On September 2, Time ran an essay written by a woman named Jessi Hempel detailing her transgender brother Evan's pregnancy and the birth of his baby son. Evan was born female and opted not to have the double mastectomy that some trans men undergo during their transitions. His partner is a woman, so the pregnancy was achieved using artificial insemination:

My brother has a female partner, so he inseminated using donor sperm. It took a while. The first time Evan tried, five years ago, he was unsuccessful. He took a break before starting again three years ago. He stopped his T (testosterone) shots, [his doctor] prescribed two medications to trigger ovulation and monitored Evan’s body throughout the process to get the timing right.

For some trans men, pregnancy can be especially uncomfortable due to psychological issues that can arise from the resurgence of the female attributes they've worked so hard to quash. Jessi explains:

My brother has a good friend, also trans, who’d gotten pregnant a year earlier. He’d had a rough pregnancy because he felt a traumatizing disconnect between his masculinity and the female attributes of his body. He took medical leave from work for much of the time and was relieved to restart testosterone immediately after his child’s healthy birth. I spoke to another trans dad who had given birth to his son at age 20. He said the pregnancy catapulted him into depression. "It was as if all the things I’d hated about my body were re-emerging, and I felt awful about myself," he told me. Evan didn’t have this experience. "It was a gamble," he said. "I didn’t know how I’d feel, but it turns out I just feel like it’s really cool that my body can do this."

Jessi recounts meeting her new nephew for the first time, and seeing all the sea horse stuff around her brother and his partner's apartment—chosen specifically for the symbolism, as male sea horses are the ones who give birth after carrying the eggs in a pouch.

Evan will continue to chest-feed for a while. Eventually, he’ll begin taking testosterone again. His beard will fill out, and the fuzz will return to his knuckles. His chest will shrink to the point where his bind will be comfortable to wear again. To outsiders, his family will look like any other–a tossed-together group of kids and adults raising one another. At night, my brother will watch his son lift a tiny fist above his head as he sleeps and know what all parents know: this baby is a miracle.

A dude who just started working at Target shared some standout moments from his first week of employment on Tumblr. And what a week it was. He sold lingerie to old ladies, got stealing advice from a "large man," and outed the in-sore Starbucks barista... and that was just the first day. His post has already gotten over 140k notes. You can read the entire hilarious, four day saga below:

God bless Target, where the youngest and oldest of us have the same level of manners.

Gabrielle Union just did something amazing, and you should read every word of it. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Union addressed the past charges of rape against Nate Parker, the writer, director, and star of her new film, the highly anticipated Birth of a Nation. Parker was accused of raping a classmate in college. The victim of this alleged assault committed suicide ten years after the alleged rape. Parker was acquitted in a 2001 trial on what some feel was a technicality.

In the piece, Union came out as a survivor of sexual assault, and emotionally expressed her raw feelings about the Parker rape allegations.

Twenty-four years ago I was raped at gunpoint in the cold, dark backroom of the Payless shoe store where I was then working. Two years ago I signed on to a brilliant script called “The Birth of a Nation,” to play a woman who was raped. One month ago I was sent a story about Nate Parker, the very talented writer, director and star of this film. Seventeen years ago Nate Parker was accused and acquitted of sexual assault. Four years ago the woman who accused him committed suicide.

She went on to discuss the importance of her taking the role in Nation, where she plays a woman brutally silenced by sexual assault...

I took this role because I related to the experience. I also wanted to give a voice to my character, who remains silent throughout the film. In her silence, she represents countless black women who have been and continue to be violated. Women without a voice, without power. Women in general. But black women in particular. I knew I could walk out of our movie and speak to the audience about what it feels like to be a survivor.

She then powerfully focused on the victim in the Parker rape allegations...

As important and ground-breaking as this film is, I cannot take these allegations lightly. On that night, 17-odd years ago, did Nate have his date’s consent? It’s very possible he thought he did. Yet by his own admission he did not have verbal affirmation; and even if she never said “no,” silence certainly does not equal “yes.” Although it’s often difficult to read and understand body language, the fact that some individuals interpret the absence of a “no” as a “yes” is problematic at least, criminal at worst.

Finally, she addresses the complexity of having public awareness of sexual assaults...

I know these conversations are uncomfortable and difficult and painful. But they are necessary. Addressing misogyny, toxic masculinity, and rape culture is necessary. Addressing what should and should not be deemed consent is necessary... Think of all the victims who, like my character, are silent. The girls sitting in their dorm rooms, scared to speak up. The wife who is abused by her husband. The woman attacked in an alley. The child molested. Countless souls broken from trans-violence attacks. It is for you that I am speaking. This is real. We are real. Sexual violence happens more often than anyone can imagine. And if the stories around this film do not prove and emphasize this, then I don’t know what does.

Seriously, go read every word of what she wrote. And then forward it to your friends, your children, your family. The first step towards ending sexual assaults is talking about sexual assaults. And like, mad props to Gabrielle Union for her bravery.

Brock Turner, the Stanford rapist who received the ridiculously lenient sentence of six months after raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, has just been released after only three months. His time was halved for "good behavior." Ellen Cushing was there on the steps of Santa Clara county jail to capture Turner's reverse perp walk toward the rest of his life.

Turner, dressed like he is ready to meet his boys for cocktails, keeps his eyes down the whole time and ignores reporters as he steps toward a white SUV. The only question that can be made out is, "Are you going to say you're sorry Brock?" He gave no response, which is to be expected considering his best known method of communication is texting pictures of his victim's breasts.

Judge Persky, the man who gifted Turner the light punishment due to "special circumstances" (being a privileged white Olympic hopeful), has voluntarily removed himself from hearing criminal cases starting next week due to the public outcry against him.

According to the AP, Turner will move back to Ohio to live with his parents while he serves three years of supervised probation, and he must register as a sex offender for life. The package he is carrying is hate mail the jail collected for him to receive upon release. Looks like he'll have plenty of reading material on his trip back to freedom.

Dax Shepard celebrated being 12 years sober yesterday, and it seems sobriety has been good to him. Yesterday, he tweeted:

Shepard's hashtags "#gratitude" and "#promises" are a subtle nod to 12-step programs. Whatever he's doing, it seems to be working for him! The 41-year-old actor is married to actress Kristen Bell, and the two of them have been refreshingly open about their mental health struggles. Bell, 36, has spoken and written about dealing with depression.

They're also a goofy couple who make being married look supes fun.

Of course, if you're thinking about getting sober yourself: getting a wife, babies and self-esteem aren't a guarantee. But you might get at least one of those things. Plus, take it from me, you won't lose your cellphone and keys nearly as often.

Summer feels long at exactly two times in life: when you're a little kid, and when you're a stay-at-home parent of little kids. Keeping them fed, not fighting each other, and enduring how much they whine about how bored they are is a full-time-plus job. For many parents, the first day of school is basically the start of their vacation. Here are some who are unabashedly pleased that the kids are out of the house.

1. Seven up…and out.

2. Momosas!

3. Two opposite thoughts which perfectly summarize parenting.

4. Ain't no party like a kid-free party.

5. And the presents are naps.

6. Molly Weasley is looking forward to a quiet spell.

7. Up top.

8. From whining to wining.

9. A real sentimental one right here.

10. Look out, behind you!

11. Fly high, angel, fly high.

12. She's alive!

13. If you buy them crayons and stuff, they suddenly just start leaving each morning.

14. What a drag.

Writer Jennifer Wright only had to walk through a magazine aisle to find this perfect example of how we treat boys and girls differently. She tweeted a side-by-side comparison of a magazine meant for girls and one for boys on Thursday:

The girls' magazine's headlines like "Wake Up Pretty" and "Your Dream Hair" seem much more ridiculous when paired against Boys' Life's "Explore Your Future." Yes, Boys' Life was created for Boy Scouts, while Girls' Life is just a lifestyle magazine (there is no magazine for Girl Scouts), but the messages are still clear: girls should learn how to be pretty, boys should learn how to be successful. In the day that Wright's tweet has been up, it has been shared over 5k times, but not all of the response has been positive.

Explainers and trolls were quick to point out that the masthead of Girls' Life is stocked with women, but failed to acknowledge that those women are just businesspeople following up on a society that promotes girls' usage of makeup and fashion at an early age. Damn them for making me think the phrase "tools of the patriarchy" at the beginning of a holiday weekend.

Pretty much everyone else understood immediately the implications of these magazine covers.

Ironically, some found the Boy's Life cover to be sexist as well, stating that a boy's only value was placed on their career instead of their being. It kind of feels like an argument for argument's sake, but let's take that note. Instead of separating girls and boys before they've even made it to middle school, how about making one magazine that appeals to both and naming it Kids' Life?

Anthony Gargiula has earned plenty of fans by singing on Instagram, Vine, and Twitter, but it was a tweet about his grandparents' dorky love that went most viral of all. The tweet reads, simply, "my grandparents have been married for 52 years and they match outfits every day." Using only four photos (the most you can have in a tweet), Gargiula told a love story even more efficiently than the first ten minutes of UP, and got retweeted 39,000 times by aww-struck fans.

The grandparents have been alerted to their new fame, although it's unclear whether or not they care.

It's been 10 years since Christopher Guest (the genius behind This Is Spinal Tap and Best In Show) directed a movie, and frankly, that's 10 years too long. Well, the wait is finally about to end, because Netflix released the trailer for his new movie, Mascots.

Are you screaming? Because we are.

Guest film regulars like Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, and Fred Willard are back, with some new faces like Chris O'Dowd and Silicon Valley's Zach Woods. Conspicuously missing are Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (they're probably too busy being hilarious on Schitt's Creek). Regardless, the trailer looks like serious LOLs.

The film is a look into the competitive world of mascots. That's all we know, and we're just fine with that. Here are our favorite moments from the trailer...

Danny "the anatomically correct" Donkey

Parker Posey doing literally anything.

Chris O'Dowd's "The Fist" humping a stranger.

And Jennifer Coolidge saying this. Who cares if it's out of context.

Mascots premieres on Netflix October 13.

It's officially back-to-school time! You've stocked up on pens, pencils, and crayons for your kids, but there are some indulgences every mom needs this time of year as well. Whether you were dropping the kids at day camp at the crack of dawn or stuck with the little darlings at home yourself, you deserve to pick up these 5 parental must haves for your grown-up back- to-school celebration. (Or gift them to their dad, if he was the one watching them all summer!)

1. R-rated movies.

After a summer watching Frozen on repeat, you can finally put on a movie where people drop the F-bomb. May I also suggest something with hunks?

Magic Mike and the far superior Magic Mike XXL are both streaming on HBO Go right now. What was your password again? YayTheyGone69, Freedom420, Hunks4life?

2. Wine, wine, and more wine.

Uh yeah, this one's self-explanatory.

3. New music

Let's face it: the only song you've heard all summer was the Kidz Bop version of Justin Bieber's "Sorry." Now that the school bus is ferrying your kids everywhere they need to go, the car radio is yours again. Yeah, girl, get wild and crank up that hard-core shit you used to listen to back in the day.

4. Other moms

You can't truly go buck wild mom style without your gal-pals. Call out sick to work, wrangle up your stressed-out mom friends and get lunch, mani-pedis, or dirty martinis ... or all of the above. It's been a long summer. You deserve it.

5. Pictures of your kids

It's only been a few hours, but you miss those little maniacs.

Jimmy Kimmel is back at it with another round of "Whose Parents are These?" where he Skypes in a mystery celebrity's parents and has to guess who their kid is based off a series of questions.

Last time, Seth Rogan's parents appeared on the show and Jimmy couldn't seem to figure out who their offspring was, so it is time for REDEMPTION! See if you can guess what baby these two people made before Jimmy does.

He would have gotten it a lot sooner if only he asked, "does your son get hit in the balls for a living?"

Brock Turner is out of prison after serving 90 whole days for rape. Sentenced to six months for sexual assault, already a light sentence, Turner got out on "good behavior" after being sentenced for the truly horrifying behavior of raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster.

While Turner's jail time ended up being the same length as his Stanford classmates' summer internships, here are 10 celebrities who were in the clink for longer, most for non-violent crimes.

1. Martha Stewart

How long: Five months.

Why: The Duchess of Homemaking was found guilty of conspiracy (!!!) for "obstruction of an agency proceeding and making false statements to federal investigators after she was accused of corporate fraud." Thankfully, no curtains were harmed in the committing of her crimes.

2. Tim Allen

How long: 2 years

Why: One of America's dads was caught with 1.4 pounds of cocaine, plead guilty to drug trafficking charges and spent 1979-1981 behind bars. But now he is out, to infinity and beyond.

3. Lil Wayne

How long: Five months.

Why: Lil Wayne was arrested outside his tour bus in 2010 for smoking marijuana and unlicensed possession of a firearm. He didn't use the firearm or rape anyone behind a dumpster, but he did spend 2 months longer in jail than Turner. Surely, some other factor must have colored the judicial process here.

4. Robert Downey Jr.

How long: One year of a three-year sentence.

Why: Before he was Iron Man, RDJ was sentenced to three years at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison for A) missing a drug test on his probation, and B) trespassing into a neighbor's home and falling asleep on their bed while high.

5. Wesley Snipes

How long: 2 years and 5 months.

Why: Failing to file federal income tax returns a whole bunch of times.

6. Danny Trejo

How long: 11 years between 1959 and 1972.

Why: Drug and robbery charges. He has since starred in a Muppets movie.

7. Lil' Kim

How long: A year and a day.

Why: She lied to a jury to cover for a friend who was involved in a shooting.

8. James Brown

How long: Three years of a six year sentence.

Why: He failed to stop for police in a two-state car chase.

9. Ja Rule

How long: 2 years.

Why:Tax evasion and a weapons charge.

10. Mike Tyson

How long: 3 years.

Why: Ok, this one was actually rape. But, uh, he was charming on Lip Sync Battle, so the public seems to forget it.

11. Chris Brown

How long: 108 days of a 131 day sentence.

Why: Brown was put on probation after assaulting Rihanna in 2009, and was jailed for violating his probation. He is a bad person, but still not rape-someone-behind-a-dumpster bad.

Fewer American teens are getting pregnant, and the reason is ...

Birth control! That makes sense, given that it's called birth control.

Births by teenagers ages 15 to 19 decreased by 36% between 2007 and 2013, according to federal data. You might think that's because teens had stopped having sex, but haha, no. A new study, which was published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that teens are not having less sex and they're also having fewer abortions. In that case, all signs point to teens using more birth control.

Researchers found teens were using all types of birth control more often and were more likely to combine methods (such as, say, condoms and the pill).

In 2016, there's basically a buffet of options to keep your uterus empty. So which method is best? According to the study's lead author, Laura Lindberg rom the Guttmacher Institute, what matters most is that you use anything.

"If a teen uses no method they have an 85 percent chance of getting pregnant [within a year]," said Lindberg. "Using anything is way more effective than that 85 percent risk." She added that the best method for teens is "one that they are willing and able to use."

The world is your oyster!

Summer's over and school is officially back in session. Whether you're mourning the end of those long hot summer days, or celebrating the fact that your kids are finally out of the house, here are some fun back to school movies you can stream online right now.

1. Footloose (Netflix)

Imagine starting a new high school. That sucks right? Now imagine starting a new high school where you aren't allowed to dance? That's the shit Kevin Bacon is trying to deal with in the 80s classic Footloose.

Below is my favorite scene in Footloose, where Kevin Bacon teaches his man-friend Willard to dance. They don't make movies like this one anymore, folks. (Mention the 2011 remake-and you're dead to me.)

2. Bring It On (Netflix)

Bring It On stars Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union as cheerleaders competing for a national title. As boring as that synopsis sounds, this is actually a really fun movie.

3. Mean Girls (Netflix)

Duh, of course you've seen Mean Girls a hundred times already, but it's a great back to school movie to get you in the mood. After being home schooled in Africa, Cady (Lindsay Lohan) becomes one of the most popular girls in a public high school. They are mean girls, yo. It's not just a clever title.

4. Heathers (Netflix)

Heathers is basically Mean Girls with shoulder pads. This cult classic stars 90s icons Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Brenda Walsh Shannon Doherty in a very dark comedy about high school cliques. ​If you don't love this movie, then seriously what is your damage?

Side note: I watched this movie on VHS like every single day in junior high and made a Christian Slater scrap book out of pictures of him from Tiger Beat magazine. (Yes, I'm really old.)

5. Billy Madison (Amazon)

Billy (Adam Sandler) is a spoiled, lazy rich kid who has to repeat kindergarten through high school in order to inherit his father's fortune. Trust me, you'll be quoting this one 'til Christmas break.

6. Legally Blonde (Netflix)

Legally Blonde is a back to school girl power classic. Reese Witherspoon plays Elle Woods, a blonde sorority sister who's dumped by her boyfriend for not being serious enough. She attends Harvard Law School to win him back. What like it's hard?

7. Can't Buy Me Love (Netflix)

In this 80s teen comedy classic, pre-McDreamy Patrick Dempsey is a geeky high school nerd who pays a popular cheerleader a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend so that he can be popular by association.

Spoiler alert they ride off into the sunset together on a riding lawn mower. God, I love the 80s.

8. Old School (Amazon)

Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, and Vince Vaughn prove you don't have to be in college to party like it. This hilarious movie will make you laugh and want to repeat everything in college, except the hangovers.

The list could go on and on, but none of us have time for that. Complete your back to school movie marathon with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 10 Things I Hate About You, Not Another Teen Movie, Never Been Kissed, and Can't Hardly Wait to name a few. What are your favorites? Let us know in the comments.

One day, you're a teen yelling "God, Dad, I know how to drive a car!" and then suddenly it's years later, a light is blinking on your dashboard, and you have no. Effing. Clue. What. It. Means. You can't ask your dad now, and the guys at the auto shop are just plain mean. Is this an emergency or can you deal with it tomorrow? Should you just ditch it on the side of the road and fake your own death instead of ask for help? NO! Never fear, here is a guide to the many, many light-up symbols found on car dashboards everywhere and what they mean:

It's unclear where that guide first comes from. The earliest link we could find was on a JoyReactor page from about a year ago.

"But hold up, that isn't every single light indicator. MY car has..." you're saying. Yes. We know. Here are even more for Honda users:

And if you still need more light symbols explained, Jalopnik has their own guide.

And if you went through all that and still don't know what's wrong with your car, just call AAA already, jeez.

According to a new study, offering employees pizza as a reward for increased productivity does more to motivate them than cash.Apparently, melted cheese on tomato-y bread beats having more money after rent and food-that-is-not-pizza. It sounds weird, but think of it this way: employees already get paid some money and zero pizza. More money is nice, but that's an infinity percent increase in pizza! (More importantly, the whole team enjoys pizza together and people value social approval a lot.)

The study is featured in a new book called Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, written by Duke University psychology professor Dan Ariely. The study took place in an Intel factory in Israel, where groups of workers were offered either pizza, compliments, or a cash bonus on three separate days for producing more computer chips.

On the first day, the pizza group's productivity increased by a whopping 6.7 percent. Compliments increased production by a close second, at 6.6 percent. The cash bonus (about $30) only boosted productivity by only 4.9 percent.

Here's the weirdest part: on the second day, the group being offered cash performed 13.2 percent worse than the control group, who weren't promised anything.

Over the long term, the study found that compliments were the best way to consistently motivate employees to work at max productivity. This makes sense, because humans thrive off validation, and because even pizza gets boring eventually The author of the study did say he thought pizza would work better if it was possible for the employees to have it delivered at home, because "we not only would give them a gift, but we would also make them heroes in the eyes of their families."

In conclusion, people work harder if their boss remembers to say "great job, buddy!" once in a while or gives the team a pizza party for good work. No one cares about the mall gift card corporate is offering to the team with the best sales. (Here's the thing, though: do people know that money can buy pizza?)

Anyway, if someone could please forward this to our boss, we would appreciate any of the above.

Teyana Taylor, the breakout star of Kanye West's "Fade" music video, has mesmerized the world as both an incredibly fit, dancing human and as (an incredibly fit, dancing) cat. Taylor talked to VH1 about Kanye's vision, a journey that takes us from the gym to the steamiest possible shower with her real-life husband Iman Shumpert, and finally as a human cat surrounded by sheep.

Taylor talked about how trusting Kanye as a director helped her issues in her personal life, and how her personal life is really like that shower scene.

Here's the video in case you haven't seen it yet and want to have sheep-based nightmares that'll make it harder to count sheep.

This Cats revival will haunt your Memory.