Wow, so killing yourself if you are seriously and deeply depressed means you are somehow less valuable than people who have found help and been able to stay alive? I think that comments like this really make people who have attempted suicide and who live daily with this issue feel like shit. I know that's not your…

And Jason just literally checked his watch while somebody I've never heard of talked. This is such a mess.

Rashida Jones just brought two babies to Jason S. I have no idea what's going on.

I think for me it's the sort of emo screaming/attempts at vocal tricks that don't work/rousing U2 like choruses that don't land/terrible songwriting combo.

LOL, this is terrible. Like, seriously terrible.

Take out can range from a many types of foods, from salad to pizza to Indian food to vegetarian restaurant fare. You have no idea what she fed her children unless you happened to live with her.

I guess I'm just shocked that this is a feminist website. I thought I was reading the comments section of an Anne Coulter article for a minute. My mom cooked, but big whoop; her cooking was literally the least interesting or important thing about our relationship. I'm glad some people had supermoms who cooked dinner,…

Thanks for sharing a bit here. I find the whole "pff, I could've made this photograph" bullshit in this thread pretty galling. People have a bone to pick with contemporary art in general because they don't bother to learn about it or come in with preconceived notions about it's value. You might not love somebody's…

Way to not have to explain your position. If you wanna get all literary critic on a light New Yorker piece, then actually do it. If you feel she is taking somebody else's rightful spot, then by all means, tell me what the issue is and how the literary world is being harmed by her. I prefer bitching about James Franco;…

I'm sorry dude, I'm simply not following you here. I'm a writer and I can't even manage to get upset about her writing a few articles and a book. And frankly, most published writing is crap far beyond what she is writing here, and I'm counting literary writing, too. I think her article wasn't bad, though certainly not…

I just don't see Dunham having much to do with these international female writers or any other literary writers you are naming, to be honest. She seems to be a cultural figure much like Tina Fey. She's a comedian. Writing about a particular lifestyle and worldview without claiming to be writing about experience…

Can I just say hallelujah to this? My mother spend her life slaving over a stove for shitty food because we couldn't afford anything else; it felt like she was cooking basically all of the time, and food was a constant struggle. I find cooking to be a boringass burden. My husband likes to cook, and so he does. When I…

That's pretty shitty to say. Pretty sure the OP can keep herself alive, despite not being taught to cook, and as she says, she learned how to do it herself. Perhaps she learned other important life lessons from her mother. Cooking is not an inherently virtuous thing, and not everybody loves it or wants to learn how to…

yes! the world used to totally be interested in female intellectual figures. Remember that great Joyce Carol Oates and Bell Hooks show they used to have on HBO? I don't know what world you live in, but this is kind of complaining that people are now all interested in Scarlet Johannesson instead of Virginia Woolf like…

WTF is up with all of the "not cooking for your kids is evil" crap? Cooking is not inherently virtuous. You can cook garbage as well as you can order good food. And not everybody likes to cook or is good at it. Not everybody finds cooking nourishing or spiritually whatever. Personally, I'd rather talk to my imaginary…

Dude, I don't know what kind of job your parents had, but not every job allows for cooking with any regularity, and not everybody is much of a cook. I think kids can grow up just fine with take-out if parents are careful about what kind of food they buy. I don't find cooking inherently virtuous.

I'm not sure if what you are referring to as the "culture" is correct. There is a particularly fundamentalist and dangerous sub-group of the larger culture that supports this. That's the people and ways of thinking I challenge. And this is what is problematic about making assumptions about a culture that we only get…

It would be a mistake to think that the entirety of "other cultures" is encapsulated in this one quote.

Oh, I didn't see this earlier! Please feel free to disregard my previous comment. It looks like you went through a good conversation here.

Just a tip, and this isn't even snarky: usually posts that start with "Just so you women feel better..." or "Just so you know..." and include some iteration of why you, as a man, find a certain type of woman hot/interesting/sexy/worthy of life is going to be taken very badly by many people. Because it is still…