Like an awkward adolescent at a party, Facebook has always had trouble with the ladies. Whether they are banning breasts, or the scars that show where those breasts used to be, it is clear that any reference to female sexuality is verboten. The puerile censors who scan the pages for obscene content have trouble telling ...
New South Publishing wants to eliminate all Niggers from Huckleberry Finn. “Nigger” was once commonly used to describe people of African descent. Although, at the time, the word had no derogatory meaning, the terrible way blacks were treated at the time tainted the word with awful associations. History made this word offensive. But when the ...
I never realized that scars were considered sexual and obscene. Breast cancer survivors put up pictures of mastectomy scars to ”break down prejudice about cancer sufferers” but Facebook marked them as obscene and removed them. These were part of a fundraiser where “cancer patients were asked to pose for black and white pictures ‘to prove the disease could ...
Comedians don’t expect to get much — except for laughs. However they do get an award — the Mark Twain Prize for Humour is given each year for contributions to American comedy. This year Tina Fey won, but part of her acceptance speech was censored. Bizarrely it was about Sarah Palin, the figure she was praised ...
Craigslist has come under fire, or been under a constant barrage of bullets, because of their adult services section. Critics claim that the site’s lack of supervision mean that it is being used to sell the sexual services of trafficked people and children. Two weeks ago, 17 state attorneys in the United States asked the ...
I was sitting on the couch and enjoying Hung, when suddenly I saw something so shocking that I almost spit out the chocolate pudding I was eating. The series is about a man who falls on hard times and decides to become a prostitute. His female pimp is a hapless poet. It is generally light ...
Vulvas are great. Ladies like’em and most men I’ve spoken to are big fans. But for some reason Facebook has decided that they are icky. If you discuss them on your Facebook page then your account might get deleted, without any warning.
Sit-ins are out. Love-ins, passé. Porn storms are the new way to protest. It brought the Australian government to its knees (kinda).
So, yet again, Morning Quickie is bringing you a censorship story from the concerned parents of America. This time a school district banned Anne Frank’s Diary because of one parent’s concern “about the sexual nature of the vagina passage”. That’s right, only one person in the entire school district in Virginia thinks the passage is ...
Yes, you read that right. Because a dictionary contains “oral sex” schools in a district of California have pulled it from the shelves. This really is censorship gone mad.
Dear Madame X, I suspect that one of my female co-workers might have a crush on me. I think...
After the publication of his fourth and most successful novel The Slap, which was turned into a TV miniseries...
The phrase “working mother” is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
Ali G interviews Naomi Wolf about feminism!
Some men are leg men. Some like bottoms. Some prefer breasts. Some men even like personalities. Me, I’m a...
Bloody Facebook. I knew there was a reason I became a reluctant convert. It’s all very well having hilarious...
Looks like the producers of Jersey Shore just got more than they bargained for! Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, one of...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend has grown a beard and I hate it! Can I tell him to shave?...
