Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

For better or worse, YouTube is part of our collective online lives, now. Even if you’re not someone who spends a lot of time there, you’ve probably popped on to watch a video someone sent, or maybe figure out how to fix something around the house you didn’t want to pay someone else to do,...

No matter how much we collectively hate them, double standards are a way of life. That doesn’t mean we should quit talking about them, though, or pointing them out or railing against why they’re so dumb and unfair. These 18 people aren’t afraid to do just that, and so here are the double standards that...

As someone who has had the opportunity to meet a fair number of celebrities – big and small – in real life, I can tell you it’s a bit of a crapshoot. They can surprise you by being nicer than you expected, more horrible than you expected, or honestly, anywhere on that sliding scale in...

Over the past several years, millions of people have ordered a DNA kit from one service or another, spit into a tube, stuck it in the mail, and then gotten results that parsed not only their countries and cultures of origin, but have helped them track down previously unknown family members, too. For some –...

Even though it seems counterintuitive, it’s totally human to put our human feelings and emotions onto objects that are incapable of, you know. Feeling anything at all. Have you ever felt sorry for something that wasn’t alive? Treated it as if it was alive, just in case? An entire generation who grew up with the Toy Story movies...

The holidays are full of cheer and fun times with family, with laughing together and eating good food, and a bunch of other stuff I honestly wish we could get together to do more often, and not just a handful of times throughout the year. These 14 families add an extra layer of fun by...

Society certainly has a specific idea about what they think is attractive, don’t you think? We’re told that one certain look is pretty or handsome, or something we should want, but the truth is that people are attractive to all kinds of different things and aspects of other people. These 10 people not only aren’t...

College is a fun and exciting time in a young person’s life, and part of that excitement is often making new friends. If you’re someone who didn’t meet your roommate until move-in day, then you know that person can go one of two ways – you can end up being best friends for life or...

There are so many things about becoming parents that aren’t talked about enough – things that should be talked about, because if there’s anything you should prepare for as much as possible, it’s having a kid. At the top of that list, though is postpartum depression and its cousins, postpartum anxiety and postpartum psychosis. Too many...

Listen, I know that, just from the title, most of you are already making a negative judgment of the original poster here. I mean, all teenagers make questionable choices – it’s like, an essential part of being a teenager – and very rarely does it work out well for parents to intervene. This mom says...

In recent years, food allergies among kids have become a bigger issue for everyone who has children, whether they have allergies or not. We have to watch what we pack in our kid’s lunches, we have to be considerate when we’re bringing snacks to sporting events, the whole nine yards. This woman’s daughter and her...

For some reason, weddings can bring out the worst in people. I don’t know if it’s the money, the sense of losing/gaining family, or something else altogether, but there are so many posts asking about how to handle someone behaving badly around the event. In this woman’s case, her mother has an issue with her...

You know those people everyone assumes are smart? They’re politicians or big-wig businessmen or even scientists who are always giving their opinions on the news? Sometimes it turns out they’re not that smart at all – but how can you tell? One way is to listen to Reddit, who obviously knows everything, and to these...

When you’re writing a book or a script, you have complete control over that world and the characters who live inside it. You decide who’s bad, who’s good, and who is going to be the winner in the end. Once you put that book or movie out into the world, though, everyone else gets to...

Most of the time we’re hoping that animals don’t go extinct, or we’re talking about ways we can stop that from happening, but let’s be honest – not all animals are really doing their best to endear themselves to humanity, right? These 15 people piped right up when someone asked what species they would like to...