A Rebellion of Shoulders and Knees: Dress Codes Finally Getting Criticized
As the warm weather season approaches, school administrators across the United States and Canada seem to have a new goal: enforcing the dress code. Girls all-over are being sent home or reprimanded for wearing leggings, yoga pants, sleeveless shirts, and other “revealing” items of clothing. In Quebec, a girl was reprimanded and criticized for wearing […]
Death by Misogyny
Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions of murder, shootings, and violence against women, as well as the misogynistic words of an alleged mass murderer. “I am polite. I am the ultimate gentleman, and yet, you girls never give me a chance. I don’t know why.” In a YouTube video entitled “Why do girls hate me […]
In the Name of Science?
On Friday, May 16th, a research whaling fleet left Shimonoseki, Japan consisting of two ships, the 754-ton Yushin Maru and 8,145-ton Nisshin Maru. The departure comes one and a half months after the International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled Japan’s supposed “scientific” whaling in the Antarctic in violation of the 1986 moratorium on […]
Unusual Cruelty: The Arbitrary Death Sentence
Ray Jasper, a death row inmate, did not commit murder. The person who did commit the murder was not sentenced to death. Jasper describes this seeming injustice in a recent letter to Gawker “Under the Texas law of parties, they say it doesn’t matter whether I killed the victim or not, I’m criminally responsible for […]
Dirty Chocolate Over Condoms: Why Abstinence-Only Education Fails America
According to sex education classrooms across America, people who have sex are dirty chocolate, used tape, chewed-up gum, cups of spit, roses without petals. Once teenagers participate in sexual intercourse, they somehow lose value and worth, being someone their “future husband” or “future wife” would not want. Instead of extensively discussing the use of condoms, […]
Hollywood Is Still a White Man’s Business
Hollywood is very white. Minorities are underrepresented by a factor of three to one as in lead roles in film and as film directors. Oscar voters are 94% white. Out of the hundreds of actors and actresses nominated for Academy Awards, only 45 of them were of African-American descent. Out of the 45, only 13 […]
Galveston Bay Collison: Another Incident of Oil Industry Amnesia
Monday, March 24th, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which dumped 11 million gallons (40 million liters) into the Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. This shocking disaster had a profound environmental impact, which continues to this day. The spill acted as a wake-up call to many, yet in […]