Single woman exposes harsh double-standard with 'self-centered' married friends

“Single women in your life are not just disposable accessories.”

By Tod Perry

Ashanti Bentil-Dhue, a 36-year-old advocate for single women, to keep them “Rooted. Regulated. Resourced,” released a viral TikTok video on November 4 where she points out a double standard she believes exists in friendships between married and single women. Ashanti says single women who are always there for their married friends shouldn't expect the same in return.

“We're meant to support them through all of the life events that they experience: pregnancy, proposals, engagements, destination weddings. But rarely, if ever, do married women really allocate time and investment into their single friends' life events, whether that's a promotion, a career move, a moving home, travelling, any other achievement that isn't related to a man, isn't related to procreation,” Ashanti says.

🎾 11-year-old writes a heartfelt, challenging letter to her gym teacher after getting a 'B' in class

"I told her I’m so proud and to never stop advocating for herself"

By Cecily Knobler

In perhaps a perfect display of one of the many differences between Gen X/boomers and millennials/Gen Z and younger, an 11-year-old took to email to make a plea to her physical education teacher for a better grade.

Her aunt, posting on Threads, shared, "My 11-year-old niece told me she was getting a B in PE and wrote an email to the teacher to dispute it. I told her I’m so proud and to never stop advocating for herself. It’s also very funny! She better change my niece’s grade too."

It’s never too late to learn. 📝

💰 Billionaire Warren Buffett shares the one simple investment 'formula' to make everyday people richer

You don't even need extra money to start.

By Cecily Knobler

For those who haven't heard, Warren Buffett has a lot of money. In fact, according to Forbes, at the ripe old age of 95, his net worth is 160 billion dollars, give or take day-to-day. (Bloomberg's Billionaire Index clocks him at around 150 billion.)

The thing about Buffett is he's also an incredibly generous philanthropist. A large percentage of his wealth has been given, as part of "The Giving Pledge" alongside Bill and Melinda Gates, to charitable organizations. Success Reporter Preston Fore writes for Fortune, "At the time of launch, the trio asked members of the ultra-rich to donate at least 50% of their wealth to charity, and Buffett specifically pledged to donate more than 99% of his wealth to philanthropy during his lifetime or at death."

Fore also notes that Buffett has given a lot. "In total, Buffett’s giving has reached over $60 billion—much of it to the Gates Foundation, which focuses on fighting poverty, disease, and inequity." As time has gone on, Buffett is more focused on leaving his three children money so that they too can invest in people, ideas, and philanthropic organizations to make a difference.

🍰 Comedian Paul F. Tompkins ends the debate over cake vs. pie with one deliciously pure insight

The comedy legend tells Upworthy that some people are taking this way too seriously.

By Cecily Knobler

There are decade-long, even century-long debates, that can divide the most amiable of people. Coke vs. Pepsi. Pizza vs. Hotdogs. The Beatles vs. Third Eye Blind. What, no?

But when it comes to desserts, no one examines a controversial argument better than actor/comedian Paul F. Tompkins. For him, it's cake vs. pie and he looks at it from every single delicious angle.

For some years now, Tompkins's bit have delighted audiences, young and old, pie-hungry or cake-monsters. In a clip from Just for Laughs titled "The Truth Hurts People," he first asks the audience if they prefer cake to pie, by round of applause. Pie seems to get a more enthusiastic response, and Tompkins looks shocked. Laughing and shaking his head, he says, "Oh you pie people. You make me laugh."