Now that some small corners of the fashion world have woken up to the existence of women beyond size 4, non-chiseled guys are getting thrown a bone, too. According to Women's Wear Daily, well-known agency IMG Models has opened a plus-size division for men. And they're calling the division "Brawn." As company president Ivan Bart said, "Brawn has a body positive message. Brawn is physical strength." Brawn reminds you of paper towels, and there's nothing sexier than a good clean-up.

So far the agency has one entire model (gotta start somewhere). His name is Zach Miko, and he—is—brawn. (As well as blonde and white, but you can't take down every barrier at once.)

You may recognize the comedian/actor/model from his fall Target campaign, where he first gained widespread attention with his 6'6" frame and 40-inch waist. 

You may also recognize him from your dreams.

“I mean, I’m just an everyday guy,” Miko told Vogue. “I bartend, I do freelance carpentry, I’m an Eagle Scout, I have bills.” Okay, stop. Everyone gets it. You're attractive, Miko. 

"I want Brawn to relate to every man who wants to feel good about their self-esteem and self-image," Miko said. It's easy to forget that men have feelings and self-esteem, too, but word on the street is that they have both those things.

With IMG's major move and attempt at rebranding plus-size men with the term "Brawn," it makes you wonder if women's plus-size divisions will get cool names in the future. Something that sounds better than "Plus-Size" like "Fierce" or, if they dare, just "Women."

Racism, sexism, and discrimination are all too common in the workplace, but they're especially rampant in the high-stakes, highfalutin world of tech. Amélie Lamont is a product designer who used to work at Squarespace, the website-builder that has sponsored many a podcast, and her story of facing discrimination at the company recently went viral. 

"As a young black woman in the tech industry, by virtue of my existence, I am bound to face discrimination. I’ve wanted to share this story for 2 years, but I’ve been scared," she wrote on Medium, "I recently decided that speaking up is far more important than remaining silent."

Her essay is powerfully titled "Not a Black Chair." The most chilling part takes place at a weekly supervisor's meeting with the VP of customer care:

She stared at me for a few seconds and remarked, “Oh. I didn’t see you. You blended in. You’re so black, you blend into the chair.” I didn’t believe what I was hearing and I didn’t know what to do. I looked at my arm, compared it to the chair in front of her.

“Nope, my arm is brown and the chair is black,” I quipped awkwardly.

She replied, “No. They’re the same color.”

The room was silent.

She reported the incident to HR, where she was told “Maybe she was talking about your shirt," (the shirt she was wearing was blue) or just being "sensitive" (she wasn't).

Even when she was given a team to lead, she was undermined:

Instead of running it on my own, as was the privilege given to all other supervisors, I was to lead with a coworker who was not a supervisor. This was further proof of my consistent devaluation within Squarespace.

Lamont was ultimately fired after she slapped a coworker who touched her at a bar and filed a lawsuit that was dismissed. But she is telling her story, writing, "this is no longer about me":

The racism I experienced at Squarespace was overt and documented. There’s no way to sugarcoat, “you’re so black, you blend into the chair.” I even tried to redeem the situation by giving the VP of Customer Care a chance to backpedal. She chose not to.

I keep thinking about people of color and women who have had similar experiences. If I don’t say something, I’m only hurting myself and allowing one more company to get away with seemingly condoned acts of egregiousness.

She has inspired more women and people of color to speak up. Stephanie Dünx shared her story in a Medium piece of her own:

Fun fact: there is not a single black employee currently at the Squarespace office in Portland. Out of over 150. When I brought this to their attention and asked for more diversified recruiting efforts they basically blamed it on the demographics of Portland. Being the type of person I am, I came prepared with stats. I told them that if Portland is 6.3% black then there should be at least 10 black people there based on the demographics, instead of the two there were at the time. Of course the response to this was some mess about preserving the culture (their go-to deflection/response for just about any concern brought up). It took everything within my power not to say “So…you’re telling me you’re more interested in propping up a culture that’s exclusionary to black people than actually changing that culture to be more inclusive.” Of course I didn’t say this b/c I did not want to get fired. I (as black people who voice concerns in tech companies often are) was already on thin ice and was trying not to get in more trouble.

You can read Lamont's full piece here.

In a post on Wednesday, Reddit user vocivus claimed his grandma thought a very, very old jawbreaker was a piece of “decorative rock.” Unfortunately, there are no photos of the user or his grandma, but he did share photos of the jumbo-sized hard candy, which certainly looks like some sort of antique decoration.

A few on the Reddit thread, like ThirdRook, pointed out that old jawbreakers are probably even more difficult to eat and might turn into “solid crystal." But it still seems slightly strange that his grandma would mistake the classic sugar ball for an interior decor piece.

Other users were perplexed that the candy, which was probably left on top of a dusty display shelf panty, wasn’t eaten away by ants.

Some Redditors also used the jawbreaker as an opportunity to engage in tNSFW conversations, because Reddit.

Others didn’t believe it was an actual jawbreaker, so vocivus placed the jawbreaker next to a banana to try and show that it was the real thing.

Will vocivus find it in his heart to tell his grandma that her “decorative rock” is actually food? If his grandma is like this grandma, she wouldn’t be heartbroken about it.

A mom called out her son for being a bully in a public post on Facebook, and it ended up going viral, with over 50,000 likes and 11,000 shares—but many people questioned whether or not this was the right punishment to give to her son, and some even wondered if this post potentially put her son in harm's way. Here is that post:

It reads:

Absolutely disgusted that my 12 year old son saw fit to purposefully tread on a new girls foot at school and twist his foot with such force it broke her brand new shoes (causing the heel) to snap.

I’ll tell you something Jacob ( JustPost Rng Photos) if you so much as breath in her or anyone’s direction in a bullying manner I will personally hand you over to their parents for every demeaning chore they see fit for as long as they do… kiss goodbye to your birthday money as you will be buying the girl a new pair of shoes and a bunch of flowers! ‪#‎iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse‬

After the post went viral, some commenters called the post "dangerous" and said that it could potentially follow her young son for the rest of his life. "Why extend the humiliation?" one person said on Facebook. "Your poor son. This will haunt him forever. A mistake at 12, online now for all to see."

In response, the mom edited the post to read:

Update. To answer a few questions, yes my son can see it, he was tagged in it before it went viral(which I didn’t realise was going to happen) so his friends could see that his actions have consequences, he is not big, clever, hard or funny, he’s a 12 year old boy answerable to his mam

I don’t much care who doesn’t agree with my parenting style, my son humiliated and embarrassed a girl, regardless of his reasoning (which was he didn’t expect to break the shoe he just thought she may step out of it or stumble) that little girl still cried, for anyone’s knowledge that girl may have left her old school because she was being bullied… then imagine how much worse my son’s ridiculous act would have made her feel.

So my so called embarrassing him online is a to be quite frankly nothing in comparison to the humiliation that little girl had to face walking round with a broken shoe and red eyes from crying when she is new.

Ps… of course I sat and spoke to him about his behaviour, I didn’t just tag him in a post and he read it! I am wholly confident this was a single occurrence which won’t be repeated.

The mother later set the post to private, telling one news outlet (which is not linked to here in an admittedly hopeless attempt to keep the minors in this story anonymous) that her intention was for her son's friends to see it, not the whole world. Something to think about before setting your ~epic takedown~ posts to public.

Prince William has been receiving flack for the lack of time he's been putting into his full-time pilot job with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, an emergency medical service dispatch for the people of East Anglia.

Pundits are calling him "work-shy" for the 20 hours he flies a week, which People confirmed is about two thirds as much as the other EAAA pilots. But even so, the royal daddy shrugged off the criticism as "part of the job" in an interview with ITV, citing his other commitments, like helping species endangered by the illegal ivory trade, as worth the media bashing.

I didn’t want to get to 45 or 50 and sit back and say I could have said something about that issue but I didn’t because I worried about what people thought or what people said.

Plus, with so many royal engagements to carry out, he's plenty busy, not a slacker. What critics argue is it's telling of his work ethic that last year he carried out 128 fewer royal engagements than his 94-year-old grandfather, Prince Philip. Doesn't it bother him to be called a "big soft lad of a son" by Daily Mirror columnists? The Duke of Cambridge told ITV: 

It’s part of the job Mark. Today is more about talking about the poaching crisis. And I want to turn round and turn to my children and my friends and talk to other people my age and having known we have truly made a difference, we have fixed something, we have given hope to the future. And that should give everybody a lift and realize there is hope that we can fix stuff.

"There is hope that we can fix stuff."

"There is hope that we can fix stuff."

"There is hope that we can fix stuff."

A true king in the making.

Here's Prince William landing a helicopter on water, presumably on purpose.

Jason Thompson, a Toronto man with albinism, was riding the bus with his young son when the driver pulled over. As Thompson would soon learn, someone had called the police to report a possible abduction, assuming that something was amiss after seeing the albino Thompson with his decidedly not-albino son.

The cops boarded the bus and asked Thompson to get out. "'Sir is this your son?'" said the policeman, according to Thompson. "I said 'Yes, he is.'" 

The officers quickly realized that Thompson was not holding his son, Xavier, (again, his own son) against his will. 

"I was gobsmacked at that moment. I couldn't believe it. I probably almost fell down," said Thompson, who then explained that he now finally understands racism.

Thompson told CTV News: "They're black so people think they've done something wrong. And here's a very white guy who gets pulled over because he has a kid who's beige or brown. So it was really surprising and shocking to me."

Of all the indignities that come from riding the bus, including but not limited to: loud music, screaming babies, heavy breathing, toenail clipping, and playing loudly with a Bop It, this is probably the worst.

But at least it taught a white man about microaggressions. 

What happens when you take Harry Potter actress Emma Watson and Hamilton creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda and mix in feminism and hip-hop? Obviously, a freestyle rap about gender equality, made for "HeForShe," a gender equality campaign that Watson helps to promote. Watson also (reluctantly) provides the beatboxing for the rap, which she is not great at. But she's just so damn charming, you'll certainly forgive her. 

But wait, there's more! Watson also took this opportunity to sort our founding fathers into their respective Hogwarts houses. It's a damn dream come true for nerds everywhere:

Apparently when Lin-Manuel isn't rapping with the President and Emma Watson is not busy being a UN Ambassador, they enjoy discussing not just feminism, but also memes and puppies. Yes, it is as good as it sounds. You can watch the entire video below.

A Tumblr user noticed a note posted on her college campus bemoaning girls who don't give "good guys a chance," and it was understandably annoying to her and every woman who has had to deal with a man asking for a pat on the back for doing basic human things. The letter this anonymous bro wrote went viral when Twitter user @mitchberghini picked it up:

It reads:

OK, ladies. 
I get it.
You don’t want a pleasant evening chat.
You don’t want a gentleman to walk you to your car.
You don’t want a friendly dude to help you carry your groceries… or hold open the door… or crush the life out of other men that would do you harm.
Fine - fear the good guys… I guess we’ll have to just suffer through watching you get broken over and over by the scum you think you love.
But I want you to know – it’s not easy and it hurts to see you fall.
Give the good guys a chance to help you be less afraid of the world.

But his tweet doesn't include the Tumblr user's awesome response. The young student, who only gave her name as Meghan to BuzzFeed when they reached out to her for an interview, began taping up her own letter to this "nice guy."

Her response reads:

If you're watching some girl you like getting hurt by another guy STOP WHINING ABOUT IT AND DO SOMETHING. Don't leave some anonymous note on a dorm wall. If you know someone is being hurt DO. SOME. THING.

If you want to play the "good guy" you need to rethink your intentions. If you're only doing it for gratification, then you aren't being the good guy. Did Batman give up on Gotham because people weren't thanking him for saving the city?

You know what I really want? I want respect. 

I want people to respect that I'd rather not walk with a stranger in the middle of the night. I want people to respect that I can defend myself. I want people to respect that WOMEN CAN DO THINGS WITHOUT A GENTLEMAN TO HELP.

You want to be a gentleman and a good guy? Start with changing the way you and other men see women. We aren't fragile things you need to defend. We're people. Keep holding doors open, keep being friendly, just don't expect things in return. You aren't owed anything by this world.

If you want to be less afraid of the world, then change the world, don't change us.

Whatever side you take, at least there are flyers on a college campus about something else besides donating your eggs.

For many people, St. Patrick's Day has become an excuse to drink things they wouldn't normally drink, eat things they wouldn't normally eat, and dye things they wouldn't normally dye. (If you want an overview of what St. Patrick's Day is like these days, just listen to this old Irish man's swear-filled summation.) That last part—the dyeing—might not seem like the biggest part of St. Patrick's Day, but it's certainly one of the grossest parts, because green dye pretty much always looks unnatural. Just take a look at these examples of green-dyed horror.

1. This river that has discovered the secret of the ooze.

Just because it's a tradition to dye the Chicago River green doesn't mean it looks pleasant.

2. This fountain that looks like it has a severe algae problem.

3. This popcorn that looks way moldy.

It's probably delicious, but it looks like it belongs in Alexander Fleming's lab.

4. These dogs that are almost certainly plotting their revenge.

Pictured here in a meme that will be relevant for approximately three more hours.

5. This cereal milk that looks like a melted crayon.

6. This river in Florida that proves the state is just one big theme park.

And the theme of that theme park is "ew."

7. These bagels that probably had a batch of highlighters accidentally dropped into the dough.

"No, no, don't throw it out. Just put the dough in the fridge until St. Patty's."

8. This reminder that not only do dyed-green rivers look gross, but in its concentrated state, the dye looks like baby poop.

"Also, don't be shocked if town officials take your baby's diaper and throw it in the river."

9. This green-face prank, and green beards everywhere.

This prank video is used to stand in for green beards so as to not pick on any one man who has dyed his beard green. It's not the beard itself that looks bad, but the effects of it: anybody you kiss is going to have a big green smear on their face. 

10. This green beer, because all green beer looks like carbonated nuclear waste.

Yeah, it tastes good. It's festive. But do not kid yourself into thinking that it looks pleasant.

At a wedding recently, the videographer captured footage of an adorable couple that has been married for 65 years. While there's obviously still a lot of joy and caring in this relationship, the couple revealed that there was one thing that was not there: the "spark." And by the spark, they mean boning:

If you haven't already, make sure to have the spark talk with your kids. 

Rihanna is known for luxuriating in the moment and being awesome at it, so it comes as somewhat of a surprise that she has any regrets in life at all. Though it is quite fitting that her sole regret is not sporting a bedazzled thong.

While speaking with Vogue—for her fourth cover, according to People—Rihanna discussed that super gorgeous and super revealing dress she wore to the 2014 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) awards. Riri didn't think poorly about exposing her body to the world in the sheath designed by Adam Selman. She just wished she had spiced it up even more with a bedazzled thong.

Because that's what this dress was missing. A bedazzled thong.

"I just liked it better without the lines underneath," Rihanna said. "Could you imagine the CFDA dress with a bra? I would slice my throat. I already wanted to, for wearing a thong that wasn’t bedazzled. That’s the only regret I have in my life.”

When her Vogue interviewer Abby Agquirre clarified that Rihanna's greatest regret was not wearing a bedazzled thong, Rihanna firmly stated, “To the CFDA Awards. Yes.”

Rihanna was, in fact, wearing a thong when she received the Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

It simply wasn't bedazzled. 

In all honesty, a bedazzled thong may have been overkill.

Then again, Rihanna has never been known to do anything halfheartedly, so maybe everyone should regret she didn't wear a bedazzled thong. For the sake of the Rihanna image. And because the red carpet missed out on a bedazzled thong.

During her concert Thursday in Brisbane, Australia, Madonna brought a few fans onstage, and one lucky gal got singled out for some probably completely unwanted special treatment. In the midst of telling the audience, "She's the kind of girl you just want to slap on the ass, and pull," Madonna yanked at the fan's strapless top, which came down, revealing one of the fan's boobs to everyone in the audience, and thanks to the power of the Internet, basically everyone in the world.

Madonna did appear genuinely surprised that she'd pulled the top down, though (as did the fan), immediately saying, "Oh shit! I am so sorry," she said, hugging the fan, "Sexual harassment. You can do the same to me, good luck."

Well, at least now people aren't talking so much about her custody battle for her son Rocco or her showing up two hours late to her own show.

Mary Thorn of Lakeland, Florida, is fighting to keep her pet alligator, Rambo, even though Florida Fish and Wildlife law say he's too big to live with her. Rambo is housebroken, has his own bedroom, wears clothes, and rides in a sidecar on her motorcycle. According to People, Rambo and Thorn have been "inseparable" for 11 years. Thorn, who lost her son last year, told the Orlando Sentinel: “Without him, I don’t feel like even wanting to go on."

Thorn has kept Rambo legally since he was four-years-old thanks to a valid permit. But, now that Rambo is six feet long, he's required by law to live on at least 2.5 acres of land, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife.

Before he came to live with her, Rambo lived in a dark closet with a few other alligators. He's got a sunlight sensitivity (Thorn has a letter from her veterinarian corroborating this), and needs to wear sunscreen if he's outside for any length of time.

Naturally, Thorn is worried about what will happen to her beloved Rambo if he can't live with her anymore. Her friends and Rambo's fans have started a petition to the FWC asking that they make an exception for this exceptional alligator, and Thorn is also looking into getting Rambo certified as a therapy alligator. 

Obviously, that would increase stress for strangers, but that's because they don't know Rambo.

Ariana Grande's Saturday Night Livehosting gig was an impressive parade of impressions. But in a sketch cut-for-time, or perhaps cut-for-too-trippy-a-premise, Grande further showed off her impressions—with one of Judy Garland. She proceeded to answer the question nobody was thinking, "What if Judy Garland was a space captain who had to sing to soothe the aliens?" 

Forget your troubles. Come on, get happy. 

If you want a more modern impression, Grande's Whitney Houston reminded people that she was actually talented and not just a human ponytail, and her Celine Dion cracked Celine up to the point of peeing herself.