Man, I cannot WAIT for the reviewers at Amazon.co.uk to get ahold of this.

Good luck! I had a salary conversation today with mine, and was completely honest and upfront about my expectations and feelings. I find, as with most confrontations, if you couch everything in "I" terms, speak about how you feel, and your experience of your value, you can't go wrong! :)

Thanks, that made my day. :)

Amazing what a company with at least 2/3 female executive leadership (and a kickass female CEO) can do. :) I am proud of us as well.

I view nice as an artificial social construct; kind is its counterpart in sincerity. Niceness is a way of acting; kindness a way of being. And niceness as a concept is something that is far more expected of women than men, especially in business settings. I do not mean "nice" to mean pushover, I mean nice in that way…

I am not a crier, in general. That said, I have two triggers: things that remind me of my late father (and those have lessened over the last decade) and anything to do with dogs. I have very little control over my tear ducts if I hear a particular song from my childhood or if I read a story/watch a video about a dog's…

"Part of what holds us back, Sandberg says, is the importance people place on women being nice. We're guilty of it, ourselves. We want to be liked."

Clearly a typo, and SaitoHawkeye is decidedly correct. Anyone taking writing pointers from a woman who has no grasp of grammar, dialogue or how to write sexy sex scenes, and who basically cribs her plot and characters from another author, deserves everything she gets.

I haven't read it, actually. I refused to give EL James the money. I read Jennifer Armintrout's dissection of it, and Katrina Lumsden's, as well as many more pieces of criticism. Which is all I needed to do in order to understand how truly awful that book is- both as a piece of literature and culturally for all its…

OMG, this has to be a joke. Please tell me this is a fucking joke. This woman CANNOT. WRITE. 50SOG is the most execrable piece of misogynist garbage to hit mainstream in decades. The sex is dull and repetitive. And it's fucking FAN FICTION! The plot and characters are cribbed from Stephanie Meyer! I can name easily 50…

It is hardly news that they are using this defense. Slut-shaming by rapists' defense attorneys is simply what's done. What will be news is if (when?) it works in that corrupt little town.

Oh man, you guys get a CAR? Lucky!

There was actually some sound advice mixed in with the outright misogyny and "boys will be boys" apologism, i.e. "please don't imitate boys in their behavior, laugh at their jokes that degrade you, or keep their company when they stop behaving themselves."

Nope. Just don't like that word.

See, why I think this is interesting is not to discuss whether or not she is a feminist, because I will take her at her word, but rather whether she feels that her books "walk the walk" and thus the discussion is: how do we talk about authors who purport to be feminists who write the most popular anti-feminist…

THIS is a great Jezebel post, in my mind, because it is ripe for interesting discussion. Madeleine's last paragraph is EXACTLY how I felt reading this. I was so pleased to see an embracing of feminism by a prominent writer, with - seemingly - an understanding of what that means....while also doing my cocker-spaniel…

I would at least add it to your introduction of yourself to new people: "Hi, I'm Edna, and NPR once golf clapped at my joke on Twitter." Kinda like how I am now going to introduce myself the way my 2.5 year old niece said hello to me the other week when I visited: "There's Jen. Jen is here. It's Jen."

Awesome. I just posted that Peter Sagal once responded to a question I had about swimming regimens and I was so delighted I told perfect strangers about it. Wait Wait fans, unite in sublime dorkery!

And how was I supposed to know that? Certainly read like a direct insult, but I am glad it wasn't.

Hmmm, are you calling me a "beast" for disagreeing with you? That's delightful. Women on women name calling and misogyny is always a favorite.