Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Begin: WordPress Article Content There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app Bumble has taken action to ban selfies of users posing…
(iStock) Dating is steeped in uncertainty. Sure, he looks cute in his pictures and is witty with the text messages, but will we have any chemistry in person? Sure, that first date was good, but with his travel schedule and my work schedule, will we find time for a second? We have fun together, but are we compatible…
At Monday night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton took Donald Trump to task for his many sexist comments, like calling women pigs, slobs, and dogs. And one anecdote in particular stood out: Clinton said Trump had called former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado, who is Latina, “Miss Housekeeping” and “Miss Piggy.” “Where did you find this?”…
Photo: Ken Gillespie Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. Dear Polly, I’m writing to you because I feel like I’ve been working SO hard on self-acceptance and loving my rougher edges and thought I was making real progress — but somehow I keep finding myself stuck in the same hole as always. I don’t know what…
Thanks to Affordable Care Act insurance reform, prescribed contraception must be covered by all insurance plans without a co-pay, meaning the majority of Americans now have access to primary forms of birth control—their “plan A” contraception. As nearly everyone who has ever had potentially procreative sex knows, however, the need for back-up is crucial to peace of mind, whether or…
Image: Shutterstock/Techcrunch Expressing love is one of the most difficult and important things you can do as a human being. There is no correct way to tell someone you love them, to truly express how much they mean to you. Messages get lost in translation. Wives and husbands feel taken for granted. Communicating clearly with…
When it comes to the once-expected joy of parenthood, many millennials are shrugging and lackadaisically saying “NOPE.” “NOPE NOPE NOPE.” After all, long gone are the days when sex was reproductive; where the natural progression after marriage is 2.5 thankless spawn and a white picket fence in suburban hell. Today’s copulating post-youths…
PART ONE: ‘This Is What Human Trafficking Looks Like’ With the death of his mother last summer, Sigurds Zitars, a retired accountant, was the only family member left in University Place, Washington. Since 2006 “Sig” had been the clan’s caregiver, after his mother developed dementia and his father and sister both took ill. In January,…
At 5am, after a night of drinking with strangers, and pool, and fireworks in the street, and crappy pizza I was sitting in the living room with two friends. One had a serious girlfriend, and one — like me — had been single for a long time. “Being single is really hard,” I said. My friend with the girlfriend…
Culture is conflict in Andrew Ahn’s debut feature, Spa Night. Protagonist David (Joe Seo), who, like Ahn himself, is the son of parents who emigrated from Korea, awakens sexually in the Korean spas in Los Angeles that he frequents with his family and friends. Meanwhile, his family’s expectation that he’ll settle down with a nice…