I like her character, too. People say her acting is wooden, but I read her as very socially awkward (maybe even slightly on-the-spectrum) and very brainy. Those things produce an interesting mix especially when she is so extroardinarily beautiful. I like the fact that her intellect seems to be her defining…

I kind of figured there was more going on than just your doing all the cooking :). There always is, just as for me it was more than my ex never helping around the house or being a minimalist caretaker for our son ("stay-at-home dad" would be generous). I'm happy to report, though, that I think I've met someone…

It honestly feels like there is a venn diagram that does not exist on this Euclidean plane that describes the perfect intersection of not being TOO petite/pretty/feminine/young (so as not to be taken seriously) while at the same time not being TOO ugly/mannish/assertive/old/bitchy-resting-face-having (which causes…

Thanks for this and well said. Nice to know that a son learned these things from the example of his hard-working mother.

Yeah, really. God this article made me so mad when I first saw it in the Times the other day. This lady has decided that flex time, working from home and making every single little league game are her priorities. Good for her, but this has terribly little to say to/about women who do want to achieve great things in…

What a great thing to read. My first marriage is in the process of ending right now, for reasons that sound a lot like what you're talking about. I wish I had realized earlier how important domestic compatibility is.

I like your summary. I benefited from having a very old, very experienced maternal-fetal medicine OBGYN, and at my first 10-week checkup he didn't give me any instructions as to alcohol intake/abstention until the very end, when he said "oh yeah, don't abuse alcohol." Maybe that's a little liberal for most people,…

I love it, myself. Nice work.

Hang in there. A 3 week old IS horrible and you are not doing it wrong! I had my first baby when both my ex and I were unemployed and home all the time... And I was still a total recluse and crying all the time from lack of sleep, frustration and pain from breastfeeding. Seriously I think a full-time staff (or an army…

It's culture, not inherent ability. Working dads aren't expected to know how to do all of this stuff. And of course they aren't expected to really do any of it. They ARE expected to prioritize their careers and not take any time off, not just for paternity leave, but for shit like their kids' doctors appointments,…

This very much. A key missing link in analyzing the whole glass ceiling problem is the lack of support for dads. Not just stay-at-home dads, but working dads. There is tons of talk about how we keep working mothers in the workforce and climbing the ladder. Well, one huge help would be supporting working dads so…

That makes me feel ill. Two weeks after having my first baby, I still could barely walk and needed a donut pillow to sit down. My friend had a baby during her peds residency and got a whopping 6 weeks—I was outraged at the time, but now I feel maybe she was lucky. Doctors.

Haha I know. I like your circus performer fanfic spinoff idea though!

Canadian royals Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf were married

Sweaty cry potato

It's so aggravating trying to explain the actual jurisprudence happening to people who refuse to read. The opinions are right there, on the public record. Anyone can go see what the opinions actually say. They're quite clearly written (and I suffered a lot through my con law class wading through some insensible…

My hometown looks awesome! I'm excited for pride weekend in Chicago, where I live now—I think today's events are going to supercharge that party. But I am seriously exhausted from all the intense emotion and desk-crying today. It was an incredible day.

Of the Oscar Wilde variety?

I have this problem where extreme anger makes me cry. And I am bawling my eyes out right now.

Let's just call it "creative redistricting."