As others pointed out, during the presidential race, Mitt Romney had 18 grandchildren.

It's called coercion. If there's a person in a position of power who stands between you and something you're totally qualified for and yet tells you you can't have it unless you have sex with them, that's coercion. You very well may feel forced to have sex with them even if you don't want to. It's horribly exploitive…

You caught me out! I'm one of those rad-fems who thinks that when a woman is at a school talking about the importance of STEM careers, it's offensive and, frankly, fucking stupid to make a spectacle of her by asking her, publicly, to be your prom date. Essentially, what Pat said was: "Yeah, yeah, enough of the…

I need to whine a bit. I have a new book coming out next week, so I'm a bundle of nerves. Like, I always though after a while, it would get easier. It hasn't. Instead, now I worry what if people hate it, what if the last book was the best I could do, what if people are offended by the book, what if I'm not good…

I don't want to live in a world where a princess can't have a penis.

Because he doesn't know what a metaphor is?

Whoever he is, I'd rather have sex with Joe Biden.

"It's about time!"—-A million elderly relatives everywhere

The aesthetics, the worldviews, the sources of income, the fear of expressing anything that could be construed as genuine sadness...these ladies are the Jack Daniels Single Barrel to the patriarchy's corn.

SUZANNE, you are the best thing to ever grace Netflix.

• Japan is the most down with drinking booze, with 66% of people saying they have no moral objection to drinking.

A quick search tells me this author grew up in India. In my experience, that really changes how someone will view this issue.

I second this! I volunteer at The Dougy Center (http://www.dougy.org/) where they run support groups for young folks who have had someone close to them die. It is super important that we as a society understand that suicide is a criminal or malicious act, but rather a symptom of a mental health problem, just as a…

That bugs me, too. It's a funny thing, that weird mommy voice. I never did it with my kid (we have videos, and you can hear me talking to him like he's an adult — even when he was a newborn! LOL) — and a lot of my mommy friends asked me why I didn't. And I said "IDK, because it's annoying and not necessary?" I wrote…

Keep on frowning, I say.

I mean, even if you mean it genuinely (and it can be really, really nice to receive compliments!), it's just that no matter how well you mean it, it still reinforces the idea that women are there to be judged for what they look like. So you just have to be very careful. If it's someone you know well, you're on much…

the secret is: we don't really want you to. menfolk invented and perpetrate that as a way of demonstrating power over each other and over women. stop doing it and it won't be missed by anyone except those who have also bought into the patriarchal bullshit, and you don't want them anyhow.

Absolutely!

For me, the statement "I am not here for you" hits home the hardest. Even "benign" street harassment is generally demanding something of its object, and is still an uninvited intrusion into one's day. If I have to bother a stranger to ask for directions I feel badly for intruding, and yet so many men feel entitled…

This is where someone comes in sarcastically asking if they should just never talk to women at all.