Articles by Bertie Brandes
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Pretty Girl Bullshit
Twitter Thinks Angelina Jolie Is Nothing Without Breasts
Unfortunately, there are lots of stupid and insensitive people on the internet, and they're all tweeting the same gag about feeling sorry for Jolie's fiancé, Brad Pitt. I'm fully aware that the internet's capacity for idiocy far exceeds whatever energy I can muster to damn it. But it all just strikes me as being really, really lame. Full story
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Pretty Girl Bullshit
This Woman Who Hates Women Just Made My Day
Meet Claire Khaw, a British antifeminist who wants nothing more than to “restore the patriarchy by means of establishing a one-party theocracy based on the Koranic principles that will replace the immorality of feminism.” Her hateful madness makes Ann Coulter look like a member o… Full story
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Wavy Spice
Valerie Phillips shoots Harlem's new rap queenpin, with styling by Bertie Brandes and Charlotte Roberts. Full story
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Flasher Photography
A photo-shoot that is probably illegal and NSFW. Full story
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What Sort of Person Hates Barack Obama?
It doesn’t seem right, after such a win for democracy and liberalism, to mock those less fortunate than ourselves, so I’ve compiled a selection of tweets that can help us to empathize with Republicans everywhere, as well as to answer the question: What sort of person hates Barack… Full story
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Beauty School Dropout
I Made Our Interns Humiliate Each Other for Halloween
Originally, I wanted to personally humiliate our interns by dressing them up in the stupidest and most degrading costumes I could think of. Unfortunately, the killjoys in our HR department said I'm not allowed to do that, so instead I just gave them $30 each, told them to buy eac… Full story
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Beauty School Dropout
Recession-Proof Your Face
By covering it in food instead of make-up. Full story
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Beauty School Dropout
How to Look Hot at the Gym
Oh what, you thought the gym was a "safe zone"? You're a woman; there are no safe zones. Just waking up? Why aren’t your eyelashes tinted and curled, you pig? In the hospital having a transplant? Doesn’t mean your nails shouldn't be so shiny that you can see your own tears in the… Full story
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My Day Out with the London Seduction Society
The London Seduction Society is a group of morons with a website who roam around the city looking for girls to annoy. I thought it would be funny and depressing to join this herd of salivating sexual hypnotists for one of their walkabouts, so last Saturday I did just that. Full story
Thought and Memory
New Fiction by Ed Park
Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
The Strongest Dwarf in New Jersey
Remembering My Tormentor
Gay Men and Their Misogyny Problem
It's Not Cute Anymore
Triple Hate - Part 1
The KKK vs. the Crips vs. Memphis City Council
Saudi Arabia's Feminist Revolution
It's Not Happening