Do I spy a Boden sweater on Jen? Has she fallen prey to the mini-Boden for behbeh, then grown-up Boden starts to look good for mama disease that has swept and ravaged the circle of my acquaintance?

@RobertaFisk: @Maritsa: That sounds right based on the rest of the requirements on that list. So China doesn't want its own familes to keep their daughters, but also doesn't want single American women to have them either? Yes, I'm sure Chinese orphanages are a much better life for those girls than anything I might be…

Yesterday after I spent the morning with the paper, and after reading this AND the lesbian nature retirement communities article, I called up my best friend, who's a guy, and was all, dude, feeling useless and beside the point a little today? Those two articles in conjunction really got me feeling unsettled.

@usepenandpaper: OMG, is Linda HOlmes Miss Alli? I LOVE that she is kicking ass in arenas other than tv-show recapping.

@Your Screenplay Sucks: A man with a book and that jawline make me want to be perforated soft fruit in a pinch.

@skole: Yep. In my mind, there's that Evolution of Man chart, and at the end of it is Venus. She's like what the rest of us are evolving to, and she somehow got there a few generations early. At least, for the sake of my someday great-great-granddaughters, I hope so.

@Cafezinha FINALLY HAS HER STAR—OMGYAYTHXHORTENSE!: That's exactly what I was coming here to say — just when I was thinking I can't believe how many of these there are, I noticed I was halfway on the scroll bar.

Actually, Dodai, the title of this gets it wrong. There's nothing in the article that says a woman who is bullied is more likely to be bullied by a woman. It says a woman who bullies is more likely to bully a woman. Those are not the same thing.

@pandorasmittens: I think the movies, and the show Bridezilla, and Say Yes to the Dress, etc. ARE a socialization agent.

re Rahm resigning: I arrived home last night to a message from him on my answering maching letting me know personally that he would be stepping down sometime soon as my congressman because, as I may have heard, he's been asked to serve as white house chief of staff. Don't worry, his offices will remain open and…

I've been tivoing Bravo episodes of West Wing for the last few weeks (self-medicating my post-election withdrawl), and bumpit ads are in heavy rotation during them. Whenever I'm fast-forwarding through commercials, I totally stop and watch the bumpit ad. I especially love the special gigantic size suitable for special…

@LittleLolly: American Heathcliff, brooding and comely.

@G hottie: You know my dad? My parents, both retired literature professors, have been members for years. Just on the receive-the-quarterly-newsletter level, though; can't say they'd be up for a costume event.

I have no defense against a wink. Knees and loins tremble equally. It's an extension of the best thing in the world, the eyes meeting wordless exchange because you both know you're thinking the same thing about what else is happening in the room. But it is appalling in any situation other than a romantic or…

Okay, I'm going to out myself here as a reformed Liev Schreiber, uh, devotee ("stalker" is such a harsh word, don't you think). As such, I've been wondering what happened to Chicken, his adorable jack russell terrier. I've been assuming Naomi was anti-dog, or the baby couldn't be around the dog or something, but here…

I realize I'm super late to this post, probably too late to get in on any real discussion, but I'm so fascinated by this. I've had a Beyonce theory going for a few years now about how so many, if not all, her hits (and that's all I know about — never heard an album all the way through, not familiar with b sides or…

@luxylux: And apparently somebody else thought the same thing, because I just checked back there, and it now just says he raped her —"borderline" was deleted. Better late than never, eds. of twop.

@HeatherNumber1: I was disappointed to look at televisionwithoutpity — which I love and read devotedly — this morning and see that the recapper there characterized it as "borderline rape." Just, really? I did think it was interesting, and probably historically accurate, that someone who we see as pretty strong, and in…

Time magazine this week has an interesting piece that makes a more nuanced point: that the Tina Fey stuff may actually benefit Palin, because while it certainly makes fun of her for being diwitted, it doesn't touch on the really frightening stuff about Palin, what a malevolet being she is. So to the extent it creates…

I think that a person has to self-identify as a feminist to be one. That doesn't mean that everyone who says he or she is a feminist actually is, but if you're not willing to say you are, you're not (it's a necessary, not a sufficient, condition). There is nothing grosser to me than a woman who will gladly wrap…