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Going Commando: The Only Way To Live
I mean, I had always grown up knowing that men similar to me (such as Jay-Z) always prefer their women in “no panties and jeans, that’s so necessary,” but I…
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Why It’s Important To Flirt
Think of flirting as a brain exercise. You have to work out the muscle that helps people fall in love with you! And the less serious you take it, the…
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How To Be Forever Alone In 8 Easy Steps
Tumblr is the black hole of all things socialization, and there is no such thing as “recreational use.” You will be blessed with all the Dr. Who and Supernatural screenshots…
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Things Straight Men Do That Confuse Gay People
Hey y’all! Hot Or Not is dead. It died. But in its place will be a new special video every week, starting with this little ditty about straight men and…
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How Many People Have You Slept With?
In our culture, sex outside of a monogamous relationship is typically frowned upon. We think it’s wrong, make all kinds of assumptions about the people engaging in it and like…
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What Kind Of Single Person Are You?
This person can explain electricity, the Pythagorean theorem, and why leap year exists, but the one question to which they have no answer is why they’re single. And they want…
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12 Tips For Working In Retail Without Killing Everyone Around You
If you work in a store that uses a playlist of fewer than 100 songs for in-store music, you will probably show up for work one day wearing a trench…
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To Become Whole, You Must First Be Broken
Two days after my mother had cradled a small piece of happiness in her hand, her body performed its most treacherous act and unraveled that knotted ball of chromosomes. Mitosis…
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Being In An Open Marriage Is A Lot Like Being On Fire
It’s like if somebody were to ask, “What about the laundry? Do you do the laundry? Does he ever do the laundry? What if he does the laundry in a…
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5 Truths No One Likes To Hear
While a good relationship should cause both parties to make improvements, you can’t date a fixer-upper expecting a Persian Palace at the end of it. People only change if they…
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17 Types Of People There’s A Special Place In Hell For
1. People who start to say something attention-grabbing but then stop. EXAMPLE: “Oh my God! Did I tell you about what happened with Karen and I the other night?! –…
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5 Reasons Your Boyfriend Is Cheating On You
King David had a throng of consorts as he completed the Lord’s work, and you’re foolish if you believe Mufasa was playing the monogamous role whilst Simba was gallivanting in…
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The Pros And Cons Of Living With Roommates
There is OCD-Riddled Parental Figure/Full-Time Party Pooper, who will basically spend all of his/her time telling you to turn music down, yelling at you to clean up after yourself, asking…
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How To Meet The Love Of Your Life
You can meet the love of your life. You can meet them in a bookstore, in a coffee shop, at a party, at a bar, through friends of friends, on…
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6 Reasons You Should Move To Austin, TX
You can strike up a conversation with essentially anyone. Accidentally making eye contact with a stranger isn’t an awful stare-down that leaves you feeling dried out and steely; they’ll probably…
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5 Ways Atheism Can Be Spiritual
To know evolution is to know the story of life on earth, and to know the scientific story of life is to feel connected to the world as you never…
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6 Things We Shouldn’t Spend Much Money On
Just to give you an idea how awful of an investment the lottery is, here are a few things you have better odds of than winning it: 1. Odds of dying…
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The 8 Best Lines From Titanic Because I Saw It In 3D
A fun thing to do if you’re bored is include Billy Zane’s name in popular songs. “Billy Zane is in my ear and in my eyes” or “Billy Zane is…
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5 Terrifying Things I Will Do If I Like You
I’m like the emotional equivalent of the homeless man leering at breasts in the corner of the bus while swigging from a bottle of whiskey. “Yeah, that’s right, I bet…
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Types Of Women Men Like Better Than Me
It is an extremely ‘fun time’ to be a woman. Catalyzed by the instantaneous access to information and social support provided by the modern internet, plus the fact women’s health…
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8 Things Everyone Must Know How To Do
If you can poke a pointy thing through a soft thing a few times in a row (heh), you already know how to use a needle and thread. Watch an…
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The Top 20 R. Kelly Songs Ever
His eleventh studio album, Write Me Back, is due next month (and I mean that’s fantastic because this homage was happening either way; at least now it can happen under…
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What Your Favorite Mad Men Character Says About You
“It’s me,” we think, “if I lived in 60’s Manhattan and had limitless access to workplace booze and bored housewife panties.” But what does your favorite character actually say about…
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6 Things You Learn At 25
I’m inclined to think it’s a coincidence that in that year, everything I believed, every relationship I held dear, every truth I thought I could rest on, the very filters…
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The 15 Best Teen Sex Comedies
There were no high expectations in danger of being deflated after seeing Jason Biggs put his dong in a pastry. That day, I became a realist.
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5 Unhealthy Thoughts Girls (And Guys!) Have
It’s just a picture. If roughly half of the pictures on your Facebook are attractive and the other half aren’t, no one’s going to decide you are ugly and useless.
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5 Reasons You Should Major In Women’s Studies
You can apply what you’ve learned from Women’s Studies to any situation — it’s not so much a career choice as it is a life choice; you’re adopting a new…
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5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Major In Women’s Studies
You might see a scone at a trendy, locally-owned coffee shop and wonder about whether or not the sugar in the scone was harvested primarily by men or women.
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10 Lies Disney Told Me
In order to bag a Princess/live happily ever after/be a hero, princes have to be: ripped, two weeks away from coming into their inheritance, live in a castle, and have…
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How To Go Vegan Without Wanting To Kill Yourself
Clearly, your parents have been telling you to eat your vegetables your entire life — there is no way a (well-thought out) plant-based diet can be bad for you. But…
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I Have ASMR, Do You?
But let’s be honest — it’s kind of weird. Most ASMR-ers are in the closet about this, because how in the world would you interject it into a conversation?
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Why You Should Start Smoking
People romanticize the past all out of proportion, but the past can still be our lives. Taking up smoking will help teach you this: for smoking is an attempt to…
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Why Lipstick Lesbians Have To Keep Coming Out Of The Closet
I’m where I’m meant to be now, but I hate that I believed I had to present myself differently in order for others to believe that I’m queer. I hate…
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A Thank You To Real Friends
Getting a beer with someone after work hours is something you propose because it seems appropriate, because it’s simply what you do. So what if the conversation’s tedious? So what…
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5 Ways To Reduce Your Self-Loathing
Wouldn’t it be totally annoying to have a conversation with someone who would rather bellyache for hours than devote the same amount of time to addressing these issues? Yeah. That…
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The Thinking Woman’s Guide To Threesomes
Threesomes are so magical based on the fact that they’re simultaneously in a completely different league than one-on-one sex (all those extra body parts are a real game-changer), and they’re…
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I Want To Know You
People with kind hearts make me feel dirty. Like I need to give my personality a bath or something. Rub it clean of my neuroses and judgments. But that’s a…
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Some Notes On Testing Positive
I mean, I’m pretty much the picture of sexual health unless, I dunno, maybe I get drunk or kind of high and she has good eye makeup and it’s a…
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50 Special Skills And Talents Omitted From My Resumé
1. Hardly sounds like he’s from Boston at all. 2. Willing to be big spoon or little spoon. 3. Has a terrific family recipe for brownies.
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Why Being In Your 20s Is Awesome
I want to remember the fear, I want to remember the promise, I want to remember the nights I wanted to curl up in a ball, I want to remember…
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Things You Learn After Your First Heartbreak
You learn that the person who once protected you from all harm could one day become the harm. They could become the thing they spent so much time shielding you…
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Why Name-Calling Is Despicable
Calling someone a name is a lazy person’s resource. It takes away all of their collected knowledge, their education and their manners, putting them in the same class as barbarian…
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What To Do When An Indian Answers Your Tech Support Call
It’s weird — even foreign people who work their asses off 12-14 hours a day to help support their families (and extended families) expect some modicum of respect and decency…
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8 Things That Will Ruin Your Day
There are few things worse than realizing, the second it’s too late to go back and change, that your outfit looks like something your grandmother would have dressed you in…
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How To Have The Best Weekend Of Your Young Adult Life
Sleep over at your friend’s house. Normally you hate sleeping in someone else’s bed but it feels right this time. You wake up next to your best friend feeling so…
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The 8 Gayest Songs To Ever Exist
When I first heard this song, I thought to myself “This is so dumb. WTF?” Then I began to involuntarily move my body back and forth and before I knew…
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Things You Have To Stop Doing Once You Get Into A Relationship
You can’t fart when you’re dating someone. Sometimes the relationship will actually just feel like one long held in fart since that’s all you’ll ever be doing. We spend 95%…
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How Do People Afford To Be Hipsters?
I mean, let’s be honest, out of a hundred hipsters that refer to themselves as “photographers” and have Tumblrs full of pictures of homeless peoples’ shoes, a maximum of three…
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MTV Shows That Didn't Suck
Before Teen Mom, before My Super Sweet 16, there was Engaged and Underage: the perfect program to watch with your parents when you needed to convince them that cutting school…
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Agatha Christie's Top 10 Racist Moments
Recently, I have worked my way back through my (embarrassingly complete) Christie collection, and Ohmygod guess what? Agatha Christie was a huge racist!