Jealous partners are one of the most common tropes when we discuss toxic relationships and bad partners. There are the jealous types who are controlling and don't want their lovers to have any friendships or relationships other than the romantic partnership they're already in. There are the types who behave like conspiracy theorists, convinced that when you don't text back you MUST be in someone else's DMs. There are also the ones who stalk, combing over their partner's internet presence lookin…

It's excruciating

This one's for the books.

Being tall can be rough. I am a person of the tall experience, but that claim does come with some caveats. I'm 5'11, which is tall for a girl, but not for a guy. Being 5'11 would've been the bane of my existence if I were a man. I would spend every waking hour cursing the inch that I did not have but believed I deserved. Since I'm a woman, I enjoy my days being moderately tall and mostly forgetting about my above-average stature. When I was in elementary and middle school, being tall was way mo…

We've all been through it- something so deeply cringey that it prevents you from sleeping at night every time you think about it, and it's just constantly floating through your mind. It's the absolute worst, but at least we've all suffered from some cringey moments. Earlier this week, writer Caroline Moss asked Twitter to share moments of their lives that seemed more like a bad movie than something IRL. She offered up a tale of being broken up for "not being Jewish enough" while at a National c…

Pete Davidson is the new must-have in Hollywood

We should all be supportive of our partners' career choices…within reason. When u/Content_Profession63 's fiancé quit his job to become a professional Twitch streamer, she encouraged him to follow his passion and even agreed to financially support the both of them with her online business. Seven months later, OP's fiancé was doing plenty of gaming, but still hadn't even gotten around to creating a Twitch account. OP's tolerance for BS finally waned when her fiancé asked her for an expensive gam…

If someone says they don't have any deal breakers, they're probably lying. Or they're just huge pushovers and desperately lonely. And while we feel for people like that, we gotta say: deal breakers are a healthy part of dating . Having this ultimate red flag in your mind, especially when dating online, can help you maintain important boundaries, and also help you dodge some serious bullets. If course, there are many kinds of deal breakers. Some are minor, some are shallow, and some actually mak…

Some big asks

There are so many underbellies of the internet that expose just how much some men truly hate women. They are obsessed with dehumanizing women and seeing them as none other than baby-making machines, put on this earth to be a submissive companion for a man. Even though seeing such blatant sexism can be kind of depressing, it can also be kind of amusing that people actually think like this. My favorite trad hot take is that women were “gatherers” of berries and nuts in ancient civilizations, and…

The audacity

Just do a lipa.

We're all in this together

Dating is hard. And now that things are dying down a little, Covid-wise, we expect the scene is going to get a whole lot crazier. While it's great that those romantic Zoom meetups are (mostly) a thing of the past, there were some perks to getting acquainted to a Tinder or Bumble date ahead of meeting them in person. Namely, being able to get a feel for the suitor's idiosyncrasies before having to get stuck on a date with them in real life. It's a lot easier to close the laptop on a doomed tryst…

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

When I was a bartender, customers would often rack up huge tabs over several hours, ordering martinis at the busiest moments and shots for everyone at the bar minutes before closing. The most ostentatious customers were usually the ones who would ditch the bar without closing their tabs, and 90% of the time, those cards would decline. It's a risky scam, but people who work in the service industry know better than most that customers can be shockingly audacious. As much as we wish we could expos…