Dancing like your dad: You can dread it, you can deny it, but you can’t dodge it. Even the silkiest-hipped individual will, at some point, turn into something resembling a lobster being tasered whenever he attempts to move rhythmically. To illustrate this phenomenon, here is Prince William,...
Many of us have family members we love by default: They’re your blood, sure, but you don’t really get along. Spending time together is an obligation, not a choice — were they not related, you would never choose to spend time together. So what happens when they die? How...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
There are two kinds of people in this world: People who love an ice-cold beer in a piping hot shower, and people who’ve never tried it. For anyone who doesn’t know what a shower beer is or couldn’t guess, the enthusiasts at ShowerBeer.org have laid out the...
It’s easy to think of filing for divorce as some sort of ending, but while it may be the official end of a relationship, it’s really just the beginning of a long — and for many people, extremely annoying! — process. You often hear about people losing their house or their...
You might expect that some men would feel emasculated after being proposed to by their girlfriends, since men are historically—and yes, currently—the ones who usually do the proposing. According to CBS, only five percent of people who are currently married say that the woman was the one...
Two decades ago, I was a 15-year-old meathead awash in a sea of meathead jargon. I tipped the scales at 240 pounds of puffy, puberty-powered muscle — big and “swole,” but not quite “buff” and certainly not “ripped” or “cut.” I referred to the pizza slices I downed by...
What’s the hardest thing about being a parent? Well, there’s the leveling up as a human to care for someone more than ourselves. The ungodly amount of snack preparation. The profound sleeplessness. And the insane vulnerability of caring for another person knowing you could screw it all up....
In 1934, Wisconsin hosiery company executive and designer Arthur Kneibler received a postcard that depicted a Frenchman wearing a bikini-style bathing suit. The image inspired Kneibler to design the first-ever pair of tighty-whities: Snug, legless underwear featuring an overlapping Y-front fly. This new design was welcomed by...
In addition to the well-established and widely accepted ground rules on farting at the urinal, there lies another golden rule: No mouth stuff. Ever. That means spitting, burping, and above all else, talking. Still, there remain some men who, for reasons we’ll get into, treat the bathroom...
Browse any studies about anxiety and gender and you’ll come away with one consistent takeaway: Women are seriously anxious. They have a clear monopoly on anxiety disorders at nearly twice the rate of men, according to a review of 48 previous studies on the issue. A new...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....