The haircut sometimes known as The Hitler Youth or The Michael Pitt/Jimmy Darmody/Boardwalk Empire or The Undercut has officially hit the mainstream: Biggest Loser fitness guru Bob Harper was spotted sporting very short sides and a long, floppy top on Rachael Ray Wednesday.
A secret is something hidden on purpose — but if the "secret" is a fairly universal behavior practiced by lots of people that the average person would find utterly unsurprising ("Cats like string") then, sorry buddy, but that is not a secret to anyone but you. Which kind of makes it not a secret at all, but like a real…
What do women really want? How do men really feel? If you've ever found yourself reading an article that attempts to "decipher" the "code" of male or female behavior, congratulations, you are grasping at straws (or hate-reading). I, too, have read approximately 14,000 bajillion of these pieces over the course of my life,…
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Based on all the dumb shit I've been told about how men allegedly are and women allegedly are, I've concluded the following: Being masculine is apparently just like being a proud lion, it is an intrinsically superior gift of strength and wisdom bestowed on men by the universe that women must stroke and honor (or else). …
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Two hours ago, I asked myself, "Shouldn't I be using Google Incognito?" I had been doing research for this article, and though I'm on my own computer, in my own home, I could imagine some future situation in which a search history of "sexy men's jockstraps japan" might land me in awkward waters.
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I'm 34. I'm fat. I'm not married. I'm childless. And for those of you whose first instinct was to go "Awww" — are you kidding me? Save your deep concern for the homeless and the terminally ill, will you? Geez.
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Men, can they have it all? YES. All of the weight loss.
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Ah, marriage: the ceremonial letting out of ye old gut once you've locked it down something permanent. According to the popular lore, studies and jokes, it is us gals who do the biggest pile-on post-nuptials, before kids, after kids, just thinking about having kids, and sometimes literally as we stride out the aisle,…
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What do women really think of the oft-mocked 'fedora personality'? (We hate it.) No, really, what do they think? (Really, we hate it.) That's what one man wanted to know when he took to the subreddit Ask Women to find out just how we gals feel about the fancy fedora and the personality that sometimes come with it. The…
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The bra market for cross-dressing men (as opposed to men who want to achieve the Kellan Lutz effect with some not-at-all-obvious, custom-fitted chest cushions) is growing, thanks in part to the efforts of a Japanese online retailer.
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Online dating can be fucking rough, but if you're having a tough time, remember: It's not you, it's your profile. New data promises to help you do the digital version of digging a hole and covering it with leaves so you can TRAP A MAN.
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What do they say about men who drive snazzy cars? That they're compensating for something? Well after analyzing car sale data that reveals that the majority of buyers of cars like Ferraris, Aston Martins and Maseratis are men, the Wall Street Journal is certainly convinced that that's the case.
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"The goal of men and the world should be to make all mothers happy. Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect. If the goal is to make all mothers happy, we won't go too far wrong." Orlando Bloom, to Elle.
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A post on Slate today claims that women with red hair are sexualized and men with red hair are reviled. We're here to say LONG LIVE RED-HEADED MEN.
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Men who are shorter than 5'9 are in for a rough go of it if they're looking to date online. A recent study conducted by New York dating site Are You Interested? found that only 1.2% of the female site users living in Manhattan or the Bronx would reach out to male members who were shorter than them. Odds were slightly…
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Bye bye, vocal fry. All the cool kids in 2013 are ending their sentences with invisible question marks.
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It's pretty common to hear particular technologies presented as being either for dudes (i.e., srs bsns gadgets) or for girls (think messaging apps and anything related to shopping). It's also common to see technologies adopted by female consumers as either fluffy or some quasi-miraculous sign of alien life—see every…
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In September, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology changed their definition of what it means to be a board certified gynecologist: you can only treat women. "What?" you might be saying to yourself. "Hasn't that always been the case?" Nope, and this new limitation isn't a good thing.
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The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has laid down a hard line: no boys allowed.
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For the longest time, I didn't get the whole "moist" word aversion thing, mostly because my brain autocompletes to "moist chocolate cake." Moist chocolate cake is universally pleasing.
