Also, to answer your question about why the right thinks he's the liberal standard-bearer, perhaps it's because of moments like this:

Huh? I've never gotten that impression from him at all. He comes from his own perspective of being a John F. Kennedy Superfan, working on campaigns in the late 60's/early 70's, stints in the Peace Corp, etc. Which he will tell the viewer. He's not objective. But he will call out issues he sees regardless of the…

I LOL'd.

I agree with you; I think kids have a weird way of taking hyperbole ("I'm gonna kill you") and using it to inform their vengeance. Murder, rape, what have you. All it takes sometimes is accidentally seeing one episode of say, Law & Order. And they also have zero clue what it actually means when the appointed time…

Not to worry: one blind item about them was that she likes it rough and wanted him to hit her during sex and he was terrified of doing so which lead to their breakup ages ago. Maybe they reconciled that little issue somehow, but at least it points to him not being an abuser and also not having to worry about her…

"We'll never know."

This is silly. She's a former blogger who has already proven that she can gain an audience. She's earned the book, whether you find her to your tastes or not.

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Yes, the power behind the throne syndrome. I wanted to include that but I write like crap and couldn't fit it in. But it's not that women are less aggressive or less ambitious because we're women, we've just had to go about things stealthily for thousands of years because men weren't having it.* We're in a bit of a…

Well, simply put, even in this modern age and of course depending on the industry, you're simply not going to be seen as a threat by men as much as women. Cuz woman.

I think this article, and the book being discussed, are remiss by not giving reasons why women might be cutthroat towards other women. A lot of it leads right back to the patriarchy, and has nothing to do with women and men being different or handling stress differently (although some of that might be true for…

This is not just a reply to you, it's also to that OKusername dude, who seems to think saying Jezebel is hypocritical is a legit argument. Please, even Jezebellians know not to go full Jezebel. But beyond that, there is absolutely nothing wrong with telling women to have self-respect, and the MRA-types could learn…

Depends on what you mean as loser. I mean, I know a couple where the guy is a total bro-dude who had no more ambition than to play disc-golf and was a total, "get in the kitchen" to women type. Wanted to get married, girlfriend said she was moving to another country to start grad school plus wanted to have babies in…

Well, I actually don't have trouble with the idea that the book is a in-house product of Facebook. That's how things are done and I suspected it from the start. It doesn't take away from the book or Sheryl Sandberg though; the message still has to be relevant and timely, and she obviously has more experience than…

Ah, I did forget about companies not being American. Something more to think about. Thanks.

Isn't this some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy to a certain extent though? I mean if one thinks that gamers are single male dweebs who drool at any pair of tits, and the gamer companies hold functions with entertainment targeted toward this stereotype, then the guys will react accordingly and drool at tits. But if…

I love this article. One thing though, and I'm not trying to nitpick, this is more of a question borne out of ignorance maybe since I haven't read up on it in over a year. I'm not even sure how to put it but my question is something like this:

Zima.

I know! Why Do ‘Teen Mom’ Stars...[Like? Love? Hate? Complain About? Fear? Still End Up?]...Getting Pregnant? Do I have to read the article or go to Tumblr to find out? Dammit.

Foregone conclusions — you ain't kidding. I've seen a lot of what is nothing more than speculation as to why He was fired and She was fired. Unfortunately I think the press is banking on readers' outrage from both sides of the coin. But there isn't a lot of concrete facts to get outraged about, we're just seeing…