The Ice Bucket challenge was a big hit for our friends at Deadspin, and it was a big hit for us. Men and women might be from Mars and Venus, but those planets are still in the same viral galaxy ;).
Kara Brown has been responsible for some of the best Ferguson coverage out there. In this early piece, she captured some of the original rage that had just started echoing across the nation.
A post that proves that sometimes all it takes is the right combination of words in a headline and a little Facebook magic. Watching this blow up was one of the funniest, most inexplicable (but also most explicable) things I’ve seen in a long time.
After Elliot Rodger’s attack at UCSB, Erin Gloria Ryan went where no one in their right mind would ever want to go: into the forum PUAHate, where Rodger spent his time discussing how terrible women are. “Elliot Rodger and company aren’t the mentally ill outliers that the media (and the NRA) depicts them as,” she concluded. “They’re much more common than we want them to be.”
Here are some other stories you enjoyed on Jezebel this year. Thanks for clicking on things!