Новости за 24.03.2021

Another year, another day to commemorate the gap between men and women’s pay. That’s right, it is Equal Pay Day, a day where brands, corporations, and governments pretend for an entire 24 hours that they are committed to closing the gender pay gap by either selling you something or outsourcing the problem to another…

At some point in the future, Amazon will release a Lord of the Rings series focusing on what Nerdist tells me is the “rise and the fall of the island kingdom of Númenor.” Those words mean very little to me, a casual “fan” of the Lord of the Rings franchise, but the rest of the words that followed this information are…

“I’m just going to say it all and if we don’t want to use it, we can take it out,” declares singer-songwriter Demi Lovato toward the beginning of Michael D. Ratner’s limited documentary series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil. The project, which focuses on her 2018 overdose, goes out of its way to underline…

In 2008, two years after Edna Lewis, the Grand Dame of Southern Cooking died, Gourmet published an essay written by Lewis that serves as a de facto manifesto for the way she lived her life through food. In it, she acknowledges that the food we traditionally think of as Southern now was the food made by “blacks, men…

There’s reason to believe that men, and particularly men with conservative values and politics, were less likely than everyone else to take covid-19 precautions seriously—slapping a face mask on one’s face is, apparently, emasculating. Now that same attitude seems to have extended to getting the covid-19 vaccine.

In the wake of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, there was a brief flurry of performative public apologies to Spears from those claiming that, at the time, they did not understand that publicly mocking her breakdown and subsequent conservatorship was wrong. And the recent re-examination of the ways in which the…

Stop me if you’ve heard this before but Prince Harry got a job. Another one. In the span of a few months, a man who walked away from an incredibly wealthy family now has two C-suite level roles. (But for years I could not achieve my dream job of becoming a Starbucks barista because I didn’t have enough experience in…

On Tuesday afternoon, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota and the non-profit Gender Justice announced a $300,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed against the Anoka-Hennepin School District about its mistreatment of a trans student. Specifically, the school prevented the student from using the locker rooms…

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On Tuesday, Medium CEO Ev Williams announced to the entire staff of Medium that the company would be pivoting away from journalism and “giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.” In other words, they’re not firing people (yet), but it sure would be nice if all of the Medium…

Bridal designer Hayley Paige Gutman is suing Joseph Murphy, the CEO of fashion brand JLM Couture, alleging that he sexually harassed her and otherwise created a hostile work environment. Gutman, who is best known for her appearances on Say Yes to the Dress, began working for fashion company JLM Couture in 2011 and has…

It has been some time since I’ve watched Real Housewives of Atlanta, but if memory serves, Kenya Moore is not the brightest candle in the chandelier. My most recent memory of her is something something “Gone With the Wind fabulous,” so I suppose it is not surprising that she is in trouble or something like it for her…

Nearly 21 years after the Columbine High School massacre, America is still trying to decide whether or not assault rifles and the influence of the gun lobby are more important than human lives, with all the usual sound and fury that has heretofore signified nothing.