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What Does Mike Pence Think Happens At Restaurants?

Here is a deeply weird thing:

Report: Kansas Punished Women's Basketball Player, Not Josh Jackson, For Role In Bar Argument

The Kansas City Star continues to highlight the male-first atmosphere that appears to embody Kansas athletics, reporting on Friday that women’s basketball player McKenzie Calvert was barred from Allen Fieldhouse for two days after her was car vandalized and she was accosted by a star member of the men’s team. Kansas…

Mike Francesa Can't Fathom The Idea Of Women Coaching Men

Mike Francesa, a man who already has a tenuous grip on the world to start, struggled to be coherent when a caller asked if he could one day see a woman coaching a men’s professional sports team.

Newspaper Scientists Engineer Story That Will Make Everyone Self-Righteously Angry

It’s easy to write a story that pisses off one or two demographics. But how can you piss off every demographic simultaneously—all for different reasons? At last, the New York Times may have pinpointed how to accomplish this proud feat.

Becoming Ugly

In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them—and it was always the same one—would sneak behind me, slap me—and it was always me—on the ass and run away as I sputtered, angry and humiliated.

Carrie Fisher Really Wanted You To Know She Hated The Metal Bikini

Carrie Fisher, who endured questions about a single costume from a single scene in a long career for over 30 years, had no qualms about making it clear that she hated that goddamned metal bikini you all got your rocks off to as horny teenage boys. Fisher died Tuesday at age 60 after suffering a heart attack over the weekend.