Leave Vassar alone but go ahead and fuck up Poughkeepsie, or as I call it, Po-town, or The Lsnd Of Endless Strip Malls. It's not like you could make it worse.

It's not just the hitting on her, but then denigrating her work and her opportunities when she turned him down. That's something women face and men generally don't (although I am sure it happens occasionally). Until you've been in that position and found out that your opportunities and credit for good work are tied to…

It's so hard to believe that some women might just not want to or not be suited for it naturally, while others might have been, but were socialized to "not want" such leadership roles? You really think society doesn't do that to women and girls?

And also the role of culture and societal pressure and assimilation in teaching girls and young women not to have or want the qualities needed to direct or otherwise lead, and to therefore not want jobs requiring those traits.

Sofia Coppola, Nora Ephron, Diablo Cody, Leni Riefenstahl, Jodie Foster, Tina Fey and maybe even Lena Dunham now are not household enough? At least Riefenstahl

Also Diablo Cody. She's definitely directed.

Nora Ephron (if we're counting deceased female directors).

You leave the Big Bang theory out of this. Leonard may have a hot girlfriend but he's not a Peter Griffin or Homer Simpson schlub.

I'm a white woman and I never thought that, or thought much of it at all. So clearly not all white women think that way.

Same here, man. I'm average, he's hot - like, not movie star hot maybe, but generally considered to be a handsome guy. Our personalities just mesh, it never occurred to me to think it was weird.

And I am a very average looking, kind of chubby woman. I 'got' him. I fail to see what's so weird about the idea.

He's good looking in the way my husband is good looking (and of course I find my husband super hot), but older. So...nice enough but not out of this world. My guy is handsome generally but he's not movie star, stuff of dreams handsome to anyone but me (well, maybe some other women have exceptionally good taste, too,…

I'm married to the guy I made the first move on (my best friend at the time so there's that), and it hasn't been that way.

There's someone I want to unfriend. We were friends but not overly close, and I was realizing that not only did she never invite me out, that she would make plans with others, but never me unless I initiated (meaning it wasn't just that she wasn't an outgoing or plan-making person). Then I made a crack she didn't like…

I have several Jewish friends who joke about their "Jew gold". No, no no no no NO, I would never make my own joke about "Jew gold" (I'm not Jewish). I do think that being Jewish gives them the right to make whatever jokes they want about themselves - even if some disagree, I won't say a word about it. I am Polish and…

I've been around the world with my husband and alone. On my own I went to China (rural and urban - Guizhou, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shandong and more), India, Nepal, Bangladesh (Bangladesh!!), Japan (although I met a female friend there), Korea (although I met a male friend there, but had to spend a lot of time out and…

Btw the key to an affordable night in Taksim is to get beer, not cocktails.

I spent 7 weeks in Turkey with my husband in 2011. We traveled all over and did a training course in Istanbul. We went to gaziantep, Sanliurfa, various towns in Cappadocia, Hatay, Musa Dagh, Anamur, Patara and Ephesus/Selcuk.

My only quibble is that maybe the numbers flip-flopped on the "marrying well" question because parents with daughters want them to do well and have good careers, as is natural, but parents with sons ticked "marrying well" not because they expect that the wife will be the breadwinner, but that they define "marrying…

The problem is the assumption that a good leader or more intelligent person is identifiable by looking a specific way ("like a lion") and less talented people look a different way. The shy, slightly overweight kid who wears funny clothes and fits the pig profile physically may be a better leader and more intelligent…