There are actually quite high rates of autism in impoverished communities, among women who tend to have their children young. However children who are diagnosed early and have access to services like special autism preschools are *much* more likely to belong to parents who are wealthier and more highly educated. …

No, health/iq of second child optimal when spacing is 3-5 years. Poorer when closely spaced, or, bizarrely, when spaced >5y. I'm not sure what the explanation is though.

Oh shit, I don't wear it to weddings, meetings, or job interviews either. Am I a failed woman? Meh. Nobody's ever said it to my face.

Maybe she's a public defender and doesn't have a choice?

I think people who wear makeup become good at putting it on through practice. The people who never wear it are bad at it (raises hand) but why would we complain about being bad at applying this stuff we never wear anyway?

Just flip it around and look at it the other way then. Census polls of time use reliably show that men get several hours more per week of leisure time than women. Regardless of the *content* of the tasks, women still end up doing more labor and getting less leisure.

I can't say anything about your specific relationship but the census polls about time use reliably show that men have several more hours per week of leisure time than women, on average.

I just don't buy that this is all about the OCD Wimmenz with their Impossibly High Standards.

All I can say is my own experience totally belies that. Before we had kids my husband was very explicit that he did not expect me to ever be carrying the domestic burden. But there is a really insidious way in which the domestic responsibilities (and I am talking about domestic responsibilities related to children…

Yes but the 'level of relaxation' is magically constantly reset at a level slightly beyond whatever the particular woman can stand.

Yeah I got most of them right as well (#12 being the exception and I see from the comments it was a slang issue). In addition to the points you mention, the vocabulary and phrasing in the lad mags is marginally but detectably more erudite than the quotes from the rapists.

It's not that men are consciously thinking, "Oh, I want a sexy maid!"

Yeah I'd like to hear about that magic too. I just ordered a book called 'The Lazy Husband' from Amazon. I hope it's good because I really need it.

I do the Big Thank You for kid care too - not because it's ingrained (in me anyway - I think it might be in him) but because I am intentionally applying positive reinforcement.

I think YMMV on this one. Mine were more like yours sound pre-kids (size and shape of a pencil eraser), they didn't stretch per se but just got bigger all around (jumbo pencil eraser?) and now the tissue is a little stiffer so they are permanently headlighted. I don't mind the aesthetics at all but the…

You never know what will happen. Sophia used to be quite unusual in the US (though it was common elsewhere). And on the 'unspellable, unpronounceable' issue, I believe Nevaeh is now somewhere in the top 10-20 as well.

Honestly I think we have as much to thank the unnamed engineers who came up with household labor-saving devices for as we do the suffragettes.

She's Asian. Mascara does almost nothing for people with light skin and dark eyelashes. I've experimented with putting mascara on one eye only to see if I could tell the difference and I really can't at all.

There are no data on this practice. (I've searched the lit because I work in women's health and have gotten asked about this.) Basically, sometimes people do it. Nothing is known about whether it is beneficial or not. Your guess is as good as mine. (Personally my guess is that it's no better or worse than eating…

Looks like there were at least 5 of us, I just got my mitts on it first ;). Don't worry, you can have the next obscure Greek drama reference to pop up on Jez.