Yeah, no wonder they concluded that it must have to do with child-rearing. That's literally the only thing that could be concluded from a study that looks at a vague 16-44 age range.

My roommate has cats and they do this all. the. time. I've started closing my bedroom door at night, which my roommate brings up all the time with our friends in a joking "you're such a hermit!" way—and I so badly want to rebut with, "no, your cats are fucking obnoxious." For now, I've restrained myself.

See, they've done similar studies ("are people more stressed than people were 20 years ago?" "are people more emotionally drained than people were 20 years ago?") and the problem they keep running up against was that it was far less socially acceptable to complain about being exhausted/stressed/drained than it is…

That is a good slant that changes how I read your comment, but most of the replies are continuing a conversation of "let's discuss how frequently we are confused for younger people!", which I think is a continuation of what Tracy was trying to point out as problematic.

It feels like comments like these are kind of missing the point of this article.

This year, I have two students who had been homeschooled before, and this is their first year in a public school setting. I'm not sure if it's because their parents emphasized that they should expect bullying around every corner, or if that's just their go-to term for interactions that are not overtly friendly to a…

This was great! Absorbing, engrossing. Nice work.

I echo the Byron love, especially with the text of "seneca" with a lower-case "s." (I think that removes the over-stylized look you'd just mentioned. With the placement you mentioned, I look this would look awesome.

I definitely had fewer side effects. Try it!

Woo! Thanks, girl.

Not cool, O.

I know that I can get a little emotionally empty, in a bad way, when I'm on a string of hookups. Emotional distance is the key way that you establish your non-monogamous relationship expectation, which means that I frequently restrain myself from sharing or opening up even in to the same degree that I do with OK…

No, totally! That's how you get people switching careers in their late 20s/early 30s. But that's not what this article is talking about.

I think they mean that some of tensions/struggles that came with being conventionally attractive in the 1950s/1960s are not unlike the same tensions/struggles that exist today—especially when both women's livelihoods rest on that attractiveness.

Right?! I thought she was so restrained and strategic...and then I realized it was woodenness and a complete lack of charm.

But how do you know if a job would excite you and use your particular set of strengths until you are actually doing it? Dan didn't know that blogging about start-ups would be good until he started blogging about start-ups. I didn't know that I'd enjoy policy research until I started doing policy research.

I think this is spot-on advice if you're a writer, self-employed, or involved in any other field where you get to have some say in your daily responsibilities. It's so cool that you could try out a bunch of different blogging styles and subjects and figure out what works best for you! But for those of us who work in…

But I can certainly look down on someone who uses their wealth to be an actress, celebrity chef, and socialite. If you're born with millions of dollars, do something substantive with it. She has every possible advantage available to her—and she wrote a cookbook?

I'm sure she would, if she understood what you're asking here.

I really think that you're asking for an impossible product demand here. My sense is that hair that long, slept on all night and down all day, with hair too fine to wear heavy-duty products, just will get tangled. I'd recommend sleeping with it up, wearing it half-up as much as possible during the day, and carrying a…