Break Ups #IDumpedTaylorSwiftBecause On Friday, the hashtag #IDumpedTaylorSwiftBecause was a global trending topic. People were weighing in on her breakup with Calvin Harris by tweeting stupidity like this: #IDumpedTaylorSwiftBecause she wears granny panties— Marshall (@MarshallSbar) June 3, 2016 I was expecting the sexist backlash that would inevitably come after this breakup. I was By Kathleen • Jun 06, 2016 01:12 pm
Equality Issues Matt Damon & Ben Affleck: “Dickheads of the Decade” The Spike Guys’ Choice Awards happened this weekend. The show will air on Spike on Thursday. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck received the Guys of the Decade Award and everybody was all excited about seeing them together again. This is what happened during their acceptance: “I think it goes without By Lainey • Jun 06, 2016 10:17 am
Break Ups Amber’s texts Yesterday I posted about the texts allegedly exchanged between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s assistant, Stephen Deuters, that seem to corroborate her claims that Johnny abused her repeatedly. Click here for a refresher. Stephen has since spoken to TMZ, of course, insisting that the texts were doctored: Johnny Depp& By Lainey • Jun 03, 2016 11:37 am
Douchebags Keira Knightley receives apology Director John Carney has apologized for his intentional, targeted disrespect toward Keira Knightley during an interview for Sing Street, a movie she doesn’t even appear in. His apology appears on his Twitter account, which he apparently temporarily deleted because of the negative attention coming his way. So, there you By Duana • Jun 02, 2016 03:36 pm
Dumbass Kit Harington and sexism Kit Harington spoke to The Sunday Times and for some reason he talked about sexism. And this is what he offered on the subject: “I think there is a double standard. If you said to a girl, ‘Do you like being called a babe?’ and she said, ‘No, not really, By Lainey • Jun 01, 2016 04:21 pm
Top Reads Amber Heard: the December photos As mentioned in the open, Amber Heard covers the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine. The injuries on her face were allegedly sustained during an incident with Johnny Depp in December. According to Page Six, during the argument, Johnny also allegedly tried to smother Amber with a pillow. You’ll recall, By Lainey • Jun 01, 2016 10:23 am
Douchebags Keira Knightley’s Douchebag Director My relaxing weekend became rage-filled Saturday, when I read “Keira Knightley’s performance in ‘Begin Again’ criticised by director John Carney”. I know. “Director who?” I’ll tell you, but read the article anyway. I want you to understand exactly what kind of insecure pustule we’re dealing with here. By Duana • May 30, 2016 11:07 am
TV Updates The love story of Rachel and Quinn Just yesterday, Lainey wrote about how workplace competition between females is often viewed as petty, unsupportive, disloyal and something that should be tampered down and hidden. This made me think of UnREAL, particularly Rachel and Quinn’s relationship, which mixes mentor/mentee, mother/daughter, enemy/friend, adversary/ally. In a By Maria • May 25, 2016 11:21 am
Business of Hollywood Working with auteurs made Chloe Sevigny hate directors Chloe Sevigny is doing the rounds for her new movie, Love & Friendship, and while promoting it she gave an interview to The Guardian in which she says that working with auteurs has given her “a total disdain for directors” that is “very strong, very deep”. “Auteur” is one of By Sarah • May 17, 2016 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita Nyong’o Defends Broadway For most of yesterday morning, we were obsessing over Lupita Nyong’o’s hair at the Met Gala. I’m still not over it. Here’s what she just Instagrammed this morning about her inspiration: Hair Inspiration. Check. @vernonfrancois @voguemagazine #metball2016 A video posted by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) By Kathleen • May 04, 2016 11:31 am
Dumbass Is it bad to be Becky? It happens to all of us eventually—I got into a Twitter fight with Iggy Azalea, and I won. Okay, no. Not exactly. What actually happened is that Azalea, who is…exhausting, at best… got offended when someone referred to her as ‘Becky’. Not implying she was the actual “Becky By Duana • Apr 27, 2016 01:14 pm
TV Updates Kelly Ripa returns In my post about Kelly Ripa last week, I wrote that they set her up to fail. Click here for a refresher. “They” would be the network executives, who thought it would be a good idea to not tell her that they were making a profound change to her show By Lainey • Apr 26, 2016 11:29 am
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Declaration It is important that the word ‘black’ is in this headline. A few outlets have omitted that word from the bolded titles of their respective Lemonade reviews. They’ve focused on the visual album’s Southern Gothic influences, the fashion, and Becky. Yes, all of those things are worthy of By Kathleen • Apr 25, 2016 09:31 am
Music Lemonade: Beyoncé’s Black Feminist Domination Please note: Kathleen’s piece on Beyoncé will follow mine. Because there’s just so much to unpack. You could write a think-piece on every single frame of Lemonade and it almost still wouldn’t be enough. Lemonade, of course, as you know now, is Beyoncé’s visual album, which By Lainey • Apr 25, 2016 09:09 am
Girly Throw Downs Drama at Live! I’m sure you’ve heard about what’s happening at Live! with Kelly and Michael. Kelly Ripa apparently found out after the show on Tuesday that Michael Strahan would be leaving their show to be on Good Morning America, and supposedly she’s so pissed about not being told By Lainey • Apr 21, 2016 12:56 pm
Music JLO’s airport kiss Jennifer Lopez is getting some heat for her new song, Ain’t Your Mama. First of all, as I mentioned yesterday in Smutty Tingles, it’s a terrible song – written by Meghan Trainor and produced by Dr Luke. Which is the problem. Ain’t Your Mama is, supposedly, a feminist By Lainey • Apr 08, 2016 12:58 pm
