Posts Tagged ‘Georgetown’
GW Grad Claims MTV Made Him A “Womanizing Jerk”
Freddie Fackelmayer, a 2005 graduate of the George Washington University, wants everyone to know that he’s not a “womanizing jerk.” Fackelmayer just finished up a stint as fake boyfriend to reality television star Whitney Port on MTV’s “The City,” a fake show about Port’s real life working in the fashion industry, a career she secured by virtue of being a reality television star. Anyway, Fackelmayer recently granted an interview with the G.W. Hatchet about how his fake relationship with a reality television star was totally misrepresented on the T.V.!
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Spot Your Local Tucker Max Douchebag!
Tucker Max, professional sexist, swung through College Park, Md., and Washington, D.C., last month to help promote his new movie, “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell.” Tucker Max events, you may be surprised to learn, can actually prove helpful to us feminists. Max has the power to gather all the local sexist douchebags into one convenient location for an evening, and that makes those people a lot easier to identify (and mock). But if you didn’t have the heart to trudge out and ridicule the hordes of Tucker Max fans in person, it’s not too late to get in on the fun. Max has graciously provided anecdotal and recorded evidence of the tour’s douchiest attendees for us! See if you can spot any douches from your workplace, biology class, or overpriced Georgetown lounge:
American Apparel “Legalize Gay” Vandalism Inspires Support, Security
On Wednesday, American Apparel’s Silver Spring store received the chain’s latest threatening phone call in response to its anti-Prop-8 “Legalize Gay” T-shirts.
“Five minutes ago, I just answered the phone and got a death threat from a man with a bad phone connection,” the female Silver Spring employee wrote to superiors in an e-mail. The caller asked the employee why the pro-gay shirts were still on display, then threatened to take action. He said, “If I didn’t take it down, bad things can happen to me, resulting in drastic measures,” she wrote.
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American Apparel Windows Will Stay Gay
This week, hooligans targeted a couple of local American Apparel stores over the stores’ prominent “Legalize Gay” T-Shirt displays. On Monday, a window at the Silver Spring location was shattered. Yesterday, an anonymous caller informed the Georgetown location that as long as “Legalize Gay” is on display, the storefronts can expect more broken glass.
American Apparel isn’t scared.
Gay T-Shirts In Windows A Problem For American Apparel
A local vandal may have found an antidote for the “Legalize Gay” T-shirts that have popped up in American Apparel window displays around the D.C. area—eliminate the window.
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What Is “Sex Positive” Porn?
“Sex-positive porn”: Actually just like regular porn, but with hipsters.
Molly Redden from The Georgetown Voice is exhaustively covering the university’s “Sex Positive Week” over at student blog Vox Populi. Some Hoyas are pissed off that GU is helping fund the week’s activities. So—what exactly are they upset about? What does “Sex Positive” mean, anyway?
Georgetown “Cuddler” Does More Than Cuddle
Molly Redden over at Georgetown student blog Vox Populi wrote a great primer yesterday on the history of the scourge to the Georgetown campus known only as the “Georgetown Cuddler.” The Cuddler is a sexual assailant who’s been linked to as many as seven assaults around campus (and possibly more near the University of Maryland). In one incident, the suspect “entered [the victim's] bedroom, got into her bed, and put his arm around her.”
Cuddler, eh? That’s a pretty good nickname for a villain who holds damsels hostage, thwarts heroes, etc. (Redden credits the UMD Diamondback with first coining the name). As a real threat to a community, though, it’s a bit of a misnomer. Oh yes, the Cuddler does more than cuddle. He also:
Juicy Campus Is Dead
Over at City Desk, Ryan Reilly reports on the demise of the online college gossipmonger “Juicy Campus.” Apparently, providing a venue for college kids to punk their frenemies isn’t very lucrative. In a presser, Juicy Campus founder Matt Ivester admitted that “even with great traffic and strong user loyalty, a business can’t survive and grow without a steady stream of revenue to support it.”
Juicy Campus was a lot of things—potentially libelous, bitchy, unsuccessful. I’d like to think the story I wrote last year on the site’s expansion to Georgetown brought out Juicy’s lighter side. This was all the way back in Septeber, when Juicy Campus was still colonizing campuses with a bang instead of folding with a whimper. Oh, memories. Relive the gossip in all its glory here, before the site folds tomorrow.
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Guilty Plea in Georgetown Gay Bashing Case
On Oct. 3, 19-year-old Ruddad Abdulgader approached two men at the C&O Canal, shouted homophobic epithets at them, and assaulted one of them in the face with a bottle. He pleaded guilty to “felony assault with bias intent” and “possession of a prohibited weapon” yesterday, reports Lou Chibbaro Jr. for the Washington Blade. Adbulgader and another man were arrested following the incident last month.
