Today, there’s an entire industry centered on obtaining – and maintaining – chiseled abs. They’re the subject of books and social media posts, while every action movie star seems to sport them. Pressure is also mounting on women to sport six-pack abs as body ideals for athletic women have evolved. All of this raises the question, when did the six-pack craze start? It may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, a byproduct of the fitness culture boom in the 1970s and 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo reigned, and men’s muscle mags and aerobics took off....

You’re young men now, 26 and 21, and you’re both more perceptive than I ever was, especially when I was your age and older, when I was full of rage, when I went looking to take it out on any man who’d just hurt another man or, especially, a woman. You’ve heard about this time in my own life, and you’ve read it in the book I wrote about growing up in fallen mill towns where this kind of trouble was so very easy to find....

After the little guy hits the ball off the T, his coaches immediately encourage him to “Go, go, go!” to first base. He stumbles around a bit disoriented for a moment, then turns right towards the camera and chucks the bat at full force, seemingly right at whoever is filming. The camera even rocks a little bit at the end of the video, indicating that he hit the cameraman with his bat....

Paloma A perennial favorite, the Paloma is a well balanced refreshing summer cocktail. While some recipes call for a sweet grapefruit soda, we prefer fresh squeezed juice. It’s just better. We also prefer to start with a crisp blanco tequila like Patrón Silver. If the Paloma is not already in your repertoire, make this one first. Ingredients 2oz Patrón Blanco Tequila 2oz Freshly squeezed and strained grapefruit juice1/2oz Freshly squeezed lime juice (juice from half a lime)Dash of simple syrup1-2oz club soda Directions Rim a highball glass with salt, fill with ice....

The upcoming film tells the story of Harvard psychologist Dr. William Marston (Luke Evans) and how his unconventional relationship with two women (Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote) inspired Wonder Woman. Marston’s comic book heroine, which debuted in 1941, was constantly under attack for often featuring sexual undertones and plenty of BDSM that were inappropriate for readers. But he kept the larger secret that he was in a polyamorous relationship. This secret would have ruined his prestigious reputation....

The 10-year national study from researchers at The University of Vermont Gund Institute For Environment found that as Americans increasingly flee areas likely to get hit by hurricanes, they’re relocating to regions plagued by extreme summer heat and some of the greatest wildfire risks in the United States. Thanks to climate change, these heat-related environmental hazards are intensifying, which is especially bleak considering the significant damage they already cause to people and property every year....

When Venus and Serena Williams were just teenagers, they were on the cusp of taking over the world and cementing themselves as two of the best tennis players of all time. But apparently, according to one interviewer at the time, that self-assured confidence was just too much to believe, an unearthed video reveals. The video came up, actually, because people were talking about perceived the lack of protection that Britney Spears’s parents didn’t give her (and arguably still have not) when she was around that age, fielding international attention on her way to becoming one of the most iconic pop stars of the 2000s....

According to the local Fox News affiliate, school officials at Kanesville Elementary say they imposed the very peculiar rule in an effort to teach kids how to be “inclusive.” One mother, however, is voicing serious concerns about the message it sends. Natalie Richard, the mother of a sixth-grade girl who attends the school, said the rule teaches kids wrong lessons about consent and interacting with the opposite sex. After asking a teacher about the rules and whether her daughter had the ability to say “no”, Richard reported that “the teacher said she can’t....

I’m here to remind you that Vans are classics, too. The Old Skool, pictured above, was released 45 years ago as the #36. It has a clean design and Paul Van Doren’s aerodynamic white squiggle on the side. Also: This shoe is durable as hell. Suede and canvas with a reinforced toe cap and that legendary, vulcanized rubber waffle sole. All Vans are amazing, but the availability of this shoe in 16 different colorways, including my favorite, fuschia, lands the Old Skool in our sneaker Hall of Fame....

Debbi Hixon, the wife, and widow of Chris Hixon, a staffer at the school who died saving students from the gunman, was in the video with her son. Biden greeted the victims and turned away to go begin his remarks to survivors of the shootings, including Debbi, when Hixon’s son, Corey, runs to get a hug from Biden. “I’m Chris Hixon’s wife,” she says, as Joe Biden greets her and then begins to turn away....

Right now, in the current COVID-plagued world, we’re all stressed out and seeing a lot more of each other. This gives us an even more zoomed in perspective of what our partners do right, what they do wrong, and what they do that’s fine but just. so. annoying. As knowing is half the battle, we thought we’d ask a dozen women what they wish their husband would do more of right now....

According to the National Retail Federation, millennials are parents to half of today’s children. In 2016 alone, four out of five babies were born to millennial parents. To the extent that many dozens of millions of people have a defining, uniting sense of what it means to be a parent today is, of course, flimsy — but there are legitimate similarities worth exploring. “Teachers kept coming to me and saying, ‘These parents are different....

I cannot overemphasize the degree of to which she completed the project herself, without the slightest whiff of my help or input. She exhumed our original 20-year-old carpet, which by its look appeared to have spent most of its life beneath a carnival. She demolished the former baseboards, in a particularly exciting evening of violent crowbar action. She measured angles, trimmed boards, worked around the fireplace and stairs, made sure the hardwood seams matched....

But it helps to listen to those who’ve been there. So what words of wisdom do experienced dads have to offer about having a second child? According to the 12 dads we asked, there are plenty of things they wished they knew before welcoming their second. Some spoke of the big need for redefining the balance of their life. Others were surprised by how much their capacity for love grew....

But, as with every disappointment, there are important lessons to be learned. And in looking through the rearview, many are able to learn a lot of lessons about love, marriage, the way people evolve over the years, and what mistakes were made. The lessons aren’t always positive, but they aren’t always negative either. To provide some insight, we spoke to 12 men about what they wished they knew before they got divorced....

Rarely, though, is household labor perfectly balanced in a relationship. There may be chores you’re not good at or just don’t want to do, so your partner picks up the slack. To some degree, that’s normal. But if you don’t want to do something so much that you find yourself pretending you’re no good at it — maybe you purposely fold laundry poorly or always “forget” to load the dishwasher the right way — you’re guilty of a phenomenon called weaponized incompetence....

This story was submitted by a Fatherly reader. Opinions expressed in the story do not reflect the opinions of Fatherly as a publication. The fact that we’re printing the story does, however, reflect a belief that it is an interesting and worthwhile read. I’d just come in the house after walking off an anxiety attack to find our 2-year-old, Luke, sitting on the couch munching Goldfish Crackers and watching Hey Duggee....

If nothing else, it’s a reminder of the guileless, fascinating way in which kids view the adult world. One thing it’s not? A benchmark by which parents should measure their own kid’s hopes and dreams. Remember, all these kids will change their minds about their favorite goldfish 6 times by Saturday — the Fatherly Imagination Report will probably look entirely different if we conduct it again next week. The Most Popular Jobs How about a collective “Aaaaww!...

Take Charlie, a father raising two kids in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife, Avery.* His parents are a crucial part of their child-rearing: “I wouldn’t say my mom ‘helps’ in terms of cooking, laundry, or helping with homework, but they stay at her house a lot and she comes to a ton of their events,” he says. But when it comes to his in-laws, it’s a different story entirely. “They’re like absentee grandparents unless we make the effort to go to see them, whereas my mom gets all mad if we forget to tell her the most minor things, like that Sasha has a track meet,” he says....

“People use guilt-tripping when they have a need but don’t have the tools to clearly ask for what they need or want in a healthy way,” says Larissa House, LCSW, a mental health therapist and practice owner of Therapy with Larissa House. “This could be a need for help, a need to be seen or validated, a need to be thanked or appreciated, or a need to rest or take a break....