Aerie, American Eagle’s lingerie and underwear brand, has beautifully reminded us what matters most in business: the customer. Customers, specifically people and women who wear bras and panties, come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. But women’s bodies are more than numbers or physical characteristics that fit into boxes. Some […]
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World Health Organization Lists Gaming Addiction As New Mental Health Disorder
By Tessa Adams of Family Footnote The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it will add Gaming Addiction to the 2018 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Newsweek reports that this is the first addition to the manual since the 1990s. A person would have to show symptoms for a year in […]
Handmaid’s Tale Wine Launched, Then Cancelled After Backlash
Who knew rape-based wine could be a bad idea? Apparently everyone except Lot18, the company that conceptualized The Handmaid’s Tale-inspired beverage and then subsequently cancelled it after potential consumers voiced their dissatisfaction with an aperitif that capitalizes on dystopian misogyny and sexual assault. Huh. Never would have seen that coming. *rolls […]
Margarita-Drinking, Hot-Tub-Soaking Bear Is Living Your #SummerGoals
So far this summer I have been eaten alive by giant blood-sucking mosquitoes, gone camping in gale force winds and torrential downpours, handed out a gazillion snacks, and attempted to unsuccessfully ignore the calls of “Mommmm, I’m bored!” about eleventy thousand times (and counting). Clearly I’m doing summer wrong, and […]
15 Tweets That Hilariously Troll Tomorrow’s “Civil War”
Load up your muskets! Ready your bayonets! And tell Aunt Clara to put a pot of stew on the fire so we can fill our bellies tonight. Because guess what, folks? There’s apparently a civil war happening tomorrow, according to everyone’s favorite liberal-hater Alex Jones, who proclaimed this fact as […]
Mourners Fulfill Teacher’s Dying Wish to Bring Backpacks Full of Supplies to Funeral
Tammy Layne Waddell, 58, had one wish before she died of cancer at the young age of 58: that mourners bring backpacks full of supplies to her funeral instead of flowers. Waddell — who, according to her obituary, taught elementary school in Forsyth County, Georgia and was the 2003 Forsyth County […]
Sailor’s Mouth Yoga Is Here And I May Finally Use My Yoga Pants For Actual Yoga
There have been some interesting yoga trends recently, including: Tantrum Yoga (where you get to channel your inner angst-ridden toddler); Goat Yoga (which, yes, involves actual goats); and Noga (as in doing yoga, naked). Yeah. No. No. Aaannnd no. But finally there’s a yoga out there that makes me seriously consider […]
Hallelujah! There’s a Promising New Blood Test for Autism
Hallelulyer! A new test that can accurately detect autism has been developed and may be available soon.