Category: Controversy
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.
The latest Donald Trump controversy of Campaign 2016 emerged on Friday, the morning after Trump failed to correct a man who called President Obama a Muslim and who said Obama "isn't even American." Fellow candidates from both parties were swift to condemn Trump's remark; Trump himself has not commented on the flap. Read on to see video of the event.
