Oh, that absolutely happened. There was even a term for them; "sob sisters," women journalists put on sentimental or lightweight beats. But there were some legit badasses as well - Ida Tarbell, Nelly Bly, etc. Not excusing journalism in any era - sexism is still alive and well. But there is a many-generational…

For a long time, journalism was one of the (very) few even remotely accessible career options for women, so I like to think we're a few years ahead of the curve in terms of female acceptance.

I also think, particularly for women, the messaging goes; "brand yourself fat even if you're not." I'm not saying all women are fat or anything, just that we are encouraged to perform fat self-hate no matter how grounded in body reality it is.

I met my husband when I moved to Boston to get my masters. He, with his bachelor-having self, had an office job with money. I ate well as a grad student, and now that we're both working he makes more money than me because he has seniority, that big jerk. Which one of us was the smart one, again? :)

I was soclose to getting married in one of his gowns. If it (my wedding I mean, not the gown) had just been a bit more formal. Next time.

I kind of love Oprah's hilarious contempt for the whole 'bravery' 'exercise.'

I go back...and forth....and back....and forth....and nearly always land on the no kids side of the fence. It's nice to picture them being nine years old and precocious and able to make their own beds, but everything leading up to that? And everything that comes AFTER??? I have so many friends with tiny babies and all…

Husband and I are going to see Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen!

My husband is bald and he hates the fedora persona more than anyone else I know, because they ruined a perfectly good hat.

This seems a little second-wave and reductive, but in all seriousness I do get where the impulse is coming from. That being said, I think it's better for kids to be shown a diversity of adult female self-expression, with some women wearing red lipstick because they want to and some not wearing any makeup because they…

THIS ——- is Marketplaaaaaaaaaaace.

It really seeps into your worldview. I am 4'10" and my husband is 6'4". When we get into philosophical discussions, he can't understand why I don't think people are basically good, the world is getting better, God loves us and there is cause for optimism. I tell him I'd probably have a nice sunny outlook if people…

You know, if future anthropologists came upon a trove of early 21st century diet books and used them to reconstruct ancient American eating habits, they would conclude that we were all deeply abstemious and only ate lettuce and tofu on weekdays.

I have never seen this before and I love it.

This is misformulated so much. It is not, never has been, that women 'don't need to find a man attractive.' It's just that the visual culture in which women are raised is almost 100 percent optimized to provide sexual wish fulfillment to men, so women have, perversely, a kind of freedom to define attractiveness for…

Could the conflict of interest ramifications of polygamous marriage be cleared up by utterly removing the tax implication of marriage?

They are the best coworkers. I would rather take 20 minute cuddle breaks or watch them freak out at bird feeder commercials than listen to some 58-year-old schmuck do his hilarious impression of an Indian outsource worker and complain about vehicle excise taxes.

Wow. I've been on the Dash diet for years!

That's weird, because movies with well-defined female protagonists always tank at the box office. It must be the snowman. I fully expect a 2015 glut of snowman movies, with titles like Snow Job, The Iceman Cometh, and He's Such a Flake starring Kevin Hart.

That's weird, because movies with well-defined female protagonists always tank at the box office. It must be the snowman. I fully expect a 2015 glut of snowman movies, with titles like Snow Job, The Iceman Cometh, and He's Such a Flake starring Kevin Hart.