He didn’t “break up” with her, though. He pretended to have a nervous breakdown and wrote that he would come back if he ever “got his head together.” In other words, he deliberately left the door open when he could and should have closed it. That seems gratuitously cruel. She was also worried that he might have killed…

More to the point, why would women want to join? The obvious answer is professional advancement, but I really wonder if female members would gain access to the old boys’ network anyway.

This article does a lot to explain it: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I just came across this horrifying paper on police as “gatekeepers” in rape cases: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I also terminated a wanted pregnancy because of birth defects.

Am I the only one who wanted her to just haul off and slug him?

“Rape by fraud” is a crime, but I don’t know if it applies here. Usually it’s the charge in situations where the rapist impersonates the victim’s partner — e.g. comes into a dark bedroom and pretends to be the spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend.

The drunk tent scene is reminiscent of the wild party in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

A couple of years ago my daughter told me firmly that she didn’t want me to post about her on Facebook any more unless I got her specific permission. She was eight at the time. I figured it was a reasonable request and complied.

Re literary heroines: Louisa May Alcott didn’t want Jo March to get married, either! She fought with her publisher about it. After all, Jo was her own alter ego, and she was a spinster. She was a feminist who celebrated the possibilities of the spinster life: “liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”

I hear he failed the Voight-Kampff test.

“At least Wolf Pack is less offensive than Pussy Posse."

Thank you. I hate that pose! It looks awkward and defensive and unnatural.

It has nothing to do with a brand. I don’t wear Lands End myself.

What about a goat? Could it be a goat instead?

I had a good story but Kinja seems to have swallowed it.

Long distance relationship. BF and I are having a fight via phone. I decide I’ve had enough and hang up. A moment later he calls back.

Long distance relationship. BF and I are having a fight via phone. I decide I’ve had enough and hang up. A moment later he calls back.

My only serious breakup consisted of the sound of a telephone being hung up. If it counts, I was the person who slammed down the phone.

So presidential....