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The One Cool Trick All Men Need To Know To Do Yoga

You need to shut up before I kill you lol no but for real. → Read More

The One Cool Trick All Men Need To Know To Do Yoga

, there’s one rule of yoga, and it’s that you don’t make any noise at all. Yeah you just — It’s crazy, yeah. ABSOLUTELY none. You just keep breathing. No, there’s ... → Read More

The One Cool Trick All Men Need To Know To Do Yoga

The One Cool Trick All Men Need To Know To Do Yoga See, there’s one rule of yoga, and it’s that you don’t make any noise at all. Yeah you just — It’s crazy, yeah. ABSOLUTELY none. You just keep breathing. No, there’s no grunting. That’s for picking up dudes at CrossFit. Oh you’re straight, haha, weird, sorry. Anyway like, if you’re straining and it hurts, you should like just stop and chill out.… → Read More

How Many Guests Constitute an Orgy?

A quiet night in with some friends. → Read More

Seven Truly Ill-Advised Pieces I Have Mostly Written but Never Published

Thank God I didn't publish these stories. Although, surely I've published worse? → Read More

Y Kant Johnny Edit

The media, Rihanna, you, us, them. → Read More

How Will Bostonians Observe "Patti Smith Day" Tomorrow?

Boston, America's Greatest City!!! → Read More

A Handy Test for Reddit Users: Are You on the Internet Right Now?

Sometimes it's hard to tell if you are on the Internet or not. For example you are almost always typing into a box on a series of screens on your computer. Because of this, there are whole sections of the ... → Read More

The 105 Most-Poachable Gawker Media Editorial Employees Right Now

From Jim Cooke to Kyle Wagner, which Gawker Media employee will YOU hire now? → Read More

Forget Scalia! Justice Roberts Is a Total Marriage Moron

Made-up garbage at the Supreme Court. → Read More

Alessandra Stanley and the Diminishment of Criticism

What happened here? → Read More

Three Moments in White and Black History in Charleston, South Carolina

"We actually have negroes in Council. It is the hardest thing we have yet had done to us." → Read More

Why Do We Publish Our Personal Horror Stories? An Interview with Evelyn Everlady

A look back at Negroni Season, five years later. → Read More

Hey, Guess What Film Isn't a Light Romp Through Ironic Misogyny?

Entourage? More like VOMITage. → Read More

Here's Which Way Your Favorite Gawker Editor Is Voting in the Secret Union Ballot!

A summary of how Gawker Media editors are voting next week. → Read More

Here's the Email Everyone Got about Fusion CEO Isaac Lee and All His Buddies at Work

Meet the Friends of Isaac Lee. → Read More

Top Ten Oscar-Worthy Sigourney Weaver Performances, In Order

10. Alien 3 9. Dave 8. Gorillas in the Mist 7. Cabin in the Woods 6. Alien 5. The Ice Storm 4. Aliens 3. Death and the Maiden 2. Working Girl 1. Copycat → Read More

Andrea Dworkin, Men's Rights Advocate

Last night I accidentally got dragged into some right-wing anti-feminist thing on Twitter about how there is a war on men because their good reputations are all besmirched when someone is accused of rape. (Oh no, if only there was ... → Read More

How I Got My iPhone to Finally Let Me Swear

I was on vacation last week (while apparently you all fell for some app that just sent the word “yo” to each other, and also all suddenly became soccer fan… → Read More

The Unverified

A few months back, Mike Hayes, who's a senior reporter at BuzzFeed and who also runs the official BuzzFeed Twitter account, sent around an email to the office. Twitter, he reported, was going to be verifying the whole staff at ... → Read More