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Why We Still Aren't Talking About Men's Eating Disorders Kayla Kibbe, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In a room decorated with butterflies and inspirational quotes from female celebrities, a doctor hands a patient information about his recent eating disorder diagnosis. Using female pronouns, the pamphlet explains how the patient’s menstrual cycle will resume with recovery. Even for James L. Downs, “a gay yoga teacher who is in touch with his inner goddess,” this feels alienating. “I can only wonder how out of place a gym bro with an eating disorder might have felt in such a setting,...

Comedian Chris Gethard Is the Unexpected Mental Health Champion We Need Right Now Danny Agnew, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail His podcast As a society, we’re in the midst of a redefinition of what it means to be “smart.” The dehumanizing effects of relentless algorithmic optimization and data-driven thinking have brought into sharp relief the value of emotional intelligence (commonly referred to as “EQ”) as a key leadership skill and a springboard to not only individual success, but collective success as well. With an eye toward this welcome sea change, we’ve partnered with ou...

Is "Zoom Dysmorphia" Giving Rise to a Plastic Surgery Boom? Michael Stahl, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail For years, Marie, a pseudonymous woman living in the Bay Area, subjected herself to extraordinary levels of vulnerability: She taught English to high school freshmen. “Fourteen-year-olds are some of the most judgemental people on the planet,” Marie says. “I stood in front of them for hours every day and I did not feel the level of self consciousness that I started to feel when I had to be on Zoom all the time.” The 27-year-old is between careers now, working toward a project ma...

Gwyneth Paltrow's False Remedies Will Not Protect You From "Long COVID" Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Last week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a new initiative to study a phenomenon known unofficially as “long COVID.” You likely know of someone grappling with it. It refers to those still struggling with symptoms of COVID-19 — especially brain fog, fatigue or shortness of breath — in the weeks or even months following their initial bout with the illness. Even if we manage to end the pandemic this year, the reach of long COVID could affect mil...

Jonah Hill Offers a Refreshingly Honest Take on Male Body Shaming Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Daily Mail thing, posting intrusive beach paparazzi photos of actor Jonah Hill surfing in Malibu. There are images of him catching waves, wiping out and changing out of his wetsuit into a sweatshirt. That last bit, in the Daily Mail‘s estimation at least, seemed to be the collection’s calling card — they describe a “clinging black wetsuit” and a “sprawl of tattoos as he went shirtless.” The subtext is pretty clear: gather ’round and get a look at the body of a f...