If you’re a woman who has walked down a street at some point in your life, it’s likely that you have been catcalled — as in a completely strange man has yelled something unsolicited and unwelcome about your appearance as you strolled to the bus/exited a store/discussed your cat’s persistent vomiting on your cell with your mom (true story).

For a lot of women, these kinds of objectifying occurrences are unwanted — even scary sometimes — but for one New York Post writer, they’re flattering. In fact, she finds them so empowering that she thinks women should just “deal with it.”

16 Celebs Who Aren’t Afraid To Call Themselves Feminists

“When I know I’m looking good, I brazenly walk past a construction site, anticipating that whistle and ‘Hey, mama!’ catcall. Works every time — my ego and I can’t fit through the door!,” Doree Lewak wrote in an essay published this week, adding, “Oh, don’t go rolling those sanctimonious eyes at me, young women of Vassar: I may court catcalls, but I hold my head high. Enjoying male attention doesn’t make you a traitor to your gender.”

Lewak’s statements are as bold as her strut, so it’s no surprise that some denizens of the Internet didn’t exactly agree with her sentiments regarding street harassment, taking to Twitter to voice their frustrations.

In light of the digital dustup, we asked Roxane Gay, our favorite feminist and author of “Bad Feminist,” for her take. Check it out below and voice your ...

We’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift dancing like no one was watching for a while now, but on Monday, the 24-year-old musician finally brought her moves to the spotlight — in the form of her video for new single “Shake It Off.”

Via her Yahoo!-hosted live stream, Swift revealed not only the title of her upcoming record — 1989, due out October 27 — she also premiered the first single and its accompanying video. The clip is directed by Mark Romanek and features Taylor grooving with a myriad of dancers, all the while singing about shaking off the haters.

In introducing the vid, Tay joked (we think), “All I think about are metaphors and cats,” before explaining that she and Romanek chose this creative direction because “you can tell who someone is by the way they dance.”

That you can, Taylor. For example, we can tell you’re a free spirit, swaddled in rainbows, just itching to feel the sun break across your beaming face. And, dear Tay, we want to dance just like you, which is why we’ve deconstructed your moves below so that any and all hoofers can bust out your soul-soothing moves.

1.) Get into the right headspace

In order to truly let go like Taylor, one must get into the appropriate frame of mind. Here, we imagine Tay dreaming of sundresses, galloping unicorns and falling, giggling, into a sea of kittens that have forgotten that they have claws.

2.) Commit to those hand gestures

Read More →

One perk of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is getting to watch our favorite stars be reduced to shrieking, shaking, wet dogs of human beings as they help to raise awareness and money to fight Lou Gehrig’s Disease. So when we saw Britney and Miley‘s Ice Bucket videos, “one of these things is not like the others” danced through our heads.

The two pop stars took the challenge this week: Spears accepting after being nominated by her sister Jamie Lynn, and Miley taking up the mantle passed to her by her dad, Billy Ray.

Brit’s video is a thing of beauty. After nominating Adam Sandler, her boyfriend David Lucado and business manager Robin Greenhill, the “Perfume” singer shrieks — before the water even hits her head — shuffling off-screen after the downpour as what sounds like an expletive bursts from her lips. We could watch this little vid all day.

Miley, however, dumped a bucket of rice over her head — along with brother Braison. Yes, “rice.” With an “r.” The whole thing looked kind of like an enjoyable spa treatment of sorts. Still, the caption of the photo highlighted the importance of the cause: “#makeshithappen #donate #itaintaboutthepourinitsaboutthepayinandawareness http://www.alsa.org/”

Which pop star’s video do you prefer? Brit’s ice — or Miley’s rice?

Brenna Ehrlich

Brenna Ehrlich is a reporter for MTV News as well as the senior writer/editor for the O Music Awards. In the past, she served as associate editor at ...

Read More →

The MTV Video Music Awards are a night of many moods — joy! hilarity! drama! Our amazing roster of performers announced so far cover all those bases, and today (August 19), we’re primed to bring yet another emotion to the table: weeping, beautiful, glorious sorrow, courtesy of Sam Smith.

That’s right, the The Lonely Hour singer will join Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and more live onstage at the Forum in Inglewood, California, on Sunday, August 24.

As if the Artist To Watch/Best Male Video nominee’s impending performance weren’t exciting enough, we’ve also got word that a few more superstars will be hitting the stage: namely, a presenters’ list that includes Lorde, Demi Lovato, Taylor Schilling, Laverne Cox and Uzo Aduba from the cast of “Orange Is the New Black,” Dylan O’Brien from the forthcoming “Maze Runner” movie and “Teen Wolf,” “Vampire Diaries’” star Nina Dobrev, Jason Derulo and Trey Songz.

DJ Mustard will also be holding it down between sets as our house DJ.

But in order to embrace the tears that we’ll all undoubtedly shed come Sunday, we’ve compiled Sam’s nine most weep-worthy lyrics. Bathe your cheeks in saltwater now as training for the impending flood.

1.) ‘Although you made my heart sing, to stay with you would be wrong,’ ‘Good Thing’

2.) ‘And deep down I know this never works/ But you can lay with me so it doesn’t hurt,’ ‘Stay With ...