The levels of petty judgment, speculative presumption, catty comparison and woman-ranking in this post is regrettable and baffling. (Not to mention the tenuous practice of citing gossip mongers as sources...)

Why all of the unsubstatiated guessing (with thinly veiled accusations) about the vastness of things that are…

Bam! Exactly!

When Lindy West asks "Is there responsible way to idolize famous women...?", the answer is "Of course not". I'm gobsmacked as to how anyone who wants to foster growth and positivity in the social and intrapersonal lives of women could find legitimacy in the unjustified adoration of absolute strangers (and…

Actually he's about the same size as last year's Under Armour ad.

I'm just gonna go 'head and say it. This performance was kickass in a way that made Daft Punk's presence (consisting of a synthed vocals on a loop and ____?) just about entirely superfluous. Perhaps the same could be said, to a lesser degree, about the song itself. Though Nile Rodgers gets an afterthought of mention…

It seems to me that one of the underlying questions when it comes to gender analyses of cultural/media productions is what happens to the judgments of a snapshot of male/female interaction, for example, when it forced to carry the burden of representativity or synecdoche for the entire realm of gender(ed) relations?

If…

As soon as I read this piece I thought of

Not above reproach, but subject to taste. Tastes affirmed in the highest realms of literary analysis... A key distinction.

Pointing out the absence of the statement: fine. Substituting your hollow argument for the author's non-statement and then knocking it down: straw man. The argument you inserted about where the…

It is certainly true that not every writing style suits very reader. However, whether it suits you and/or others is a statement of stylistic match/mismatch between author and reader- and perhaps, to some extent, the degree to which readers may be overly rigid in the acceptance & interpretation of writing styles. That…

If the author's style doesn't light you on fire with literary ecstasy, you absolutely have the right to say as much. However, the broader claims that require you to speak for some generalized Reader, put you the position of falsely speaking for other people. In addition, there is a clear contradiction in suggesting…

Not even close. There are chasmic differences between analyses of fact, analyses of argument and analyses of style. Your conflation of these is problematic, as are claims and indictments laid upon such thin foundations of support.

Stylistic choices in narrative arts (cadence, phrasing, etc.), are subjective matters of taste and preference. For example, Toni Morrison's award winning style is as off-putting and difficult to follow for some, as it is radiant and revelatory for others. There's something self-aggrandizing and privilege-oozing about…

It appears to me that each of these two people were enormously happy with their wedding. All of the grousing over it, whether posted here or silently uttered in dark internal spaces, strikes me as horribly sad. It indicts the grousers, their narrow perspectives on how everything from relationships to weddings should…

[In my best generic Southern accent] "This dog won't hunt" because the premise is blatantly false.

Oooh... Good call.

I'm neither a Detroit native nor current resident, but I've spent some time there over the past couple of years. It didn't take long to provoke a gritty, underdog kind of affection from me. I root and ache for it and it's residents every time I'm there, read a story about it, or engage in some consideration,…

While I completely agree with the end goals of sex and gender equality, this seems to fall into the common trap of allowing the power of a desire for a goal to profoundly oversimplify (even figuratively) the problem and thus, overstate the remedy. A strategy of changing gender imbalance by asking grown men who have…

Schwarz' piece in the Atlantic just seems to add another drop the endless stream of mournful epitaphs of Mid-Century myth-as-reality, recently recharged by the mainstream popularity of retro-focus, prominently exemplified by Hipster culture and media products like Mad Men. I'm glad Moore sees right through it with her…

Hmmm... I've never heard of this before and it strikes me as incredibly complex.

I think you touch on an interesting point here. In your original statement it was "lie or be alone forever", which is miles apart from "change or be alone forever". In general I think its a good idea for everyone to remain open to changing for the better... to keep pursuing the best version of ourselves. I think that…