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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon Is ‘Not Ready’ to Speak About Joss Whedon Allegations: ‘It’s Very Personal for Me’
Taking his time. Nicholas Brendon told fans that he won’t be discussing the allegations against Joss Whedon after Buffy the Vampire Slayer costar Charisma Carpenter claimed that he displayed abusive behavior on set.
'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Cast Addresses Joss Whedon Scandal
“I’m not speaking on Joss yet,” Brendon, 49, explained in a Facebook Live video on Monday, February 15, as he prepared to undergo spinal surgery. “It’s very personal for me, so I’ll speak on that when I’m ready to speak on that because he and I had a relationship. It’s a big part of my life, a very emotional part of my life and I want to give it the proper respect and time that it deserves.”
Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon Is ‘Not Ready’ to Speak About Joss Whedon Allegations: ‘It’s Very Personal for Me’
Favreau & Pascal Caught In ‘Mandalorian’ Controversy
Over the past several months, opposing hashtags — #FireGinaCarano, #WeLoveCaraDune, and #IStandWithGinaCarano — all trended at various points in time. The former women’s MMA fighter frequently thanked her supporters and clapped back at her “haters” with various posts, including a Yoda meme and a Princess Bride quote.
The straw that broke the camel’s back in regard to Gina Carano was a Tweet that many deemed anti-Semitic. The Hollywood Reporter shared Lucasfilm’s official statement about firing the Star Wars actress:
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Almost immediately after news about Carano’s firing broke, social media users began noting that Pascal, too, has previously shared a post that compared modern day American culture to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Favreau & Pascal Caught In ‘Mandalorian’ Controversy
‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot
Wendy Mize’s family grew up on Publix, disciples to the giant supermarket chain’s empirical marketing slogan: “Where shopping is a pleasure”. As infants, her three daughters wore diapers bought from the Publix baby club. As children, they munched on free cookies from the bakery. There were even perks for the family’s pets, who are proud members of Publix Paws.
But now the decades-long love affair is over. After a member of Publix’s founding family donated $300,000 to the Donald Trump rally that preceded January’s deadly Capitol riots, Mize is pulling out of what she says has become “an abusive, dysfunctional relationship”, and joining others in a boycott of the Florida-based grocery chain that operates more than 1,200 stores across seven south-eastern states.
‘The last straw’: the US families ending love affair with grocery chain after Capitol riot
Halle Berry Responds to Trolls Who Say She 'Can’t' Keep a Man': 'Who Said I Wanted to Keep Them?'
Halle Berry is firing back at online trolls who targeted her and her love life.
One online troll caught Berry's attention when they commented, "With all of your accomplishments, fame, beauty, it seems, as if, you CAN'T keep a man," to which Berry replied with, "Who said I wanted to keep them?
Halle Berry Responds to Trolls Who Say She 'Can’t' Keep a Man': 'Who Said I Wanted to Keep Them?'
Bill Maher defends Armie Hammer over allegations of emotional and physical abuse
Bill Maher has defended Armie Hammer after numerous women accused the actor of emotional and physical abuse.
Last week (February 5), Maher came to Hammer’s defence on his show Real Time with Bill Maher. “I think we can talk about this in relation to where feminism is because, apparently, Armie Hammer has a predilection to tell his dates he wants to ‘eat’ them,” he said. “And who wouldn’t want to be eaten by Armie Hammer? Come on.”
Bill Maher defends Armie Hammer over allegations of emotional and physical abuse
Brandi Glanville tells embattled Armie Hammer he can have her rib cage
’90 Day Fiancé’: Brittany Banks Tells Haters to ‘Suck a Dick’ Among Ongoing Concerns Over Yazan
90 Day Fiancé fans have been concerned for Yazan lately. Ever since his relationship with Brittany Banks took off, his life has become increasingly difficult. His parents are not fond of Banks and her lifestyle at all, and his decision to pursue her has resulted in him winding up homeless and jobless. Now, as fans slam Banks for seeming uncaring during all of this, she’s fighting back.
’90 Day Fiancé’: Brittany Banks Tells Haters to ‘Suck a Dick’ Among Ongoing Concerns Over Yazan
How cable TV and sensationalized crime reporting led to 'cancel culture'
Parenting in America underwent a profound change in the 1980s. The meteoric rise of cable television and a relentless, crime-obsessed news cycle fueled the perception that violent criminals lurked around every corner. Missing, abducted and murdered children became the topics of breathless news coverage. Parents, consciously or not, embraced a mindset of “That could happen here, to my child.”
The culture of “safetyism,” which overestimates danger, fetishizes safety and allows for zero risk, came to define parenting in America. Parents with more realistic perceptions of danger were shamed into joining this cult of overprotection. Others were forced into conformity by absurd local laws and regulations.
As a result, kids stopped playing outside. Fewer and fewer “free range” children ventured out and scraped their knees exploring the world around them.
The sharp decline of free play also meant that kids stopped resolving conflicts by themselves, without a parent to sort things out for them.
As New York University professor Jonathan Haidt and co-author Greg Lukianoff argue in their groundbreaking book, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” the rise of overly protective parents led to a generation of extremely fragile young adults.
The Hill
Sex Clubs Are Reopening Amid Coronavirus
Ready or not, the country is forging ahead with its coronavirus reopening plan, and that includes the return of sex clubs.
The New York Post reports exclusive SoHo sex club New Society For Wellness — abbreviated NSFW, get it? — is preparing to welcome members back for socially distanced fun, but things will look different than they did pre-pandemic. According to the Post, the club has outlined various new rules and guidelines for coronavirus-safe sex.
Inside Hook
Matt Gaetz's bizarre shoutout to his son Nestor instantly became a copypasta meme
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz wants the world to know about his large adult son, Nestor. And his announcement is now a Twitter copypasta.
Nestor's existence came up during a heated exchange about race and police reform between Rep. Gaetz and Rep. Cedric Richmond during a House Judiciary meeting on Thursday.
During the discussion on whether to label antifa, the decentralized political protest movement, as a terrorist organization, Richmond complained that the Republicans on the committee, who were all white, were stalling. F
Mashable
The secret gay history of Islam
Islam once considered homosexuality to be one of the most normal things in the world.
The Ottoman Empire, the seat of power in the Muslim world, didn’t view lesbian or gay sex as taboo for centuries. They formally ruled gay sex wasn’t a crime in 1858.
But as Christians came over from the west to colonize, they infected Islam with homophobia.
The truth is many Muslims alive today believe the prophet Muhammad supported and protected sexual and gender minorities.
But go back to the beginning, and you’ll see there is far more homosexuality in Islam than you might have ever thought before.
Ancient Muslim borrowed culture from the boy-loving Ancient Greeks:
The Islamic empires, (Ottoman, Safavid/Qajar, Mughals), shared a common culture. And it shared a lot of similarities with the Ancient Greeks.
Persianate cultures, all of them Muslim, dominated modern day India and Arab world. And it was very common for older men to have sex with younger, beardless men. These younger men were called ‘amrad’.
Gay Star News
When my ex fell in love again, I stalked his new relationship online for a year
I remember feeling weightless leaving the apartment of my ex, knowing it would be the last time.
I remember texting a friend asking if I could come over to talk. Calling my dad to wish him a belated happy birthday, and being so in shock about the breakup that I pretended I was OK.
After almost two years of fighting for the love of my life, I couldn’t fathom him being gone.
I blocked my ex at first, along with most of his friends and family. I even mustered the strength to throw out our mementos. Delete texts, pictures. But a couple weeks later, he popped up in his roommate’s Snapchat story.
It was Ricardo’s birthday party (fake name), a friend who my ex’s roommate introduced us to at Pride the month before. My ex, Ricardo, and I had hung out as a group and had a great time. But this Snapchat of them leaning their heads together with carefree smiles caught me off-guard. I reassured myself it was nothing, just friends taking a drunken picture.
Gay Star News
This is what happened each time I showed public affection to someone
OK, I admit it. Nothing makes me want to barf more than an over-zealous display of public affection.
Seeing an improbably gorgeous woman locking lips with her jawbone hunk boyfriend makes me want to have my mind wiped. Especially when it’s in the middle of the street. More so if it’s during my lunch break, particularly when it’s right in front of my salad.
Do you want to know why it riles me up so much? It’s because as a gay man, I’m not afforded such simple luxuries.
Gay Star News
I Was Outed To My Entire Family When I Was 11
Growing up in a small, culturally conservative, Christian town in middle Georgia, I felt obligated to convince myself that I was straight, even though I knew that I had an underlying conflict with my sexuality that stemmed from getting caught in a same-sex experiment with a girl in my neighborhood when I was 7.
While her family responded to the incident with outrage, mine responded with mere shock and discomfort ? passing it off as a one-time experience between two friends. I attempted avoiding my sexuality after this experiment, though I constantly found myself suffering through elementary school crushes on girls. This led to me continuously returning home holding in this secret that slowly began to unfold ? I was into girls.
Huffington Post
Sex assaults on planes rise at 'an alarming rate' — and are likely undercounted
Sexual assaults on flights are increasing “at an alarming rate,” FBI Special Agent David Rodski told reporters last week. “We’re not sure why.”
The FBI investigated 63 reports of sexual assault on planes last year, a 66 percent increase from the 38 investigated in 2014, Rodski said. The spike may have been driven in part by more people reporting the crime, but the latest figure still likely represents just a fraction of such incidents, since assault victims often choose not to come forward. And even if they do, there's no regulatory agency that comprehensively tracks the reports.
NBC News
The secret gay history of Winston Churchill
When the first discussions about whether to decriminalize gay sex in the UK reached the cabinet, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister.
His words at that meeting set in motion the creation of the Wolfenden Report – a government sanctioned investigation into homosexuality. This would eventually lead to the partial decriminalization of gay sex.
But the Prime Minister did this at a time when LGBTI lives were totally closeted. And while leading the right-wing Conservative party.
So did he simply hold liberal views, or was he leading a secret double life?
Gay Star News