Agree 100%, and I would point to the show Homeland, with Claire Danes, as an example. Thank god the new season started, just as Breaking Bad is ending! Showing her character as a woman in an incredibly tough, male-dominated field, who has to struggle against her psychological weaknesses, and who also makes what some…

I agree about the discovery of liking things you thought you hated when trying to be respectful of loved ones. I think it's the realization that the opinions you form about some things don't necessarily need to take over your life, and the reflection that some things are not as bad as you thought and don't deserve to…

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post. I think it takes tremendous self-awareness and maturity to admit that you don't like some things and own that, rather than to pretend, and as in the situation you found yourself in, resenting the fact that you weren't being honest and weren't actually enjoying yourself.

Lol. I've been following the blog throughout it's run, and just finished up reading the last couple of posts. In the last one, where he gives her the 40 napkin illustrations of things he "likes" about her - is it me or are those 40 things really weird? Like, he listed those things which he actually didn't like…

It is weird, and my personal feelings don't necessarily reflect those of a lot of my classmates. A lot of my classmates came in very confident, managed to have a happy social life, and are equally happy now in their adult lives. And there were many wonderful things about it for me too. I just can't help but wonder…

Question - How do you think you were able to identify that the way some of your friends were treating the girls they were dating was dumb? That says to me that on some fundamental level, you maybe have a different view of women and maybe even a different sense of morality? Where did that come from for you? I think…

I think the problem is there - among groups of men - that maybe they can't always identify what their feelings are (and if they are negative), and they need a space of safety and comfort perhaps found around women, that helps to articulate them?

Not to mention the fact too that at a women's college, even though it's supposed to be all about feminism and sisterhood, there also develops a sense of competition with women over available men. That kind of environment also breeds a lot of unspoken, passive aggressive jealousy among women - amongst each other…

Yeah, I suspect that it's the case that a female presence calms things down a little bit, and brings a different energy to things.

Una, I love you, and I want you to be my friend.

Feedback, I'm so sorry - it sounds like you've had a lot of situational stresses, on top of the personality stresses between you.

Feedback, I wasn't really a fan of the advice of the first response to you, so I wanted to pipe in.

According to her twitter, Plaza said Demi Moore is "the shit."

What if her standing by him, and making him see through his horrible idea to run, when he so clearly lacks the good judgment to be a good leader, IS her way of getting back at him? Like, when he loses the election after all of this, maybe then he will finally realize what a tool he's been?

I just commented along these same lines. I didn't know much about her before all of Weiner's scandals, but she seems like the real star in this relationship, ESPECIALLY professionally. She seems to have WAY more clout than he does. I think she's sort of playing this cool for her own professional ambitions, sort of…

I haven't ever known much about Huma Abedin until all this business with her husband broke, but honestly, in reading the different articles about her, it seems like she is the true rockstar in this relationship, and he is the lame-o, power hungry politician probably riding on HER coat tails.

Despite the looks of the situation at the moment, I actually think she probably sees the long game for herself, and realizes that as long as she keeps going and keeps her mouth relatively shut, she will come out unscathed from this for whatever happens next for her.

And also, what about the idea that the only reason these powerful men become more empathic is not necessarily because they see all women with more empathy, but because as his own child, he still sees that baby girl as an extension of his own ego - i.e. she is "his" in the world, and to act more compassionately to make…

"Women are wonderful, they make us more generous and better people." Except when they are the CEOs, Directors, or generally the person in charge (i.e. calling the shots and telling the men under them what to do) - then they are bitches and psychopaths. And also ugly, don't forget ugly

Agreed! When people say things like this, I'm baffled. You complain, and complain and complain about a corrupt system, but when the opportunity presents itself for you to participate and contribute your own rational voice, you throw it away? How does that solve anything?