julianne Moore looked radiant as per usual at the Cannes Film Festival Opening Ceremony last night in her lilac Dior gown, but everybody was being an asshole and secretly zooming in on her toes, which were hilariously trying to escape from her shoes....
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It's pretty obvious that most mainstream fashion has a plus-size problem. This is perhaps epitomized by fact that the "fatkini" sold out instantly — when the needs of plus-sized women are considered by designers (which occurs fare more rarely than...
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The Gatsby ripple effect. Read more... ...
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Among the many changes made in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published earlier this month, is the addition of hoarding, recognized as its own disorder.Read more... ...
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Do you find yourself refreshing and refreshing and refreshing your email/various social media feeds until you're not even sure what you're hoping to find other than an antidote for your sense of impending mortality? "Camp Grounded" might be just the...
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Would you look at the size of those rocks in those ear fobs. Read more... ...
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Welcome to Friendzone, Jezebel's column devoted to dealing with the valuable people in your life who you're not humping. Got an issue and looking for guidance? Email friendzone@jezebel.comRead more... ...
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Over at The Atlantic, Abigail Rine examines the Evangelical push to revise the obsession with female purity and the "damaged goods" metaphor so heavily used in the religion's teachings. Read more... ...
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Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal...
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Fun with FLOTUS and Olivia Pope!Read more... ...
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Yes, it's true: Hanson, that center-parted trio of cherub brothers from the 90s, will now be known for precisely two things: a song called MMMbop and a beer, named after the song, that was released 16 years later. Read more... ...
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As previously discussed, South Korea has the highest per capita rates of plastic surgery in the world. We've seen plenty of smiley, radiant "after" photos, but artist Ji Yeo has taken "right after" pictures: Haunting photographs of women in recovery...
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OMG Tim Curry is recovering from a stroke. Please be well. Legend, Rocky Horror, Worst Witch, Clue fans: Can we talk about this man's genius? Read more... ...
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Has the New York Times' "Modern Love" column taken a turn for the tolerable? First there was the thought-provoking Jessica Bennett essay about the meaning of marriage, then there that story of the old couple who were each widowed and found each other...
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As reported by the Times earlier this month, new legislation in California could make that state the first to legally guarantee the rights of transgender high school athletes. California has already joined a group of more than half a dozen states with...
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Gawker Real Lesbians React to Fake Lesbian Porn Made for Straight Men | Deadspin Leroy's Revenge: Two Dogs, Father And Son, Fight To The Death | Kotaku The Xbox One Uncertainty Principle | io9 The World's Most Awkward TaxidermyRead more... ...
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On Thursday night's Watch What Happens Live during the show's best segment "Plead the Fifth", Mad Men's Elizabeth Moss and Arrested Development's Jessica Walter spent a few minutes sharing delightful things about themselves. In the case of Elisabeth...
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After model student Kiera Wilmot was arrested and removed from her high school for doing a science experiment on school property, hundreds of thousands of people across the country signed petitions asking for charges to be dropped and for her to be reinstated...
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"No Regrets" is a lovely policy to uphold re: sex-having. But, sometimes, we have regrets anyway. Often there were warning signs; red flags we should've noticed. Here is a completely arbitrary crowd-sourced list of people/entire demographics we wish...
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A mixed-race group of students at Wilcox County High School in south Georgia received worldwide attention earlier this year when they raised money to throw the area's first racially integrated prom after the school refused to fund the event. (Yes, in...
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Froyo! It's not just the punchline in a joke about things ladies like anymore — it's now a snack for dogs, too! Yappy Treats, a cart selling small-batch frozen yogurt for dogs will begin appearing in various locations around New York City this weekend....
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What was your excuse for not being valedictorian of your high school graduating class? Mine was Law & Order. Those weekday marathons sucked me in within minutes, and before I knew it, it was 11pm and all I had learned about human anatomy was what...
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Paul Tudor Jones is 58 years old. He is a hedge funder. He is one of the richest men in America. He is probably a Republican. He predicted the 1987 market crash (see below). On Wednesday, we also learned that he holds some sexist beliefs about women...
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As the juice trend barrels uncontrollably ahead (much like your diarrhea will when juice is all you consume), the titans of the industry are becoming more and more defensive both in response to those who question juice as The Way of Life and with one...
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Remember the horrible bed bug invasion that was going to plunge New York into the Age of the Insect, when all Gothamites would have to feed their mattresses to the insatiable Bed Bug Queen living in the subway tunnels? It was going to be terrible, and...
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What, pray tell, is this remarkably versatile piece of utilitarian jewelry? It’s a “chatelaine,” which bore all the accessories most useful to an extremely fancy woman living in the 19th century. They held all sorts of things, from whistles to...
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The Jumbotron sees all, and sometimes the Jumbotron sees so much that we can use it as a sort of compendium of our wildest hopes and darkest fears, like that fear we have of being publicly rejected or having beer spilled all over us by a clumsy doofus....
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Earlier this week, we found out that Indonesia would finally be doing something about all the out-of-wedlock sex and black magic that its citizens are enjoying, probably simultaneously, since a proper, married household hardly seems like the place for...
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During her arrest in Midtown last night, Amanda Bynes was taken to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation; it turns out this was set in motion by "friend and Hollywood publicist" Jonathan Jaxson, who told the police that he had proof that Bynes was suicidal.Read...
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Superannuated comic misogynist Jerry Lewis, who, we ought to say, looks great for 87, still can’t stomach the idea of women performing comedy. A potential life-giving mother with a bountiful womb and nipples a-weeping with life-giving milk making jokes?...
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