A Nice Catalogue of Shockingly Good Things
What is this strange new feeling? It’s like indigestion, but the opposite—everything inside of me seems to be running smoothly, for once. Are things... good? What is good?
Winona Ryder Won't Apologize for Her Vulnerability
Winona Ryder recently sat down with New York’s Heather Havrilesky for the magazine’s August 8, 2016 cover feature. Reflecting on her career’s trajectory and her recent starring role in Stranger Things, the actress also commented on the ways the media has pathologized her.
Professor Condemns Phrase 'I Feel Like' As Symptom Of 'Tyranny Of Feelings'
This weekend we crossed the threshold into a new month, and the New York Times, paper of record, has marked the occasion with a new condemnation of millennial culture. On April 30, 2016 their Opinion section ran a piece by Molly Worthen entitled “Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like.’”
The Thing I'll Miss Most About American Idol Is Jennifer Lopez's Facial Expressions
I am both an early and late adopter of American Idol. I watched it early on with the kids I babysat, embarrassing them as I imitated the contestants in front of their large floor-to-ceiling windows, in full few of their neighbors. Somehow this season, I happened upon it again, tuning in one quiet night home alone…
Obama Will Not Speak at Malia’s Graduation Because He Is ‘Going to Cry’
During a lunch in Detroit on Wednesday, President Obama told guests he refused a request to speak at his daughter Malia’s high school graduation because he’ll be too busy crying. “Malia’s school asked if I wanted to speak at commencement and I said no,” the president explained. “I’m going to be wearing dark glasses…
New Study Shows: No One Likes a Person Who's Too Hard to Read
This is terrible news for robots, and also maybe for you. If you’ve ever been told you’re too hard to read—and, likely, had interpersonal trouble because of it, particularly in the first-impressions arena—new research points to the direct effect this has on your likability. Turns out that suppressing how you think and…
Japanese Hotel's New 'Crying Rooms' Are Pretty Genius, to Be Honest
Have you ever just wanted to take a day to get away from it all and weep bitter tears? If you’re traveling to Japan anytime soon, you can do just that in a specialized crying room designed to combat stress while allowing you to sob in elegance and comfort.
Your Most Over-the-Top Emotional Meltdown
Sometimes shit in life becomes too much and something—be it small or large—pushes you over the emotional edge. Often these bouts of OH GOD MY FUCKING LIFE FUCK YOU FUCK ME FUCK EVERYTHING are accompanied by shouting, crying and general displays of melodrama that you're sure to feel dumb and embarrassed about later. So…
Pregnant Woman Has Emotional Breakdown Over Improperly Bagged Veggies
Pregnancy: It does things to you. And sometimes those things are the literal inability to handle someone cutting and bagging veggies. Such is the case of a woman who's nine months pregnant and is just feeling so many emotions right now. All the emotions, every one of them. Can you tell?
Science Can Now Measure Goosebumps. Next Up, Feelings!
Scientists have developed a very small, very thin sensor that measures goosebumps. Why, you ask, would anyone want to measure goosebumps? These researchers think it could offer a way to read people's emotions.
Why Humiliation Is the Most Intense Human Emotion
Like anyone, I suppose, I take great pains to avoid humiliation. But as a fat person, humiliation is built into my everyday existence—just living in my body is coded as humiliating by the culture at large—so when I was younger, I always went out of my way to be more in control of my image than I needed to be. More…
Old People Aren't Mad All the Time--They're Just Wrinkled
I never really thought about it before, but I guess "sad" and "angry" are emotions stereotypically applied to the elderly. Get off my lawn and all that. Dropping it into the ocean at the end. No, you can't have equal rights because the '50s. Et al. But a new study suggests that older people don't actually exhibit…
Irritable Male Syndrome: Wherein Dudes Feel All the Feelings
Gosh, women and their messy emotions and crazy behavior while PMSing. What a womanly thing. But guess what?! Guys PMS, too. Joke's on you, dudes, because you can also feel crazy emotions and it sucks and can we please just hug and eat ice cream together?
Men Still Terrible at Detecting Subtle Emotional Cues From Women
NEW STUDY SAYS: Men aren't so great at guessing your emotions, but they can read dudes like they were separated at birth with the exact same ball sack. Is it because you're a master bluffer with dead eyes, or because they are biologically hard-wired to put bros before hos? It's both! It's neither! What it is is dumb.
Is the Sensitivity Gene a Real Thing?
Some exciting new research has recently hit the scene suggesting that some human beings might be in possession of a special gene that makes them more sensitive than others. No, this does not mean that Jennifer Aniston was right when she said that Brad Pitt was missing a "sensitivity chip." It has nothing to do with…
The World According to How Emotional Everyone Is
Ugh, El Salvador. Always on their period, right!?!? I can't tell you the number of times El Salvador has woken me up in the middle of the night because they just watched an ASPCA commercial and need to come over and eat some Ben & Jerry's. But then Russia—have you ever seen that dude upset? It's like, bro, sometimes…
Man Develops Delightful Giggling Disorder After Surgery
Huug Bosse had hip surgery three years ago and hasn't been the same since. Specifically, he cannot stop laughing. He's annoying everyone around him, but he doesn't care — everything is amusing to him. Of his wife, who seems highly irritated by his new personality, he says laughingly, "She actually doesn't love me,…
For Lasting Romance, Find Out Why She's Sad
It's no shock that showing empathy for your partner leads to a better relationship. What's a little more interesting, though, is that men and women seem to value different kinds of empathy: in a new study, women cared more about their partner understanding their negative emotions, whereas guys were more concerned with…
Freaking Out Can Make Your Kids Freak Out, Too
A new study shows that parents who overreact to their kids' mistakes and misbehavior might be teaching those kids to overreact too. And more disturbingly, there may be a genetic component to flying off the handle.
Santorum Meant to Say It's Ladies' Weakness, Not Emotions, That Keeps Them Out of Combat
Last week, Rick Santorum said he didn't think women should be allowed in combat because the "types of emotions that are involved." Well, he's since clarified his position, and it turns out he wasn't referring to women's out of control emotions but men's. You see, he's worried that male soldiers would get themselves in…
