There's a lot of 'bad' fanfiction female authors because 'fanfiction' (of the sort that pre-dates sites like fanfiction.net) has been historically overwhelmingly dominated by women. Its an interesting history, really, and might make a good post.

Yeah, I know. Everyone totally lifts entire chapters from other people's books and then plays them off as an 'accident'.

It wasn't the MI series that had specific plagiarism claims against it, it was her Harry Potter fanfiction.

Google it. Its totally worth the read.

They may not know, of course. Her Wikipedia keeps scrubbing all mentions of it, so you'd sort of have to know there was something going on to google the stories.

Jan addressed this in other comments. She adopted her son and his sisters, and the children came from traumatic backgrounds.

"Betty Friedan started the feminist movement because she was bored at home and did not even think women were working."

You mean Pratt? I wasn't surprised at xoJane at all — it is an obvious logical next step for the overwhelming narcissism that was showcased in Jane (the magazine). There's a ton of very negative stuff out there from her former employees at Sassy.

Oh, I shared this with my writer's group and we all feel more than a bit depressed about it.

I guess I don't understand your question? I wasn't referring to the woman in the story; I was not offered a c-section because my daughter had descended too far into the birth canal for it to be a viable option. After the length of my labor, what actually happened was the next midwife came on duty — one of them…

She was too far down by that point to go to a C-Section. At the time, in a large amount of pain and exhausted, I didn't really argue the point or ask too many questions about it.

Fine and dandy and not so little anymore, but it did scare the hell out of me as a young, first time mother.

You mentioned divorce decrees — I assumed you were referring to custody, but to be fair, you certainly didn't have to be. She addresses alimony in her piece as well, unless you have some other issue to be brought up.

"Feminists do not want you to lose custody of your children. The assumption that women are naturally better caregivers is part of patriarchy."

Only if its long running performance art — this guy comes around on articles like this all the time, saying the same old things.

Don't worry — you can just bookmark it for the next time Jez runs an article about dating, and a horde of guys who never comment here descend on it to talk about how women have all the power because of vaginas.

I said this to Lindy a couple of weeks ago, but I'd like to see the Venn diagram for men who say 'what is feminism doing for me' and what these men are doing for women. Because I'm pretty sure there's not a lot of overlap there.

So, you didn't read the piece is what you're saying. Because she specifically addresses everything you say here.