Nova Ren Suma talks about that in an interview for her most recent YA book The Walls Around Us (which is great feminist YA, and also some of the best magical realism I’ve read in a long time). It is crazy and frustrating that we still have to deal with the bullshit sexism of making the female character likable to make…

All of Blue.

Amen. I used to work three blocks from a Chipotle and had to stuff that thing into my facehole like some kind of weird-by-porn-standards object-insertion-fetish scene just to get the thing properly eaten without being late back.

Also, I've always been a fast eater, but then, I had a child. And it became hoover your food. My husband is insanely fast eater, and its worse now. You have approximately 10 minutes if you're lucky to finish your dinner before the kid in her high chair starts screaming. If you hold her in your lap, she makes a grab…

Or people with no lunch breaks :(

I'm offended as a woman AND as a librarian.

And many non industrialized ones.

My favorite recent post on this subject: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-conte…

Yeah, that to, why do men seem to think that it's somehow less shallow for a man to only care about looks then it is for a woman to only care about financial standing?

truth. Same goes for writing—kids write more nowadays than the probably ever have (via text/internet posting). If you can show them they do understand rhetorical standards or literary conventions of one kind, it's easier to get them to bite onto another.