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This High School Couple Took Their Prom Photos In Front Of A Tornado

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Prom night with a twist.

But this potentially life-threatening storm didn't stop two high school sweethearts from snapping a couple of pictures on Saturday before heading off to prom.

Charlie Bator, 18, and Ali Marintzer, 15, told ABC News they were taking prom photos at Marintzer's home on Saturday when a siren went off. When the alarm ended, the couple went outside and saw the twister in the distance.

Charlie Bator, 18, and Ali Marintzer, 15, told ABC News they were taking prom photos at Marintzer's home on Saturday when a siren went off. When the alarm ended, the couple went outside and saw the twister in the distance.

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Marintzer's mom, Heidi Marintzer, bravely agreed to step outside with the dapper couple to take this epic prom photo.

Marintzer's mom, Heidi Marintzer, bravely agreed to step outside with the dapper couple to take this epic prom photo.

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9 Bodies I’ve Had

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I’m getting changed for a swimming lesson, surrounded by other boys in my year. We wrap towels around our waists and pull on our trunks in private. Nobody wants to be naked. When we walk out to the pool, the chubby kids get made fun of. I shouldn't be worried. I’m thin, tall, my chest and stomach flat. My shoulders are broad. I have no belly. And yet standing in front of the boys and girls in my class, I consciously pull my stomach muscles taut, determined that no one will ever make fun of me for being fat. I’m 9 years old and my body is in competition.

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It’s a school holiday and a local radio station is hosting a pool party at the leisure centre in my town. The party has music and games and prizes. I volunteer for the Mr Baywatch competition and line up with other boys along the edge of the pool. We strike our best poses. The host goes down the line and asks the kids in the pool to shout for who they think is best. Kids who lose get pushed in. I get down to the last two. The other kid is a couple of years older. His body is better, I think. The kids in the pool vote. I win. I get a T-shirt. He gets pushed in. I’m 11 years old and my body is being judged.

3.

I’m measuring myself against the side of a cabinet in the kitchen. I was always one of the tallest in my class and now everyone is catching up. I make a pencil mark, happy to see I’ve grown a little. But my mum tells me the pencil was at an angle. Here, she says. I’ll do it. Her mark is in the same place as the one from last week. I tell her she did it wrong. I look up the cabinet and see my twin brother’s pencil mark. He’s now 2 inches taller than me. I need to grow. I have to grow. I’m 14 and my body is letting me down.

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I get my first barbell set for Christmas and start lifting at home. A little while later I join my first gym. Everyone there is older, in better shape. I want to be bigger, fitter. I'm long past worrying about height. I'm taller now. And still growing. This is different. Unlike the acne that plagues my face or the various anxieties of adolescence, this is something I can control. This is something I can change. I’m 16 and my body is an obsession.

5.

I’m at a local bar with friends. I’m not drinking. My diet is strict. I spend two hours a day in the gym, five days a week. I wear tight T-shirts. I want everyone to notice me. My friends get drunker and ask me for training tips. Strangers make comments: Look at the size of this cunt. It’s always men who notice, who want talk to me about my body. When you’re in shape you learn that straight men are infinitely more interested in you than women ever will be. I've built a wall that keeps people out. I've made myself solid. I've made myself boring. I’m 21 and my body is the most interesting thing about me.

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I’m at a casting call for some sportswear company. Your face is fine but your body is all wrong, they say. Much too big. Not what we’re looking for at all. A week later I get a job because I’m tall and muscular. Two weeks after that I book a commercial because I can do the accent they need. They ask me to stop lifting weights for a month beforehand. You’ll make the girl we’ve cast look like a doll, they say. I do a job where they need only my legs. I do a job where they only use my shoulders. Someone pays me to waiter a party topless. I almost book a job as a lighting double for Hugh Jackman. Your body is fine but your face is wrong, they say. And you’re too tall. I’m 24 and my body is a commodity.

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Walking home I see a guy acting strange, following a young woman. I catch up with her and let her know. She says she noticed him too. I ask if I can walk with her and she agrees. To put her at ease, I tell her about my partner, about how I live in the area too. After a couple of blocks she says her house is close and thanks me. I realise she doesn’t want me to see where she lives. I wish her well and turn back. What did you expect, my partner says when I tell her. She was probably terrified. There were two strange men following her home. I’m 6’3". Built. Strong. I never considered I might be intimidating. I’m 28 and my body is a weapon.

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I’m on holiday with my partner. She’s at the beach. I stay at our rental home. I have some writing to do, I say. I used to love the beach. I used to love the water. I used to love my body. A long-term depressive episode has undone much of my work, all of my pride. My T-shirts are a little looser. I don't want everybody to look now. I joke about it. The muscles are still there, I say, under this winter coat. It isn't funny. I'm not in control any more. I don’t swim the whole holiday. I stay inside and I read. I’m 30 and my body is a stranger.

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At a family wedding the photographer tells me I look like a fat Leonardo DiCaprio. My inner 9-year-old cringes. I shouldn't care. I'm working on it. This isn’t a fight. There aren’t winners and losers. I know I’m not grotesque, but nobody is paying me to take my clothes off, either. Not that I’d want them to. I stopped going for modelling jobs because being valued for your looks alone is miserable. I stopped because I wouldn’t let other people treat me like that. And yet it’s how I treat myself. I still find it hard to believe when partners tell me they like my body. You should have seen me before, I say. I need to let go. I’m working on it. I’ll always be working on it. I’m 33 and my body is a work in progress. I’m 33 and my body no longer defines me. I’m 33 and my body is enough.


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Body Positivity Week is a week of content devoted to exploring and celebrating our complicated relationships with our bodies. Read more here.

Take A Look At The Adorable New "Pokémon Sun" And "Moon" Starters

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Let’s just say, the trailer was LITten (sorry).

This morning, The Official Pokémon Channel dropped a trailer for the upcoming games, Pokémon Sun and Moon.

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This Dog Is So Obsessed With Bananas He Carries Them Around The House

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Look how happy he is!

Meet Vixon. Vixon is a dog who loves bananas.

Meet Vixon. Vixon is a dog who loves bananas.

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Vixen's owner is Kayla, a 15-year-old student from California. The pup was a Christmas present.

Vixen's owner is Kayla, a 15-year-old student from California.
The pup was a Christmas present.

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"Vixen's favorite snack is bananas," she told BuzzFeed. "He comes walking into the living room like this."

"Vixen's favorite snack is bananas," she told BuzzFeed. "He comes walking into the living room like this."

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Kayla says she has no idea why his obsession with bananas started.

Kayla says she has no idea why his obsession with bananas started.

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This Blogger Found That Kylie's $29 Lip Kit Formula Is Identical To A $6 Dupe

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Proof that labels don’t matter.

Stephanie Nicole, a beauty blogger, just posted a video to her channel revealing that the Kylie Lip Kit and Colourpop Cosmetics Ultra Matte Liquid Lipsticks have almost identical formulas.

You can see every video on her channel here.

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Recently, the formula for the Kylie Lip Kit changed. Nicole decided to compare the two products to see if the second formula stood up to the original.

Recently, the formula for the Kylie Lip Kit changed. Nicole decided to compare the two products to see if the second formula stood up to the original.

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While she found the quality of Kylie's new formula to be just slightly lower, the color of the new formulation — which is listed as the same product on Kylie's website — is also different.

While she found the quality of Kylie's new formula to be just slightly lower, the color of the new formulation — which is listed as the same product on Kylie's website — is also different.

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On a hunch, Nicole investigated to compare the ingredients of the Kylie Lip Kit to Colourpop's Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick, which is frequently listed as a dupe for Kylie's product. Nicole found that the ingredients are just about identical.

On a hunch, Nicole investigated to compare the ingredients of the Kylie Lip Kit to Colourpop's Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick, which is frequently listed as a dupe for Kylie's product. Nicole found that the ingredients are just about identical.

Here's the key for these colors:
- Yellow is the same ingredient, same order in the formula.
- Blue is the same ingredient, different order in the formula.
- Purple is the same pigment, but different order in the formula.

It's important to know that there is no requirement for brands to list pigments in any particular order. You can read more about Stephanie Nicole's ingredient breakdown here.

The Colourpop formula does have a few extra ingredients, but the formulations remain almost identical.

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People Are Cracking Up After This Mom's Attempt To Pack Her Teen A Lunch Went Terribly Wrong

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Poor Mom.

This is Mckenzie Strange, a 17-year-old high school junior from Georgia.

This is Mckenzie Strange, a 17-year-old high school junior from Georgia.

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Mckenzie told BuzzFeed News that even though she's getting older, her awesome mom still packs her a lunch for school.

"I'm just blessed to have a great mom that does lots for me," she said.

But this week, her mom's attempt to do something nice for her daughter went awry. Mckenzie said she opened her lunch to realize her mom had packed her a Four Loko instead of a drink.

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21 Of The Most Offensive Things That Have Ever Been Done To Pizza

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I have seen some frightening things today.

This sad pizza which had so much potential.

This sad pizza which had so much potential.

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And this school lunch "pizza" slice which I'm not sure is even real food?

And this school lunch "pizza" slice which I'm not sure is even real food?

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This "home made" sad lump of unmelted cheese.

This "home made" sad lump of unmelted cheese.

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This reminder to never mix sweet and savoury.

This reminder to never mix sweet and savoury.

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21 Reasons Everyone Should Fall In Love With A Bitchy Person

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They will always hate who you hate, no questions asked.

Bitchy people can't help but judge.

Bitchy people can't help but judge.

Our mind is not pure, we can't help it.

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So when a bitchy person chooses you as their number one, you know you are probably 100% perfect.

So when a bitchy person chooses you as their number one, you know you are probably 100% perfect.

It's true.

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Bitching is the most fun, especially when you're doing it with a particularly talented bitcher.

Bitching is the most fun, especially when you're doing it with a particularly talented bitcher.

Bitchy people are good at metaphors.

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Being a bitch's S.O. also makes you their number one go to bitching buddy, which is a constant source of entertainment.

Being a bitch's S.O. also makes you their number one go to bitching buddy, which is a constant source of entertainment.

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22 Color Changing Products That Will Make You Believe In Magic

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Even Hogwarts students would be like “dayuuuuum!”

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This sweet pixelated heart mug that changes your black heart to a red one once you've poured your coffee.

This sweet pixelated heart mug that changes your black heart to a red one once you've poured your coffee.

An accurate depiction of most of our lives. Get it here for $11.99.

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We've All Been Mishearing One Lyric In J. Lo And Ja Rule's "I'm Real" For Years

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Everything is a lie.

Hi everyone, let's travel back in time to the year 2001.

Hi everyone, let's travel back in time to the year 2001.

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It was a simpler time. A time when our most pressing worry was getting our homework done so we could watch 106 & Park on BET.

It was a simpler time. A time when our most pressing worry was getting our homework done so we could watch 106 & Park on BET.

::cries in nostalgia::

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You know who else was popular during this important time in pop culture history? Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule!

You know who else was popular during this important time in pop culture history? Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule!

Mind you, J. Lo is still very popular today, so don't come for me, stans.

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The "I'm Real" remix was, and still is, the shit — it's such a great song.

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These Guys Took Their Clothes Off To Talk About Body Positivity

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“If I can’t find someone that looks like me in the media, why not just do it myself?”

Body Positivity Week is a week of content devoted to exploring and celebrating our complicated relationships with our bodies. Over the course of the week, BuzzFeed will cover diverse topics such as body image and body dysmorphia; eating disorders; fitness, health, and illness; and offer tips on how to improve our relationships with our bodies. To stay aligned with this purpose, the people in the following images have been photographed in natural light and they have not undergone any beauty retouching.

"I remember when I was kid I really wanted to be an actor, like most kids probably, but unlike most kids I knew that I wouldn't be able to make a career of it as early as 9-10 years old."

"I remember when I was kid I really wanted to be an actor, like most kids probably, but unlike most kids I knew that I wouldn't be able to make a career of it as early as 9-10 years old."

"My amputation is congenital, and the only time I see my body type in the media is when it's around some sort of tragedy. It would be nice to see a success story in the media, or maybe just an amputee being not actually THE story.

Since I've become an avid trainer and gotten involved in following and learning from other adaptive athletes, I've loved the challenge of working out my arms. The progress there is the result of a lot of hard work and creative training." — Taylor

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Here's What's Trending On Amazon Right Now

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You didn’t know it until now, but you need this wind-inflated lounger.

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We Asked People To Illustrate What Their Gender Dysphoria Feels Like

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“Looking in the mirror, on the days I’m brave enough to do it, can shatter my exquisitely constructed sense of myself.”

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The emotional and physical discomfort associated with gender dysphoria can be nearly impossible to describe to someone who has never experienced it. This particular type of dysphoria is often defined as a condition where an individual experiences discomfort or distress because their gender identity doesn't match the gender they were assigned at birth. But what does gender dysphoria really feel like? What does it look like?

We asked people to illustrate their dysphoria in whatever form they preferred. Here are some of the art submissions we received:

"For me, my assigned gender has always been a box I was put into without my permission."

"For me, my assigned gender has always been a box I was put into without my permission."

"I'm not particularly good at drawing, so I included an example of some of the needlework I do. I find it much easier to get across what I want using threads.

"For me, my assigned gender has always been a box I was put into without my permission. It's restricting, and suffocating, and for most of my life it completely obscured who I was, like a cloud of pink that hides my inner colors from the world. It often feels like I'll never really be able to break out of the box, so instead I do my best to change its colors and make the box a place I can survive in.

"Some days are better than others, and I'm getting better and better at pushing the pink back, but it's always trying to reclaim lost ground. It's still all some people will ever be able to see when they look at me."

—Cael

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"There are a lot of things my body does really well — it's just that it had the wrong set of building blocks when it was developing its look."

"There are a lot of things my body does really well — it's just that it had the wrong set of building blocks when it was developing its look."

"'Being trapped in the wrong body' was never a phrase that really stuck with me because I think that sets my body in the wrong light. There are a lot of things my body does really well — it's just that it had the wrong set of building blocks when it was developing its look.

"I sympathize with my body because not only me, but everyone around me, keeps drilling on it because of a few little mistakes it has made — even if it tries really hard to correct those mistakes. Let's just all give my body a break. Don't act like every single one of you doesn't have something about your body you don't like. Mine just happens to be a little more contradictory to what I am."

—Felix

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Julian Assange Made A Twitter For A Kitten Because He Is Bored And It Is Cute


What "Girls" And "Broad City" Teach Us About Female Friendship

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When Broad City premiered in 2014, the comparisons between the Comedy Central show and HBO’s Girls were immediate and inevitable. Here were two half-hour comedies about white twentysomething women living in New York, enduring the drudgery and emotional turbulence that’s an attendant feature of those years.

Both shows enjoyed media attention disproportionate to their ratings. (Girls averaged only half a million viewers this season, while Broad City did a bit better with 600,000. Compared with the Game of Thrones season premiere's 8 million viewers, that’s chump change.) But the discrepancy between TV ratings and critical scrutiny is inevitable with two TV shows that reflect the very specific travails of low-paid, creatively inclined New Yorkers, aka the kind of people who churn out copy in the Think Piece Age. The problem with media hype, however, is that it tends to flatten nuance while inevitably attracting backlash. In the case of Girls, first the show was sacrosanct ("Girls Is a Brilliant Gem For HBO"), then it was racially problematic ("We Need to Talk About the White Girls on ‘Girls’"), then it was overrated ("‘Overrated: Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’"), and now it has been mostly ignored (this season’s ratings were among its lowest). Which is fine. Television audiences continue to become more niche. But it’s a little unfortunate because Girls and Broad City have just completed two excellent seasons — seasons that paint compelling portraits of deep, binding friendships between women.

For the first time in American history, there are more single women living in this country than married ones. And as Rebecca Traister declared in a recent op-ed in support of her new book, All the Single Ladies (which has just been optioned for TV), this demographic shift brings to light the meaningful platonic relationships women have with each other that can sometimes outlast romantic ones. The rabid popularity of the Elena Ferrante novels, the proliferation of #squads and #covens, and the fawning over of such pop-culture besties as Amber Rose and Blac Chyna are indicative of this tidal change. Even if the cynic can see the dry-eyed calculations behind Instagram posts and hashtags, it is hard to deny the symbolic power of witnessing female camaraderie. (Especially in contrast to female bitchiness, a persistent trope throughout film and television.)

Shows such as Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, and Living Single have served as the guiding light in exploring the interactions between a group of women. Friendship was the central conceit of these comedies, but there was always an undercurrent of low-grade antagonism between certain characters (Dorothy’s pointed jabs at Blanche, Toni and Maya’s ruthless back-and-forth, Regine’s literal wig-snatching) that provided comedic fodder — these were traditional half-hour sitcoms, after all. Only Sex and the City broke out of that mold (and even then, not always). You could actually believe that Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte were friends, and they were there for each other during particularly arduous moments: breakups, divorce, childbirth, cancer. But these women were older, established in their careers, single, and actively searching for romantic partners.

What’s significant about Broad City and Girls is the way they center friendship among the twentysomething set (now the largest living generation in the country), when so much else during that age is transient: jobs, identities, apartments, paramours. As the hype over these shows has ebbed, their most recent seasons have doubled down on this premise. They make a case for the primacy of friendship above all else, even when — especially when — it’s under threat.

The titular women in Girls aren’t a particularly likable bunch. This is a problem in a society where we still expect our female TV characters to be aspirational. Self-obsessed Hannah, aggressively passive-aggressive Marnie, self-destructive Jessa, and naive Shoshanna wear their flaws openly. They are selfish and prone to making impulsive, often terrible decisions, and the most recent season of Girls does nothing to change that narrative. But what this season does convey, like other seasons haven’t quite, is how often friendships are formed out of habit, and the loyalty that’s created in spite of that. While these women may not particularly like each other, they are still committed to one another.

How well do you know your friends?

The relationship between Hannah (Lena Dunham) and Jessa (Jemima Kirke), in particular, is one that has been compelling in its incongruity. Hannah is a self-indulgent, aimless (though occasionally witty) aspiring writer, and Jessa is a golden-haired mid-Atlantic-accented flaneur with a drug problem. But they connect. They are best friends. Their relationship has always had an element of give-and-take, with Jessa mostly taking (think of Jessa abandoning Hannah at the train station after a frustrating conversation with her father in Season 2). When the writers introduce a threat to their kinship in the form of Jessa’s burgeoning romantic relationship with Hannah’s ex-boyfriend Adam (sparked by an impulsive, though predictable kiss in this season’s splendid season opener), it tests the bonds of their relationship in a deep way.

The moment Hannah realizes that Jessa and Adam are together is one of the show’s finest, cinematically. In a conceit that is very Brooklyn™, Adam is performing in an interactive play about Kitty Genovese, the woman who was notoriously murdered outside her apartment building while neighbors allegedly looked on in 1964. Two buildings adjoined by a courtyard serve as the stage so the audience can walk from room to room and watch different neighbors perform concurrent vignettes. The setting makes for some droll comedy. (“This is so unrealistic,” Marnie hisses at one point.) But the bystander conceit works well here: How well do you know your neighbors? How well do you know your friends?

During the climax of the play, Genovese’s murder, a red spotlight shines on two statues in the courtyard: one of the killer, the other of Kitty Genovese crouched in fear. Automated screams punctuate the air. As Hannah looks out the window to see what’s happening below, Jessa smokes her cigarette on the fire escape and smiles pointedly at someone. The camera pans towards the object of her affection, Adam, sitting by the windowsill the next building over, also smoking a cigarette. Brenda Lee’s luscious “Someday You’ll Want Me to Want You” gets louder, diegetic, as the camera slowly zooms in on Hannah. We register the shock on her face as she realizes that her best friend and her ex-boyfriend are sleeping together. Is the metaphor too apt? Perhaps. But sometimes a betrayal of that sort can feel like a murder, especially in your twenties, when every emotion is heightened to the nth degree.

While the other women are learning to find autonomy, Hannah is still dependent on her friends. When she breaks up with her boyfriend in typical Hannah fashion — at a truck stop, just as they’re about to embark on a summer road trip — she’s stranded and reaches out to Marnie and Jessa, her two best friends, to get her out of a bind. But when she calls Jessa, who confirms Hannah’s suspicions about her relationship with Adam, Hannah hangs up. It’s too much to bear.

"You know people hate me. I’m a hateable kind of person."

Hannah’s rebuff is at the forefront of Jessa’s mind in the season finale. Jessa cannot stop obsessing over Hannah’s reaction to her relationship with Adam. When Adam tells Jessa that he can’t stand it anymore, she delivers this standout monologue:

“Hannah is my dearest friend. She will always come first. We may not be talking right now and I hope to god that that changes. So you saying that she’s not in our lives anymore, doesn’t work for me. You know people hate me. I’m a hateable kind of person. I don’t know why, I can’t help it. Maybe it’s because I have a big ass and good hair, but I know — I know — that I have principles, and one thing I don’t do is steal people’s boyfriends.” (This sentence contradicts Jessa's actions in earlier seasons, but the sentiment holds.)

“But you ruined that, don’t you see that?” Jessa continues as Adam stares at her stone-faced. “I’ll never forgive you. I will never forgive you.”

The argument escalates into a big, overly dramatic fight.

But the takeaway is that somehow the friendship between Hannah and Jessa is worth fighting for. Even though Jessa has chosen Adam, she mourns the loss of her friend. Friendship trumps romance. It is that important. It’s that big a deal.

The threat of betrayal isn’t as severe in Broad City, a show that attracts a small but passionate fanbase because of the symbiotic closeness between the two main characters, zany Ilana and the more reserved Abbi, played by real-life best friends Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. Their friendship has #goals all over it. They Skype from the bathroom and amuse each other with weird, hypothetical questions (“Which one of those dogs would you sleep with?”).

Broad City's first-season episodes — like the series of YouTube shorts that helped turn the show into a Comedy Central half-hour program — are sweet, bite-sized nuggets of humor. They depict the quotidian struggles of early twentysomething life in a big city through a gentle, surreal lens. The friends have disappointing sex, get locked out of their apartments, and struggle with annoying roommates. The brokeness of those first few years out of college, for aimless, adrift graduates is something a lot of TV shows don’t portray. That in itself is enough to keep the faithful going, and as a result, the show risks getting stale. Fortunately, the show’s writers chose to quietly up the stakes by introducing tension in Broad City’s third season. There’s the potential for a real fissure in the dynamic of Abbi and Ilana’s friendship, in ways that feel authentic to the low-key tone of the show: cue two men.

After 18 months of casual dating, Lincoln, the affable dentist played by Hannibal Buress, tells Ilana he is breaking up with her. Sitting on the unwieldy green chairs in Madison Square Park, Ilana, who has been the instigator of their open relationship, at first cannot comprehend that he is ending things with her. “But we can still hang out as friends, obviously?” Ilana asks.

Lincoln responds: “I don’t think we’re just friends, so…” A pause. “No.”

That is the radical notion of the series, the ways in which all these other things may fall away, but their friendship for each other is the glue.

Abbi, meanwhile, has been sleeping with the adorably earnest and occasionally grating Trey, her co-worker at the gym. (In one hilarious scene, while they're giving each other head in the shower, Trey asks Abbi on a date. She surprises herself by saying yes, and Trey is so overjoyed he orgasms.) But there’s still some residual shame from last season’s Trey incident where he hosted a party so lame that Ilana insisted on leaving the premises. And so Abbi assumes that Ilana would be mortified to learn about their budding relationship. A date at a fancy restaurant — the same fancy restaurant where Ilana and her parents are dining — results in an extended homage to Mrs. Doubtfire’s dinner-party scene as Abbi attempts to be both an attentive date and a supportive friend. (Ilana’s mother ropes Abbi into sitting at the family’s table in celebration of Ilana’s parents’ anniversary.) All goes wrong, and Abbi is found out when Ilana’s mother chokes and Trey comes to the rescue. Ilana exits the restaurant hastily, and, in the series’ most poignant moment, cries. Abbi rushes to comfort her. “I will never keep a secret like that from you again,” Abbi says. “It’s not even that. Lincoln broke up with me,” Ilana says, sobbing. “And he doesn’t even want to be friends. He never really did.”

Jemima Kirke and Lena Dunham in Girls.

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The episode ends with the women sitting in a bathtub together (how Girls-esque!) passing a joint and confessing the other things they may have left unsaid. Their friendship comes first. That is the radical notion of the series, the ways in which all these other things may fall away, but their friendship, their closeness, their love for each other transcends all else. It’s fitting, then, that in the two-part season finale, all the questions regarding boys — is Lincoln gone for good? What will happen with Trey? — are thrown aside. It’s the Bechdel test, perfected.

In the book The Social Sex: A History of Female Friendship, a work that inevitably fails to live up to its daunting title, the authors, Marilyn Yalom and Theresa Donovan Brown, write about how the median age for women’s first marriages dropped in the 1950s during the postwar economic boom. The rise of the feminist movement in the ’60s precipitated a reversal, and now, some 50-odd years later, single millennial women are a potent cultural force and so are their friendships.

For the twentysomethings in our TV shows, that’s unlikely to be the case forever. Girls creator Lena Dunham is 29, as is Glazer, while Jacobson is 32. Girls could have reasonably ended this season (as it stands, it has one more season left). Broad City, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth and a fifth season, but both Glazer and Jacobson seem aware of the essentially ephemeral nature of their show. “It doesn’t feel like it should exist forever. Just because of who they are,” said Jacobson in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in April. “It’s supposed to capture that certain part of life.”

The perpetual hangout sitcom, where actors visibly age but the characters don’t, these shows are not. Which is fitting. They will move on, move away, maybe settle into married life with kids, or not. They will certainly have less time. The dominant, overwhelming, emotionally draining tribulations of those twentysomething years will fade. But the impermanence of those friendships and the ability of these shows to capture them so aptly will not.

We Tried Sushi Burgers To See If They're Actually Worth The Hype

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We took a bite out of the newest food trend to see if it lived up to the two things we all love: burgers and sushi.

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12 Signs That Your Dog Is Playing You For A Sucker

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And you love it!

You lift your dog up onto the bed knowing full well THAT THEY CAN GET THERE ALL BY THEMSELVES.

You lift your dog up onto the bed knowing full well THAT THEY CAN GET THERE ALL BY THEMSELVES.

"I just can't do it. Look how little and cute I am!!!!!"

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They take up more than a person's worth of space on the bed AND YOU LET THEM.

They take up more than a person's worth of space on the bed AND YOU LET THEM.

AAAAAAAWWW...

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They'll eat dog food but only if it's RIGHT OUT OF YOUR HAND.

They'll eat dog food but only if it's RIGHT OUT OF YOUR HAND.

"Y'know, the bowl makes the food taste funny."

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And you just can't stay mad when they make a mess.

And you just can't stay mad when they make a mess.

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Goop Recommended A $15,000 Gold Dildo And People Are Like "WTF"

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More like dildon’t.

Gwenyth Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop has recommended products that will spice up your sex life in a most elegant way.

Gwenyth Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop has recommended products that will spice up your sex life in a most elegant way.

And if you love Goop's lifestyle advice (like this recipe for a $200 smoothie), you'll love what they've rounded up.

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The products include (among other things) $400 nipple clamps...

The products include (among other things) $400 nipple clamps...

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A $535 leather whip...

A $535 leather whip...

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...and the pièce de résistance, a 24-karat-gold dildo for $15,000.

...and the pièce de résistance, a 24-karat-gold dildo for $15,000.

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J.K. Rowling Just Gave This Fan The Most Perfect Possible Gift

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Expecto patronum.

Harry Potter author and wonderful woman J.K. Rowling is no stranger to helping fans deal with their dementors.

Harry Potter author and wonderful woman J.K. Rowling is no stranger to helping fans deal with their dementors.

Like when she told this fan that she deserves happiness and not to fight alone.

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This won't take long, I promise... I've been through (and am still going through) so many things in my life, from sexual assault to bullying to attempted suicide 8 times. I'm not proud of these things, but it's who I am. I'm also trying my hardest to stop self-harming. It hurts my body, but it hurts my soul more. I know you won't judge, that's why I'm telling you this. Another reason why I'm telling you this is because, through all the downs in my life, you helped me get through every single thing one way or another! You gave me a second, a third chance, you gave me so many chances in life and not taking them seriously wouldn't be fair to you. I will never be able to thank you enough, Jo. I wanna get "expecto patronum" tattooed on the wrist I usually cut the most, or somewhere else idk yet exactly, because I know that's gonna make me stop even if it takes a while. Please, Jo. I know I can slowly start to recover, but I need your help to do so. You've always been there and I know you'll always be. – Kate. ❤️


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