It's 2017 and a lot of people still think periods are something to be ashamed of instead of a punk rock reminder that your body can literally CREATE LIFE. But times they are a changin'! Thanks in part to heroes like Stephanie Góngora, a yoga instructor with a popular Instagram account, who posted a stunning video where she does various difficult poses while bleeding through her white pants.

"I am a woman, therefore I bleed," she wrote under the video, which has been viewed over half-a-million times. You can watch here:

Góngora explains in the caption that she's not intentionally "free bleeding," but the blood stain is from a "leak" (which has happened to every woman at some point). And she chose to post the video to make an important statement about menstruation.

She wrote:

I am a woman, therefore, I bleed.

It's messy, it's painful, it's terrible, & it's beautiful.

And yet, you wouldn't know. Because I hide it.

I bury things at the bottom of the trash. I breathe, ragged and awkward through the cramps, all the while holding onto this tight lipped, painted on smile.

Tampons? Shhh. We don't say those words out loud. Hide them. In the back pocket of your purse, in the corner of the bathroom drawer, at the very bottom of your shopping cart (please let me get a female cashier).

Events or engagements get missed. I'll tell myself it’s the PMS, sure, but it has more to with the risk of being "caught," at what...I'm not quite sure.

And I’m lucky.

Over 100 million young women around the globe miss school or work for lack of adequate menstrual supplies, & fear of what might happen if the world witnesses A NATURAL BODILY FUNCTION.

WHY?

Because hundreds of years of culture have made us embarrassed to bleed. Have left us feeling dirty and ashamed.

STOP PRETENDING. Stop using silly pet names like Aunt Flo because you're too afraid to say "I'm bleeding" or "vagina." Stop wasting so much effort hiding the very thing that gives this species continuity.

START talking about it. Educate your daughters. Make them understand that it can be both an inconvenience and a gift, but NEVER something to be ashamed about. Educate your sons so they don't recoil from the word tampon. So when a girl bleeds through her khaki shorts in third period (pun intended), they don't perpetuate the cycle of shame and intolerance.

A lot of people were grossed out by the video and said so in the comments (thanks, good to know!). But many others found it inspiring:

I wish I'd seen this video in 8th grade when I bled through my khakis (it was the 90s) in math class and felt shame about it for the rest of the year, and for years after. Actually, until today when I watched this video.

So, there you have it. One woman's period stain is another woman's liberation! Let's burn our tampons and let the menstrual revolution begin!!!!!!

Sorry, I got carried away. Let's not burn our tampons. Those things are expensive.

No, you do not need to understand the rules of basketball or even fill out a bracket to enjoy the beauty that is March Madness. All you need to do is watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus cheer on her son, Charlie Hall, who plays for Northwestern.

Don't you feel the spirit? Last night Northwestern took on Vanderbilt in a nail-biter of a game. Northwestern ended up grabbing a 68-66 victory and well, I bet you didn't care about that until you saw how much the "Veep" star cared.

Now that's some basketball! Of course Louis-Dreyfus is the ultimate mom fan. This isn't the first time she's been caught on camera cheering on Charlie, but the stakes are even higher now that March Madness has begun. She even pulled out some old Elaine gifs to celebrate Northwestern being included in the tournament.

Man, I love sports.

On Friday, Trump had a meeting with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, which he said went very well, despite the fact that he seemingly refused to shake her hand. This morning he woke up and tweeted about it. It starts out okay...

...and ends up bad:

Henceforth history shall refer to this tweet as "In Which The President Reveals He Has No Idea What NATO Is Or How It Works." The President frequently brought up on the campaign trail that Germany and other members of the organization have not paid their dues, which The New Yorker examined for validity in July. (This interview also sheds some light on how NATO actually works, if you are interested.) His statements then, as well as his tweet today, demonstrate both a lack of respect for the value of solidarity which is "a key value for NATO" according to the organizations Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and a total misunderstanding of exactly how NATO works. And the internet was quick to let him know:

God this could end badly.

Monopoly has spoken: Boot, wheelbarrow and thimble are out. T-rex, penguin and rubber ducky are in. All is fair in love and board games, and that's just how it is.

What incited the shake up? I cannot say for sure, but personally I think it is very clear that Monopoly is making commentary on the denigration of blue collar work in America. A boot, a wheelbarrow and a thimble? Do you really think it is just coincidence that the three game pieces that were ousted represent the tough manual labor jobs that have all but disappeared? Of course it's not!

To select the new game tokens, Monopoly had fans vote for what they wanted, CNNreports. Is this the world we live in now? A world where soft millennials get to play a game about the ruthlessness of capitalism with a freaking RUBBER DUCKY?? This makes me ill. Not to mention, nobody will ever get to play another game of Monopoly again, because everyone will be too busy fighting over who gets to be the t-rex until we get old and die. Is this what you all wanted???

Ugh, whatever. Nothing matters.

If you've ever felt like you couldn't relate to the lives of the elite, maybe you just haven't spent enough time learning about Princess Diana. In a letter back to the Royal household while on her honeymoon, she wrote that "the honeymoon was a perfect opportunity to catch up on sleep," The Telegraph reports. The royals, they're just like us!

She wrote the letter while aboard the Royal Yacht Brittania, which honestly sounds like a great place to get some z's in, as boats are very boring and there's not much to do on them except eat, sleep and do the pose from Titanic off the bow. And you gotta respect a woman who prioritizes getting those requisite eight hours of shut-eye in. That's self care at it's finest. As things unfortunately did not work out with Prince Charles (the two separated 11 years later in 1991, and then divorced in 1996), I'm glad she was at least looking after herself and getting some rest while on that godforsaken boat.

The letter was addressed to her personal secretary, Jane Parsons, who I like to imagine was a close gal pal of the princess, and was one of 25 correspondences, all of which are auctioned set to be auctioned off next month in Gloucestershire. Other letters further enforce that Princess Diana was a lovely person. She wrote letters to "everyone in the office" thanking them for her 21st birthday present, as well as offering her sincere "gratitude at having such a wonderful collection of people looking after us." After she had her first baby, she wrote to the staff saying that she hoped they were not "exhausted, overworked and underpaid." What a gem. Hopefully more sweet anecdotes will be revealed as the letters are sifted through.

Just in case you were worried that not everyone with the last name "Trump" was making an easy buck off the worst presidential administration in living memory, Donald Trump's first wife Ivana is publishing a memoir of motherhood.

The book, titled Raising Trump, will be about the three children Ivana had with Trump before he had an affair with soon-to-be-second-wife Marla Maples and divorced her—Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka. Presumably, it will explain how the two boys wore diapers well into their teens and how Ivanka's name was actually the result of a typo. Gallery Books will publish this garbage on Sept. 12.

"As her former husband takes his place as the 45th president of the United States, his children have also been thrust into the media spotlight," reads a statement from the publisher to the Associated Press, "but it is Ivana who raised them and proudly instilled in them what she believes to be the most important life lessons: loyalty, honesty, integrity and drive." LOL, okay, whatever you say.

It's unlikely that the book will be at all critical of the president, seeing as he already sued his ex-wife in 1992 for writing a novel that he said violated the non-disclosure agreement she had to sign after they split. Instead, it will be "a response to compliments she receives about her children." Hard to imagine anyone having a nice thing to say about those monsters, but I guess it happens.

Can't wait to see if this book is more successful than Ivana's wine business, which seems like it fell off about five years ago, when she last tweeted:

Is there anything this family can't botch? They're truly an inspiration.

Many of us tend to think of corny jokes as a dad's job, but Tina Lawson, a.k.a. Tina Knowles, mother to Solange and Beyoncé, has a real gift for it. A gift that she demonstrates in her Instagram videos rather often.

We know for a fact that her husband, Richard Lawson, is not into these jokes. In fact, Tina usually comments that he's "hating" on her sense of humor.

Fair enough—if you're married to someone, you're allowed to tell them their jokes are bad. But more recently, it seems Beyoncé herself was hating.

"You know, Beyoncé was telling me the other day that I shouldn't do corny jokes all the time," Tina explained in a recent video. "But I told her, when you get to my age, you gotta find your light. So if you find some good light, you're supposed to take advantage of it." She then proceeded to tell another corny joke.

Even Beyoncé's fans couldn't stand for such disrespect.

Well, don't worry. It doesn't seem Tina's gonna run out of groaners anytime soon.

Keep on cornin' on, Mama.

It's fine to open up on Facebook—even about weird stuff. For better or for worse, that's where a lot of friendships exist now, and so it's only natural that we'd reach out to the people we love and care about on that platform.

Still, if you find yourself posting multiple updates about your sex doll over the course of a single day, maybe take a deep breath and reconsider. Sure, you may feel in control of the narrative at any given moment, but to everyone else, it looks like you're in the middle of a horny nervous breakdown.

A wild ride? This was life-changing. I have to go back and take it all in again.

Receiving a sex doll as a "compliment," trying to sell the sex doll's skeleton for meth money, admitting that you tore the sex doll's vagina while having sex with it... this story has everything. If only Chekhov were alive to read it.

As if he could get any grosser, Paul Ryan discussed his fantasy about cutting Medicaid as if it were a lofty career aspiration at an event hosted by conservative magazine National Review on Friday, Voxreports.

"We’ve been dreaming of this since I’ve been around," Ryan said to the magazine's editor Rich Lowry, of the unbelievable opportunity they currently have for cutting a social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources." He then went on to further confirm just how much of a frat bro he was during college by clarifying with, "since you and I were drinking out of kegs." Wow, Paul Ryan drank out of kegs? Very cool. Very relatable. Not. I think if I overheard that conversation as I walked over to a keg during college I would have promptly screamed and left.

Other things Paul Ryan has been trying to make cool since he was sipping out of solo cups include: the idea that social programs hurt people instead of helping them. In a 2014 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Ryan warned his listeners of the dangers of social assistance programs, because it makes joblessness too comfortable.

"The left thinks this is a good thing. They say, ‘hey, this is a new freedom — the freedom not to work.’” But they’re “making a big mistake here. What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul."

Sorry, Paul Ryan, but who are you to talk about empty souls? The American Health Care Act (that's TrumpCare) would make Medicaid cuts that cost 14 million people their healthcare coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It would also make the quality of healthcare offered by Medicaid worse, Vox adds, as it would limit the per capita spending on the millions that do rely on Medicaid. Just your daily reminder that very wealthy and self-interested people are currently running the country.

Love her or hate her, you've got to admit that there's never a dull moment with top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway. Whether she's talking about microwaves spying on you or fabricating events of mass violence, you can always count on her to be as unhinged and absurd as the man who hired her to get him elected.

And it turns out that even a humanizing profile of Conway in New York this month doesn't skimp on the details of her enduring weirdness. In particular, people were fixated on an account of how she conducted herself at a fancy Washington, D.C. restaurant in the presence of the reporter writing about her.

Conway was definitely enjoying herself at Lupo Verde, an Italian restaurant on 14th and T, where she and Cypher found their way to a table I was sharing with a friend and sat down across from us. I’d invited Conway on a whim and didn’t expect her to show, so by the time she arrived with her entourage, the entrée we had ordered to share, a steak, was sitting on the table. Conway gestured to the plate and asked if she could have some. “Sure,” we said, “of course.” She then reached her hand across the table and, rather than the steak, picked up the roughly seven-inch-long decorative scallion resting on top. Then she tilted her head back and put it in her mouth, like a sword swallower on Coney Island or a snake eating a mouse. About ten minutes later she remarked that she thought it was a piece of asparagus.

What in the world... how do you... why would she... WHAT?

Maybe this is just because she hadn't had a full night's sleep in the past nine months. Maybe she'd never seen a vegetable before. Or maybe she's from a different planet. In any case, she's basically in charge of the country. Wheeee!

After winning "Man of the Match" by scoring two goals in a hard-fought game between the Free State Stars and Ajax Cape Town, Ghanaian soccer player Mohammed Anas was on top of the world. And then it all came crashing down.

During an interview following the match, Anas was full of gratitude and wanted to shout out everyone who supported him. "Firstly I appreciate my fans," he said, and "my wife and my girlfriend." Realizing too late what had just come out of his mouth, he laughed nervously and tried to backpedal. "I’m so sorry, my wife! I love you so much from my heart." Watch the awkward clip and try not to cringe:

In fairness, perhaps it was an honest mistake. But the panic was real:

Oh, buddy. Good luck explaining this one—you'll be lucky if either lady lets you sleep on the couch this weekend.

On March 18, the New York Times published a profile on Donald Trump Jr. titled "Donald Trump Jr. Is His Own Kind of Trump." It featured a large image of Don Jr. sitting on a stump in the woods in solitude, looking off in supposed contemplation.

"He is a skilled outdoorsman and a member of the National Rifle Association who owns dozens of firearms," the profile reads. If there's one thing the profiles wants you to understand about Don Jr., it's that he loves the woods. "If I could miracle myself away," said the man who has been lambasted for photos of him killing elephants for sport in Africa, "I would live out West."

Well, naturally the internet had no choice but to turn this photo of Don Jr. into a meme. They practically handed it to us on a silver platter! Here are the funniest memes of Donald Trump Jr. sitting on a stump alone in the woods.

During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," comedian and actor Tim Allen said that being conservative in Hollywood was a lot like living in Germany during the 1930's, Time reports.

"You’ve gotta be real careful around here," he said, acknowledging his own sheepishness to admit that he attended the inauguration. "You get beat up if don’t believe what everybody believes. This is like ’30s Germany. I don’t know what happened. If you’re not part of the group, 'you know what we believe is right,' I go, 'Well, I might have a problem with that.'"

So, in this analogy, as an outsider is Allen saying that he's a persecuted Jew and liberals are Nazis because they're the prevailing majority in Hollywood? Because that is a pretty bad analogy considering that the right harbors a faction of actual Nazis (the Alt Right). Additionally, throwing around references to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust should be avoided for the most part, especially when you're a rich person living in Hollywood.

His defensiveness cropped up after giving a meandering answer to whether or not he attended the inauguration. "I was invited, we did a VIP thing for the vets, and went to a veterans ball, so I went to go see Democrats and Republicans," he said, before finally adding, "yeah I went to the inauguration." Well, if you're really ashamed to admit something, maybe that's a sign that what you did was a less-than-honorable thing.

Allen currently plays an outspoken conservative on the sitcom "Last Man Standing" and is generally comfortable admitting his right-wing political leanings. But when talking with Kimmel, he seemed a bit nervous and defensive. "I'm not attacking you," Kimmel said, laughing at Allen's long-winded explanation.

"I'm a comedian, I like going on both sides," said Allen. But it sounds like he's already determined which side he's on. You can watch the clip here:

Call off the women's magazines, women-only spaces, and organizations that support women, for the fight for feminism is over. We got a lady on the crossing light now!

An Australian lobby group called Committee for Melbourne has installed ten entire crossing lights in Melbourne that feature the silhouette of a lady (you can tell it's a lady because she's in a dress, something all women identify with, obviously). CEO of the group Martine Lett explained to ITV why they specifically targeted traffic lights when deciding to rise up and obliterate the inequality faced by women around the globe: "There was unconscious bias built into our brains because we are accustomed to seeing a male figure." Here I was thinking that I wanted to read more books by women, or watch more movies that pass the Bechdel test, or see women in prominent job roles across all industries (like President of the US, for example), when really, all I needed was for a lady to let me know I could cross the street.

"If we see more female figures on traffic lights that might also have a positive impact on changing the way we view the world," Lett added.

Sure.

Rejoice, for the fight for equality has been long and tiresome and now we can finally rest.

Mulan is the next Disney movie in line to get the live-action treatment, but the new version probably won't include everyone's favorite part of the movie: the very badass "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" song and montage. That's because the director, Niki Caro, doesn't plan to include any songs in the updated movie. In an interview with Moviefone she confirmed this update, saying "from what I understand, no songs right now, much to the horror of my children."

Beauty and the Beast, the entertainment giant's most recent live-action remake which premiered on March 16, is a full-fledged musical, but io9 points out that the Cinderella remake from a few years ago didn't include any songs, so this decision isn't entirely earth-shattering. And while this could still change, maybe it's best to not get our hopes up. For now, just pour one out and add this track to your gym playlist:

With the news that rock legend Chuck Berry died yesterday at the age of 90, the internet has been reflecting on his contributions to American music. One such reflection came in the form of a letter that Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan (his wife and co-creator of Cosmos) sent to Berry on his birthday back in 1986.

In the letter, Sagan and Druyan wish Berry a happy birthday and reflect on the fact that a phonograph record of Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' had been placed aboard the Voyager spacecraft when it launched in 1977, as part of the Voyager Golden Records project. "When they tell you your music will live forever, you can usually be sure they're exaggerating," the couple begins. "But Johnny B. Goode is on the Voyager interstellar records attached to NASA's Voyager spacecraft -- now two billion miles from Earth and bound for the stars. These records will last a billion years or more."

The project's aim was to "represent the diversity of Earth's life and culture," The Independent reports, and at the time Berry's record inclusion was a controversial choice that was called "adolescent" amongst other more conservative choices like Bach and Beethoven. Sagan and Druyan's warm words of admiration for Berry's work highlight his important place in the American music canon, and are a great reflection on the long-lasting impression he'll leave behind, now that he's gone.

Other rock greats reflected on Berry's amazing contributions to rock 'n' roll too:

It's a good day to throw on a Chuck Berry record and honor a great rocker.

The internet is completely flipping out over this giant, nightmare-inducing chicken.

Just when you think there can't be any more chicken coming out of that coop, MORE CHICKEN COMES OUT OF THAT COOP. Plus, you get the regular sized chicken for scale. Terrifying, right? Well, the internet sure thinks so.

This bird/Muppet hybrid is actually a Brahma, a large breed of chicken developed in the United States. According to The Livestock Conservancy, these chickens can weigh anywhere from 13-18lbs. That's a lot of nuggets.

In a nutshell, here is the consensus on the giant chicken:

YouTube is censoring LGBTQ+ content under "Restricted Mode"—a setting aimed at filtering out offensive content. According to Teen Vogue, the filtration mechanism is supposedly meant to "use community flagging, age-restrictions, and other signals to identify and filter out potentially inappropriate content," which is why so many are wondering why videos from LGBTQ creators are being marked as "offensive" and blocked from view.

Amidst the backlash, YouTube released this statement clarifying that not all LGBTQ content is censored, but "videos that discuss more sensitive issues" might not show up under Restricted Mode.

However, many content creators aren't buying it, pointing out that everything from makeup tutorials to coming out stories have been blocked.

Tyler Oakley, one of YouTube's most popular content creators with 8 million subscribers, noted that his video "8 Black LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Who Inspire Me" was deemed inappropriate and blocked under Restricted Mode.

Other LGBTQ+ creators like Kat Blaque, Gigi Gorgeous, Hannah Hart, Eva Gutowski, and Ingrid Nilsen (to name a few stars of YouTube's vast and diverse LGBTQ community), have had huge success on YouTube, and drive millions of viewers to the website each week.

YouTube has told Vloggers and viewers that they will "look into these concerns," but have not indicated that they will be changing their system. Creators urged their fans to continue to support the work of LGBTQ+ YouTubers by subscribing and sharing their videos.

A cyst is like a fine wine—it just gets better with age. So when this patient, CJ, brought her 20-year-old cyst to Dr. John Gilmore, he knew that he had found something special. And indeed, once he cut through the scar tissue, he found a cyst with a unique texture we've never quite seen before. It was breathtaking.

Skip to 4:00 to see it blow.

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEjc25PHfI

A Tennesee woman named Deshania Ferguson posted a picture on Facebook of a sign that pissed her off in a nail salon. The sign read, "Sorry, but if you are overweight, pedicures will be $45 due to service fees for pedicurists. Thank you!" [Uh, you're welcome, I guess?]

Along with the picture Deshania Ferguson wrote, "Went to get my nails done on Overton Crossing and Frayser Blvd and this is what they have up…so rude," followed by a bunch of angry face emojis.

Who even determines who's "overweight"? It's such an arbitrary judgment! Is the salon planning on figuring out the BMIs of its customers?

Anyway, angry face emojis doesn't begin to cover the internet's reaction over the extra charge.

Local news station WREG went to the salon, but the sign had reportedly already been taken down. The owner of the nail salon, Son Nguyen, denied that the Facebook picture had been taken in his salon, even though the walls and floor allegedly matched, saying "[the salon in the photograph] could be anywhere."

Nguyen did say, however, that he denies service to anyone "severely overweight," citing the extra work for the manicurists and damage to his chairs. He admits that customers have gotten upset with him over his policy. Really, you don't say.