I think you'll generally find that women who expect to be treated as "special princesses" are the ones who buy into traditional gender roles and exactly NOT the kind of women who would call themselves feminists. It sucks that you dated some of these ladies, but that just means you picked up some shitty girlfriends,…

This response is so reasonable and cogent, I think I'm about to be faint. Thank you for getting it.

The fact that people frequently have to make a note of "male nurses" and "male midwives" kind of proves the point that these are fields that are dominated by women, regardless of your anecdotal experience.

I have no shame in loving L&O (but only the original, none of those overly sensationalistic, Johnny-come-lately franchises; THIS IS IMPORTANT). They are just solid, quality pieces of story-telling. They're equally great for watching with interest and for falling asleep on the couch to. Spotting young actors in their…

Oh, the timeless Lament of the Nice Guy. Why those ladies be making all those confusing leg signals? Why don't they wade through the crowd and find me, The Nice Guy? Hey, ladies, you don't need to spend all that time painting up your faces all fancy-like for the benefit of mens, because I decree that Nice Guys only…

I do like dogs, generally speaking, but I find cat noises to be so much more appealing. I mean, I guess there can be some yowling that's not the greatest; but I think 9 times out of 10, I think cat sounds are just cuter.

My favorite Gawker family comment in years.

Oh my god, is that him?? I feel devastated just looking at the picture and thinking that little face is gone. D:

Dvora, I've really loved all of your posts through these games. I hope there's some way you can clue us in on future world/national competitions. I never seem to hear about them until I'm flipping through the channels on a random Saturday and catch the last ten minutes of one. But thank you—this series has been great!

Man, talk about a double-bummer for McKayla Maroney! She flubs her gold medal shot AND misses a chat with Kate Middleton. I hope she got to catch up with the Duchess at some point afterwards.

They literally did not (at least I don't remember hearing any of that nonsense when Nastia won gold).

True, but part of the reason we keep hearing about that is because those two are such incredibly rare exceptions to the rule.

Aaaa, this makes me so frowny! That is really terrible. But at least it sounds like she's been able to share her love for the sport with young gymnasts.

This is such a bullshit, poorly conceived attempt to draw out causation where there is none (at least none that can be gathered from this lazy, lazy series of diagrams). But more offensive to me is how it reinforces the idea that it is somehow more virtuous for women to be "effortlessly beautiful," and that if we…

I've been so pleased to see her popping up in big things (The King's Speech, Contagion, almost Game of Thrones) lately. Go, Lizzie!

I prefer the other translation of her tweet I've seen so far, which reads, "I HAVE BEAT HIM." A little more stilted, perhaps, but it has more pizzazz!

Plus, it seems like it's next to impossible to remain Olympics-level competitive for four more years without destroying your body somewhere along the line.

I wouldn't put it past them, but I think that's been the consensus based on Maroney's past performances both at this Olympics and at other competitions. Her scores had, up until yesterday, just been that much better than the next leading vaulters.

It looks to me from the video like she's not even aware the Russian girl was there. She seems like she's trying really hard not to cry right at that moment, and I can only imagine that she was still reeling from shock and incredibly frustrated and angry at herself. All the buzz going on around her was probably just a…

Wow, that is some bulllllshit about Dianne Durham's failed try for the Olympics. Women's gymnastics is just so cruel because the window of opportunity for these ladies is so painfully, heartbreakingly brief. Watching the men's vault finals today, the commentators were talking about one of the men who was 22 and how he…