Theoretically, The Mindy Project seems like it would be a far better show. But as someone who loved Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and Mindy-written episodes of The Office ("The Injury" is my favorite episode of all time), her sitcom is pretty fucking dire. New Girl is a huge step up.

But the thing that made shows like those so powerful was that there were so few sitcoms on the air. It meant that people were watching the show who came from vastly different life circumstances and experiences, so, to please their varied viewership, shows truly did act as a window for some people into worlds that they…

Er, did we read the same interview? Besides a phrase or two, very little in this interview bears a resemblance to the one you linked to.

A couple paragraphs down from the exploding uterus comment, there's a fair explanation of how women with MBAs have the lowest labor force participation rates followed by information about the dual costs of business school (considering tuition and lost wages). Are you sure you're reading it properly?

Anybody else physically recoil at "the art of lovemaking"? And on consciously having to refocus your eyes back on your computer screen, get hit again with the sleazy "put her pleasure first" line?

I hear you, but I live in a state that has a mandatory waiting period, required parental notification for minors, and mandatory in-person counseling. Planned Parenthood is important, but it's the laws that need to change for there to be any difference—not the resources of the rare providers.

I think that when women are driven to the desperate measures that she's describing—the wire hanger comment was simultaneously horrifying and completely plausible, from my perspective of living in a state when getting an abortion is tremendously difficult—they're risking bodily harm on a far greater scale than the…

This Hefner interview is gold. Totally in his "voice," but simultaneously way more on-point and way less icky than his usual. I hope Playboy is WISHING he spoke as quotably as this fake interview makes him sound.

I always assume there must be some physically good thing about elevated heart rate, too? I'm surprised there aren't many benefits.

Given that your first comment didn't clearly betray your gender and this is a majority lady community, I think some people assumed that you were a drill sergeant of a girlfriend ("No! Not yet! You will not come until I tell you to, goddammit!") rather than an iron-balled dude with med-fueled endurance. (In other…

Agreed. I hate that the author might be reading these comments and thinking, "Fools, can they not read tone?!" when in fact the tone of this piece is so all over the place that it is impossible to tell which ideas the author thinks have merit. Going from talking about exploding uteruses to including data that raises…

We still use data looking at people who have risen to the top of their industries to be able to gauge what is the best way to effectively prepare people for success in that industry. People look at the educational history of authors on the NY Times' bestsellers and Kirkus starred reviews lists to decide whether MFA…

Wholeheartedly agree. By alternating between making fun of opponents of MBA programs and including pretty reasonable data to support those opponents' positions, it ends up being just a mess. Take a position and own it.

I feel like the biological clock joke should have been a hint that this was meant in jest? Although I'd second that it's not super funny and it suffers from a lack of a clear point-of-view—she doesn't seem to be able to decide who to laugh at.

It is insane to me how much more reasonable the costs associated with higher ed are in other countries.

I don't know if we can call it the "standard"—only eight states require teachers to have them to be a certified teacher, and in many states, getting a master's results in a negligible pay bump.

Did you not read the sarcasm in her post? When she said that Gawker needs to start hiring more people without diplomas or GEDs because that would be the fair thing to do? I assumed that was pretty transparent.

Here's my thing: how did her eyebrows change so much? I see celebrities with those kinds of eyebrows from her "after" picture all the time, but I genuinely have no idea how that effect is created. I want that kind of exquisite grooming!

Why are we so certain that there will be a "someday, when the playing-field looks different" if we act in ways that actively preserve the playing field precisely as it is?Comfortable acquiescence has never led to substantive change.

OK, but "until we are in an world with an equal playing field" supposes that we're going to inevitably reach a point where there is an "equal playing field." Why is that certain, particularly if we're advocating for actions where cosmetic surgery becomes a new normal? I don't know if we can go about our days with the…