Category: Controversy
It might be November, but the Bill Cosby Halloween costume controversy continues to captivate onlookers. Nicki Minaj waded into the ongoing #PillCosby debate with a Halloween Instagram post in which she appeared to take defenders to task. But is the issue that simple? Read on to see what she said–and to see what you think about #PillCosby!
Time's annual "Most Influential Teens" issue has rankled feathers once again, and the same people who objected to a "Kylie Jenner most influential" award in 2014 remain against it now. For the second consecutive year, Time named Kylie to its list of 30 teens–which irks critics, who say that the 18-year-old is influential for the wrong reasons. What does Kylie have to say about all this? Read on...to find out.
The "Bobby Flay naked dancers" fiasco has gone viral–probably because people can't figure out exactly what in the heck happened to Flay at the New York Food and Wine festival this past weekend. The Times Square Desnudas, a group of topless women who pose for photos and sometimes dance with tourists, were hired to parade past Flay with the word "Cheater!" emblazoned on each of their chests. Why? And who hired them to do this? The plot thickens like a good southwestern chili...
Sports Illustrated model Robyn Lawley has set off a firestorm of commentary following a post-pregnancy photo she shared on Facebook. In the photo, Lawley calls her stretchmarks "bada** tiger stripes" and takes the whole notion of body shaming to task. Read on to see the Robyn Lawley stretchmark photo in question–and to read Robyn's full criticism of the body-shaming industry.
The phrase "Amy Schumer joke thief" seemed impossible only a few days ago. Over the past week, though, Schumer has been hit with multiple counts of thievery–and, while the first round of allegations came from Reddit, the most recent accusations come from some of her fellow comedians, who claim she's broken a cardinal rule of the craft.
Editorial columns are generally polarizing, but one writer for the Daily Mail really seemed to drum up controversy when she argued airplanes should charge overweight people more...and it's clear the writer wasn't interested in being tactful at all.
Mia Matsumiya, a Los Angeles-based violinist, has been receiving disgusting, aggressive, sexual social media messages for more than ten years. Now that she's saved well over a thousand of them, Matsumiya has decided to create an alter ego–the "Perv Magnet"–to share the treatment she's received, and help shine a light on the pervasiveness of online harassment.
When Jennifer Lawrence decided to write a brief essay about the gender wage gap in Hollywood, she didn't mess around! Get the Oscar winner's unfiltered reaction after she learned she made less than her male co-stars following the Sony hack.
As more and more cities proclaim the second Monday of October Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day, it's creating a debate about the legacy of the man who "sailed the ocean blue in 1492"–and whether it is worth celebrating at all. See the arguments people in favor of "Indigenous Peoples' Day" are making...
A Texas-based textbook publisher is under fire and promising to make revisions after an image of one of its book's sections on slavery went viral. What's the controversy? The Texas textbook photo refers to slaves as "workers"–a whitewashing that's prompted ire from a number of sources. Read on for the original photo, and a bevy of reactions.
The ongoing Kylie Jenner N-word controversy continues to dog the 18-year-old reality TV star. Earlier this week, Kylie appeared to present a close friend with a birthday cake emblazoned with the phrase "Happy Birthday N*gga." Kylie denies all involvement, but the bevy of photographs of the event have complicated matters.
After her "Dear Fat People" video garnered a huge amount of negative attention, YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour appears to be embracing the "no such thing as bad publicity" concept with yet another controversial video that has a lot of folks angry -- this time about abortion.
