FROM BUMP TO BUZZ" PREGNANCY TIME-LAPSE VIDEO WILL MELT YOUR HEART
Over the year, the Internet sure has had its share of time-lapse videos showing a woman’s growing belly. And then, like clockwork, she leaves the room and returns with a swaddling infant. It’s adorable. We may shed some happy tears or excuse ourselves and seek refuge in the bathroom to ugly-cry for a hot second. While Tom Fletcher’s ”From Bump To Buzz” YouTube video is very similar to these frequently-posted clips, his birth announcement is extra adorable.
Fletcher, of the English pop band McFly, and his wife Giovanna are shown in the video standing and facing each other. While Giovanna’s stomach grows with each passing second, Fletcher sings “Something New,” an original tune the expectant dad put together for the occasion.
“We took photos every day through the 9 months of our pregnancy, this is the result,” Fletcher explained in the video description. The black-and-white birth announcement of the couple’s son, Buzz Michangelo, doesn’t skip a beat as Giovanna’s body changes before the viewer’s eyes. Fletcher certainly has some vocal chops with his sweet acoustic track, allowing a collective swoon from admirers everywhere.
So, if you happen to be expecting and want to share you’re soon-to-be bundle of joy, take a page out of the Fletchers’ book. The results will surely be precious.
Fletcher, of the English pop band McFly, and his wife Giovanna are shown in the video standing and facing each other. While Giovanna’s stomach grows with each passing second, Fletcher sings “Something New,” an original tune the expectant dad put together for the occasion.
“We took photos every day through the 9 months of our pregnancy, this is the result,” Fletcher explained in the video description. The black-and-white birth announcement of the couple’s son, Buzz Michangelo, doesn’t skip a beat as Giovanna’s body changes before the viewer’s eyes. Fletcher certainly has some vocal chops with his sweet acoustic track, allowing a collective swoon from admirers everywhere.
So, if you happen to be expecting and want to share you’re soon-to-be bundle of joy, take a page out of the Fletchers’ book. The results will surely be precious.
7 Damaging Lies We Teach Boys About How to Become a Real Man
Many of the conventional lessons we teach our boys about being men are based on traditional wisdom that encourages young men to embrace violent behavior and stifle emotions. Boys that act outside of the masculinity box we've constructed for them — by expressing fear or insecurty, by eating vegan, by drinking juice instead of beer, by pursuing stereotypically "feminine" interests — are told to "be a man." This narrowed range of acceptable actions, behaviors and interests can make our boys more prone to practicing violence against women, to developing unhealthy habits like binge-drinking and to having emotional issues later in life, among other problems.
So why do we perpetuate these myths? Our society's "real men" should be physically and emotionally healthy and allowed to pursue their true interests, even if those interests don't conform to traditional masculine values.
Here are some of the lies we teach our boys about manning up:
In the movie The World's End, Nick Frost's character resists peer pressure to chug pints of beer, pointing out, "Ordering water in a pub full of rugby lads takes balls." He has a point. For many male adolescents in America, teetotaling or even just drinking in moderation does "take balls" because it counters the tradition that drinking to excess is a right of passage. This is unfortunate, of course, because young men are statistically more likely to binge drink, more likely to commit sexual assault once intoxicated and twice as likely to die from alcohol-related issues as women. Increased health risks and sexual assault? What's not to like.
So why do we perpetuate these myths? Our society's "real men" should be physically and emotionally healthy and allowed to pursue their true interests, even if those interests don't conform to traditional masculine values.
Here are some of the lies we teach our boys about manning up:
In the movie The World's End, Nick Frost's character resists peer pressure to chug pints of beer, pointing out, "Ordering water in a pub full of rugby lads takes balls." He has a point. For many male adolescents in America, teetotaling or even just drinking in moderation does "take balls" because it counters the tradition that drinking to excess is a right of passage. This is unfortunate, of course, because young men are statistically more likely to binge drink, more likely to commit sexual assault once intoxicated and twice as likely to die from alcohol-related issues as women. Increased health risks and sexual assault? What's not to like.
Yoga Pants Prank
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Is it true that straight guys will stare at anything as long as it’s wearing yoga pants? If this video is to be believed, the answer is yes. Youseff Saleh Erakat, who goes by the moniker FouseyTube, pulls the kind of Candid Camera stunts that YouTube seems custom-made to facilitate. It’s mostly a prank — I would argue that YouTube is Punk’d for the Internet generation — but there’s more than a kernel of truth in what Erakat uncovered. Here’s how it went down:
Erakat prefaces the video by explaining, “A friend of mine recently told me that I had no idea how hard it is being a girl, because when she wears leggings, everybody stares at her butt. So today, I’m going to find out exactly how hard it is.” So in the name of science (or, y’know, the name of Ashton Kutcher), he donned a pair of leggings, set up a camera, and set the scene by rummaging around in his car’s trunk or the passenger side door, arse to the wind. He experienced plenty of ogling, and every time he caught someone at it, he’d pop his head up, revealing that he’s a dude, and ask, “Were you staring at my butt?”
Most of the guys he caught were embarrassed, although it’s anyone’s guess as to whether it was because they had been caught staring, or because they had been caught staring at another guy’s butt, or because this guy approached them kinda aggressively and they were caught off guard. Some were grossed out. And perhaps most bizarrely, some were angry, physically going after Erakat in retaliation. The whole thing ended up being as much a comment on homophobia as one on sexism and street harassment.
My favorite reaction is the guy at about the one-minute mark who answers “Yeah” to Erakat’s question. When asked why he was staring, he says, unapologetically, “You have a nice ass!” It’s true that he might just have been playing Erakat at his own game, but the fact that he was able to respond as such gives me hope that everything might not be as dire as it seems. Watch It Here
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Is it true that straight guys will stare at anything as long as it’s wearing yoga pants? If this video is to be believed, the answer is yes. Youseff Saleh Erakat, who goes by the moniker FouseyTube, pulls the kind of Candid Camera stunts that YouTube seems custom-made to facilitate. It’s mostly a prank — I would argue that YouTube is Punk’d for the Internet generation — but there’s more than a kernel of truth in what Erakat uncovered. Here’s how it went down:
Erakat prefaces the video by explaining, “A friend of mine recently told me that I had no idea how hard it is being a girl, because when she wears leggings, everybody stares at her butt. So today, I’m going to find out exactly how hard it is.” So in the name of science (or, y’know, the name of Ashton Kutcher), he donned a pair of leggings, set up a camera, and set the scene by rummaging around in his car’s trunk or the passenger side door, arse to the wind. He experienced plenty of ogling, and every time he caught someone at it, he’d pop his head up, revealing that he’s a dude, and ask, “Were you staring at my butt?”
Most of the guys he caught were embarrassed, although it’s anyone’s guess as to whether it was because they had been caught staring, or because they had been caught staring at another guy’s butt, or because this guy approached them kinda aggressively and they were caught off guard. Some were grossed out. And perhaps most bizarrely, some were angry, physically going after Erakat in retaliation. The whole thing ended up being as much a comment on homophobia as one on sexism and street harassment.
My favorite reaction is the guy at about the one-minute mark who answers “Yeah” to Erakat’s question. When asked why he was staring, he says, unapologetically, “You have a nice ass!” It’s true that he might just have been playing Erakat at his own game, but the fact that he was able to respond as such gives me hope that everything might not be as dire as it seems. Watch It Here
