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Peta’s Fail Whale

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) does not see fit to extend the same moral courtesy to human animals, specifically the female kind. In the organization’s latest sexist campaign for vegetarianism, an overweight woman in a bikini is faced with the emboldened slogan: “Save the Whales”. Beneath the words runs a helpful tagline: “Lose the blubber: go vegetarian.”

Come on gals, take a joke. What’s a little fat-shaming in pursuit of a good time?

There’s no shortage of adjectives (or profanities) that come to mind to describe such a …

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It's a Man's World in China Now More Than Ever

China Migrants

They wanted boys and now they have them in droves in China with 18 million more men than women and the testosterone count still growing.

The highly disproportionate ratio sees some 116 male babies to every 100 females born every year in China. The government’s rigid one-child-per-couple policy along with select-sex abortions and a traditional preference for sons has skewed the sexual ratio to an unhealthy level, as unhealthy as the sexist attitudes that helped foster the crisis.

According to USA Today, as many as 40 million Chinese men (mostly poor …

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Women: Sustainable, But Soooo Inconvenient

Gaia, -1. As seen on Reddit, the lap pillow. It’s the simultaneous decimation of any shred of hope for humanity and perverse rubbernecking wonder at such cultural discoveries followed by intense psychological concern for oneself that only Reddit can so reliably provide. Surely there is a German word for this.

Anna N. of Jezebel says: “Ever want to just rest your head in a woman’s lap, without those pesky arms, torso, and head leaning over you and complicating matters?”

Polyurethane laps: because the environment was doing entirely too well …

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