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Apparently it’s #NationalNudeDay. The best way to celebrate? With … Peloton?!?

Everyone’s favorite exercise bike brand has done it again: gone viral. While their first viral video broke the internet unintentionally, in its aftermath, they’ve since capitalized on the hilarity of it and become master marketers.

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Today Is Ja Rule's 11th Birthday

Though he'll be 44 years old, the rapper is one of a handful of celebrities celebrating a leap day birthday.

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Being born on February 29th comes with a special kind of strangeness—almost like a crappy superpower.

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Don't Drop The Soap: Reckoning With Male Rape Jokes in Pop Culture

There's a gendered double-standard to sexual assault, but you might be surprised by who's behind it.

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TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault, Rape, Non-consent

In a video essay posted to the Pop Culture Detective YouTube channel, media critic Jonathan McIntosh deep dives into pop culture's prevailing representations of sexual assault against men as comedy.

Divided across two half-hour videos, "Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 1 Male Perpetrators" and "Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 2 Female Perpetrators," McIntosh establishes a disturbing pattern behind the language and ideology of male sexual assault "humor."

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