Dean Altman is a writer living in NYC.
How is it that some people still believe, in the year 2019, that the Earth is flat? How? And how are these people also somehow functional enough to get onto the internet, because honestly, thinking that Earth is anything other than the orb it is is just plain stupid. But while it’s actually terrifying that […] More
Ariana Grande performed at Coachella this past weekend and ended her set with a giant rainbow projection. This was taken by many as a statement of defiance against Philip Anschutz, the festival owner, who has made big donations to conservative Christian (anti-LGBTQ, pro-gun) organizations. ariana saying fuck it to the homophobic owner of coachella and […] More
When you’ve got a Big Opinion, you don’t want to waste it by posting it to Facebook, where only your friends will see it. No, you’ve gotta get it out to the big time—to Twitter, where people you’ll never meet can weigh in on it. So when Twitter user @yokaveli posted their take on the […] More
Sanitary products are going to be free in all schools in England, a measure the UK government has taken as a step to ending the country’s period poverty. The free products will reportedly benefit one in 10 girls who are not currently able to buy them on their own, which can result in girls missing […] More
Recently we posted about the ways that sexism can be so subtle and pervasive that we don’t even realize it’s there. We definitely still have different ways of talking about and treating men and women and that becomes clear when you take a situation and substitute one gender for another. A perfect example of this […] More
Some aspects of sexism are so pervasive we barely notice them. More
On April 10, a photograph of a black hole, the first ever taken, went viral. That was no surprise. But a second photo went viral, too—one of a woman named Dr. Katie Bouman, who was part of the team that captured the image, and that one wasn’t planned. The picture, which Bouman posted to her […] More
The thing about kids is that you can never, never, ever, never, ever, leave them alone, not even for a second. Obviously, that’s pretty much impossible, so that means that kids are going to get into trouble. It’s just a fact of life. They’re curious, the world exists, and stuff is going to come up. […] More
It probably won’t come as news to you that superstar rappers Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are not buddies. Last September, during New York Fashion Week, the two women got into a beef during Harper Bazaar’s ICONS party which included Cardi throwing a shoe at Nicki. View this post on Instagram Full video of the […] More
Getting texts from a wrong number isn’t common, but it does happen. Sometimes people choose to play along with texts for other people, for a laugh, but sometimes, the text is so weird you honestly just want to know what you ended up in the middle of. Like this text that @Kaytarasaurus received and (thankfully […] More
Abortion is legal in this country, but that fact apparently doesn’t register with everyone. There are still people who think they know better than any given woman confronted with the decision to terminate a pregnancy. These people don’t personally support abortion and feel the moral superiority to impose their own beliefs, regardless of what a […] More
Pop superstar Ariana Grande has been open with her fans about experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the massacre at her Manchester concert in 2017 that took the lives of 22 people and injured over 100 more. View this post on Instagram 🦇 A post shared by Ariana Grande (@arianagrande) on Apr 8, […] More
