It’s hard to believe it’s only been two months since the contentious Senate confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who testified about her alleged sexual assault by Kavanaugh as a teenager, those two months have likely felt like a lifetime. In early October, Blasey Ford said…
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It’s the beginning of November, and you know what that means: This holiday season is upon us. We’ve reached that transitional time when Halloween decorations are replaced by winter ones overnight—and when gift sets start appearing on shelves. Among the holiday products that have come out so far, I already found the one holiday-themed lipstick…
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Too Faced is celebrating its twentieth birthday this year, and with the brand’s inclination for everything pink, flashy, and over-the-top, it’s going big on glitter and nostalgia for the milestone. And also: birthday sex! It’s true: The brand is releasing a limited anniversary edition of its famous Better Than Sex Mascara, which is the most-pinned,…
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Back in November, in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the rise of the #MeToo movement, members of the cast and crew of One Tree Hill—including Sophia Bush and Hilarie Burton—released a letter accusing the creator of that show, Mark Schwahn, of sexual harassment. “Many of us were, to varying degrees, manipulated psychologically…
Read moreBetween the sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and the flood of women sharing similar experiences through the hashtag #MeToo, workplace harassment is receiving more attention than ever (and it’s about time). What so many of these stories share is men using their power over women at work to get away with such…
Read moreThe #Gamergate cyberattack against Brianna Wu, in which an Internet mob terrorized the software engineer after she spoke out against sexism and misogyny in the gaming industry, was tactically elegant in its launch and spectacularly cruel in its delivery. At its height in 2014, she saw her home address and personal information scrawled across the…
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