YES. I was going to write something similar—but then you went and took the words outta my keyboard and also re-arranged them and made them better and added some insight, so Imma just say "yeah" and share my own experience of liberal snobbery:

What is this self-involved yuppy fuckery? First came Bridezillas, making everybody think they needed to spend $20,000+ on their weddings, and now Rosie Pope has convinced upper-middle-class women that all the Klassy Moms(TM) need lotsa professional services to do it right. Marketing: the art of stoking female…

I've been panned before for decrying the poor grammar of tweeting celebrities, and it's made me reflect. I've come to judge the prose conveyed via social media using different parameters than, say, that published by a scholar of John Stuart Mill. However, I do think certain exceptions apply, and most salient among…

Finally, The Secret to Having it All: develop an immunity to 87% of popular culture. If only Susan B. Anthony had known about this.

Also, the voucher program is a stupefyingly bad idea. As a product of Catholic schools in both Louisiana and Texas, I would like to draw a distinction between "Christians" (read: Protestant Evangelicals) and the church in which I grew up. When I got to college, I was shocked to find that many of my friends—whom I…

"Facts are immaterial at this point." Exactly. What is material is my Strict Constructionist interpretation of the Constitution, which says I'm Right. And also that I should get paid for it.

Yep—either squatting, standing, squatting or some combo. While we're all used to the idea of the bed and stirrups, this is a rather recent development—in about the last 100 years or so. Before that, most babies were delivered by midwives using "birthing stools". If you think about it, it's pretty intuitive: if the…

Three things:

Oh_Em_Gee. I seriously can't wait for the next installment of this.

"Oh Jesus Fucking Christ!" —actual quote from the 15-year-old me to the nuns at my all-girsl Catholic high school in South Texas, who, interestingly enough, had the foresight to teach both abstinence and birth control and safe sex methods—as well as both evolution and the book of Genesis—at the same time, without…

Corporal punishment is not just a black church culture thing—it's definitely alive and well in my conservative, southern family. Both of my cousins—solidly upper middle-class, college-educated young mothers in their late twenties who are not regular church-goers—routinely give their kids a swat on the bottom, and from…

I did this to my hair couple years ago, before I knew who the hell Skrillex was. (I still don't really know who Skrillex is.) My inspiration was Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop" video. It's grown out now, but I had fun rockin' it.

Also, WTF is up with Ezra Miller's balloon date? Pretentious much? Finally, I don't know who I feel about peplums coming back. On the one hand, as a curvy woman, I'm optimistic that it's a sign that curves are also coming back. However, peplums are deceiving—you think they're going to camouflage your saddlebags so you…

I love that Jezebel includes close-ups of shoes because: (a) let's face it, we're living in the golden age of women's shoes when it comes to pure aesthetics; and (b) the shots also show how improbably jammed, creased, and squeezed the wearers' feet are in these lovely and expensive torture devices. I mean, Charlize…

Sounds like a curse. I seriously don't know wtf some of these parents are thinking with "creative naming" b.s. But then, I have a nephew named Orion and I think that's totally cool and appropriate, so maybe I shouldn't judge?

This seems like just one more iteration of the old misogynist saw that pregnant and/or menstruating women are too emotional to make good/rational judgements. As I see it, you have a few options here:

Seconded. I live far from Seattle, in a small town that provides decent services to the homeless, so it's a magnet for mentally ill people who've been abandoned by the system. A couple of weeks ago, a young woman was murdered senselessly on a public sidewalk by a homeless man apparently in the throes of psychosis. It…

Exactly. Hemachromatosis is extremely rare among women because we're chronic blood-letters. The disease runs in my family. When my brother was diagnosed, he had to get something like a unit drawn regularly until his iron levels came down. It was like he was getting his period every Monday for months! This all made me…

Yesterday while flipping channels I saw Dr. Drew interviewing some woman who was nearing 40 (but looked 20, obvs,) and had just recently decided to freeze her eggs. The decision came after several older women in her field had told her "don't do what I did—don't get wrapped up in your career and forget to have kids."…

Liquiglide seems like a great packaging gimmick for all kinds of products: toothpaste, glue, sunscreen, hair gel, ointments, lotions, etc. Then, of course, there are the condiments: ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, ranch dressing, (aka the Holy Grail of Americana dinner food.) I can't wait to see what new cancers will be…