Quinn completely sucks. That she has Steinem's vote, queen of white-lady identity politics, speaks volumes. I'm voting for Bill di Blasio!

So does this dude just blather on about his fee-fees, or does he actually DO anything that might make him better able to serve the public? Because "expert-level knowledge of Nice Guy-ism" doesn't get you elected to anything but the Board of Losers.

Ha, I was going to say "And don't fucking apologize on Twitter!" Because I hadn't before considered it a platform for serious discussion and certainly not for apologies, which, as you say, usually take more than 140 characters to make properly (and using "r" and "u" as words, let alone emoticons, makes almost any…

The more important issues are already being discussed by people here far smarter than me, but can I just say:

It's cool. We're intact. :)

That's a good point.

Dude, it was a joke. I'm happy for Ms. Beauvais; her boys are beautiful and the book is a nice idea. My comment was just a grumbly expression of what kids from divorced/single parent/"broken" homes always feel when someone says something like that, even when the person means no harm.

Ha ha!

-1 for all us suckers from non-intact families

I lived for a year in Durham (beautiful place) and once almost took out several shrubs and a lamppost in a frenzied attempt to pull my car over, because I saw this fabulous six-five-foot vision wearing the most awesome black and white striped socks: ALT!!! He could not have been more gracious to this crazy fangirl who…

The majority of American high-fashion consumers are rich women over 40, but it doesn't stop the industry from showing their wares on teenagers.

I'm having trouble seeing the tragedy of the woman most prominently featured in the update piece, Sheilah O'Donnel. She successfully re-entered the workforce. She's being paid a fifth of what she made at her pre-motherhood peak, but her peak was 500K! So she's got a 100K a year job now. No, she doesn't live in a…

eh, forget it. Not worth it.

Little Zion Wade's expression is breaking my heart.

So one lady (OK, a few, if you also count those who recommended my original comment), who you admit is in the minority here, says that she thinks the apology in question is insincere and douchey. And that opinion will make some other guy want to not try? Then that guy didn't really want to try in the first place.

Wow, you really needn't have taken it there. I wasn't rude to you. My original comment was in no way self-absorbed. But with this last comment of yours ... you're an asshole, how's that?

As I have said several times now, Roberts could have made a low-key, humble apology, free of cutesy acronyms and look-at-how-smart-I-am!-isms. It would have made the apology seem sincere instead of self-serving, and then I wouldn't have commented in the first place.

I behaved like this in college and I was the despairingist, most self-medicating headcase on the planet.

Of course I wouldn't, but I'm really not interested in apologies that aren't sincere, either.

While I accept that patriarchy is a very real thing, individual men like Roberts hardly "hold all the cards." He wouldn't hold the cards in my world, and I doubt he holds them in Olivia Nuzzi's either. In fact, I'd say that it's the fact that he sees he cards slipping away that causes him to lash out with gendered…