Women have the ultimate trump card when it comes to dealing with pain: they give birth. And since men have no idea what giving birth even feels like, we really don't know how painful it is. Maybe it's all a big conspiracy (kidding!). Maybe it's not that bad (of course it is!). Well, two men attached themselves to a machine that simulates labour pains and um, it ain't pretty. It looks torturously gruesome. Thank you women everywhere. Thank you. Read More >>
Featured comment by Wezley:
"if woman are putting men through the pain of childbirth, where is the 'getting a kick to the nuts' simulation for women?! bit of fairness is all im as..." More »
A 64-year-old man was left rather confused and angry after discovering his wife of the last 19 years originally left the factory as a man. She didn't tell him about her earlier, pre-sex-change life as a bloke. Read More >>
Ikea prints 208 million catalogues in 43 countries every year. They are all the same, except in Saudi Arabia, where women have been Photoshopped out because their photos "show too much skin," according to the Islamic Kingdom's laws. And it's not the only thing that gets altered. Read More >>
The Internet is a terribly sexist place and nothing proves that more than Google Autocomplete, which autocompletes potential searches with terms people often use on Google. Case in point: Start typing in 'women' in Google and see the weird and wild Autocomplete suggestions you get. Read More >>
We hear about this issue all the time: tech companies, even the big guns, have trouble attracting and retaining women. Interestingly enough, Google has taken the least human and most nerdiest possible route to tackling this gender issue—algorithms. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cantab:
"Google's bread and butter is reducing human problems into computable and analysable data; this is essentially no different. This article is almost sex..." More »
Hello there, shopper! You seem like the type who would be interested in some breaststablets. Can we interest you in our latest Windows 8 breasts tablet, with the revolutionary Breasto Metro UI? It feels great in a sultry paid actress's crotchthe hand, and we think the message that women, yoga, anything to do with Asian culture, and basically everything not nailed down or on fire is for undersexed manchildren to rutt with security and usability can come together to make great products is an important one. Read More >>
The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil. Read More >>
Featured comment by cinilak:
"So they got holes in the logic of their social system, and they wish to ban people from looking at other options, instead of adapting.
What a sham..." More »
Have you noticed that movie studios love to objectify an attractive actress by showing off her assets from behind on movie posters? Emily Asher-Perrin of Tor certainly spotted the trend and put together a convincing case about how awfully cliched it is. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"yeh, lets create a world where good looking women can't get famous by showing their ass on movie posters - and instead have to become a fascinating ch..." More »
If you often find yourself stuck for words in the presence of women, don't beat yourself up; we've all been there. But it turns out it's not you, it's science! Merely thinking about the presence of women makes men stupid. Read More >>
Featured comment by MythBusters Tour entertains with out-there science experiments | TechRepublic:
"[...] stated there is no shortage of show ideas; he referenced one study’s findings about men acting dumber if women are nearby or even if they thin..." More »
Until about 2004, most scientists believed that women were born will all the reproductive eggs they would have for the rest of their lives. Then a scientist named Jonathan Tilly published research that claimed women might actually replenish their supply of eggs throughout their lives. Read More >>
Do you remember your first break-up in great detail? Maybe sex from the other month? Or, most vividly, the really bad sex from last year? Turns out, men remember unpleasant and sexual experiences far more accurately than women. Read More >>
Featured comment by grovestreet:
"True, but have you ever tried to remind a women about the amazing blowie they gave you that one time and if they could recreate it, you'll watch their..." More »
CES is just around the corner, which means junk like this is showing up in my inbox. Hey, [REDACTED], did you put a butt in your email to remind me how shitty your products are? Because that's what I'm thinking. Read More >>
You know who sucks at maths? Almost everyone, that's who. Newsflash: the majority of humans do not do math because they love and excel at it. We mostly dislike it and are bad at it to boot. Read More >>
Featured comment by jdmitch:
"I don't know what slideshow you were watching, but the gist of Terri's is not that "the majority of humans do not do math because they love and excel ..." More »
Want your wife or girlfriend to remember that you need the car on Saturday?Drop your voice a few octaves. NPR reports that research conducted by Kevin Allan of the University of Aberdeen King's College in Scotland determined that women are more likely to remember something when spoken to in a low-pitch voice. Read More >>
In World War II's European theatre, women were often as brutal a soldier as their better-known male counterparts, if not more. This was especially so in the war-torn Soviet Union, Poland and within the notorious German SS. Read More >>