A sensitive subject

When I read about the German court that ruled against circumcision for religious reasons (i.e. as practiced by Muslims and Jews), I confess...

Brevity

To the critics of Anne-Marie Slaughter's very-long-but-who-am-I-to-talk * manifesto : she's not claiming to tell the story of strugg...

The tasting menu

Only buy what you really want, even if it's more expensive, and spend less. Only eat what you really enjoy, and lose weight. These sugge...

Yoga for dogs

For Kei . Dogs and their strange couch-napping positions. How can this be comfortable?

Privilege: the official* WWPD definition

Flavia has a post up about " professional privilege ," and because I coined the acronym YPIS, another blogger, Withywindle , lured...

An only modestly outrageous proposal UPDATED

WWPD's legislative branch proposes the following: a law that would restrict what parents can write online or publish about their own chi...

Second After Sartre

The WWPD take on Anne-Marie Slaughter's already-picked-apart Atlantic cover story , "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." I...

I will remember you

The reverse of this problem used to plague me, and still does to some extent, although the years have killed off some of the brain cells in...

Odd jobs

Like any sensible humanities grad student, I keep track of Plans B through Z. In doing so, I came across what could well be the worst job im...

Some such thing as used

A car dealer, into his cellphone, unselfconscious and in earshot of potential customers, in reference to another (potential) customer: ...

The things to worry about roundup

-The question of "fast fashion" is in the news again, thanks to a new and much - publicized book by Elizabeth Cline. To some of ...

Nanny Fine, not a "JAP"

The " JAP " is back. On the show "Girls," one of the characters evidently fits the bill . Emily Shire situates the David...

Takes all kinds? UPDATED

Long post, main point in bold: This is going to be my third - and last - attempt at a post about the question of the wives of gay men who, f...

The myth of the "elite" diet

One reads a great deal about how these days, "we" (as in, the author and those like the author, in the author's estimation) ca...

Main Street, NJ

A friend who visited me recently described Nassau Street and thereabouts in Princeton as what she imagined the East Coast would be like befo...

"We have pocket guides for fish; finally, there’s one for humans."

It's almost as if Mark Bittman were reading WWPD . (He did once respond to something I wrote at Culture11, so it's not entirely imp...

It's Parochial Tuesday at WWPD

-The NYT had the good sense not to open up for comments its article about how The Jews are demographically inundating New York. -Sweden had...

The least true assertion ever

"'Often, American women look for practicality in a bag whereas les Francaises understand it is more about the image and the compl...

Qualms

I love that the woman profiled in that  article about how French women are in fact capable of getting fat, or at least of worrying that the...

Life at the zoo

Adorable baby deer? Evidence of deer plague? Alive, but not energetic. Didn't get too close. A well-camouflaged rabbit.  The biped doing...

"Sheltered, privileged, spoiled"

YPISfest of the day at Jezebel is about Stuyvesant . Someone thinks that because the median household income at Stuyvesant is higher than th...

Crimes of fashion

Even though I'm not a lawyer, even though my "work" clothes are dissertation sweats, for some reason, I keep coming across th...

Wax nostalgic

A Styles masterpiece, in keeping with the theme of the post below: a story about how girls - young ones! pre-high-school! - are now getting...