Kim Kardashian is best known as the ex-wife of musician and businessman Kanye West. And as the daughter of a lawyer who helped secure the acquittal of acknowledged double murderer O.J. Simpson. She may not have the musical talents of her (third) ex-husband but as far as the law goes, the apple didn’t fall far […]
Feminism is presented to the world by its advocates as a benign movement for necessary social change. In reality it is no such thing. The Australian feminist Van Badham said it is a movement for equality that has never thrown a bomb or fired a gun. She may well believe that, but she is wrong […]
if you haven’t heard of Alexi McCammond, she might have recently been described as a rising star in the American media. She describes herself as a young woman of color, that awful American phrase that divides the human species into whites and everyone else. She was supposed to be taking over as editor of Teen […]
In May 2014, two 12 year old girls lured a third into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. This was the utterly bizarre Slender Man case. One blow connected with Payton Leutner’s heart; a millimetre the other way, and she would have been killed, but incredibly she survived and made a miraculous recovery, though of course no one recovers totally psychologically from something so horrific.
Or perhaps that should be nasty and nastier. If you haven’t heard of Jessica Valenti, she is the attractive woman photographed above. She is thirteen years older now, but at the age of 41 she is still a looker; objectively she is at least 8 out of 10 on looks alone. Sadly, that is where her attractiveness ends.
In August 2004, Cyntoia Brown murdered an innocent man, shooting him through the back of his head as he lay sleeping. Released from prison this August after being granted clemency by the Governor of Tennessee, she has been transformed into an advocate for exploited women and girls, a passionate opponent of sex trafficking. Is this a road to Damascus conversion or a genuine case of rehabilitation?
