It's not an article. It's a category. The category for "American women novelists" is a subcategory of "American novelists", which means all women remain in the higher level category. The purpose of a category is navigation; if you can think of a reason to want to see a list of female American novelists, then its worth…

No, because they'd never find it. Can be like 20-30lbs of material in the digestive tract.

This article doesn't mention the actual names of the women involved? One is my childhood rabbi, Rabbi Susan Silverman, and her daughter Hallel. Susan is comedian Sarah Silverman's older sister.

She's profiting off the suffering she endured as a result of her arrest and subsequent trial. If she's guilty, then profiting in any sense is clearly wrong. If she's innocent, then making money off the book seems perfectly legitimate. Certainly, media firms around the world have made gobs of money on her story for…

So if a bunch of male comedians get together and make a movie, is that sexist?

The court that is allowing the new trial (Court of Cassation) is Italy's highest court. Whatever ruling it supports is the final step.

This was actually explained as the plan of the Italian authorities at the time her appeal of the original conviction was upheld. The Italian justice system allows three rounds of justicing; the trial, the appeal, and if necessary the counter-appeal. The same system is at work for Silvio Berlusconi.

Jezebel has a hard time saying it in today's "WTF" article about a deranged JetBlue passenger. His quote is edited in the headline to avoid including that "offending word."

Doubts on "very strong-minded person."

Nope. "If the message that is received is interpreted as racist, particularly by the people whose images or style is being appropriated, then it is racist." That's bullshit, sorry.

Sounds like a lot of waaah about nothing. I think the link between "cultural appropriation" and racism is a lot more tenuous than you suggest.

Nick Denton: Hey Lindy, post something controversial, crass, and violently dumbed down about the Pope so we can get lots of hits!

It is "sidle up" not "saddle up" to the bar.

Not necessarily. I think it's a pretty gray line, one that "johns" skate across with some regularly.

That'll make things simpler for him when you get divorced, I guess. And since having kids is really just a thing women do by themselves, I don't imagine you'd ask for child support.

Hypocrisy in a religious organization? WHO WOULD EVER THINK IT? But really, the article was prompted by the lady hiring Gloria Allred and suing. You can't sue someone for hypocrisy, so my comment was about the legal argument.

You can see the strange logic, right? The guy wasn't an employee, so he didn't violate an employment contract. She was, she did, she got fired. Based on that alone, and the religious exemption for employment laws, she'll need a sympathetic jury or a settlement offer to win this one.

I don't see how #China is a racial slur. Also, it's not "fictitious Chinese heritage" if she was born in the Republic of China.

This is more like "Harlem at 1.5x"

I declare a winner!