More on the eternal must-art-be-nice question

I have no intention of seeing the movie "Spring Breakers," having been traumatized at 15 or so by Korine's "Kids," a...

Demure

Back in the day, a certain cult-of-personality English teacher (not, I believe, in the sinister sense ) at my high school, in a class dedica...

On "Josh" and "Seth"

I will admit that I first read  this reference to TV writers as "white dudes with names like Josh or Seth" as a bit Jews-control-...

Your friends, your politics

The anti-same-sex-marriage-from-the-left arguments keep on popping up (along with passionate arguments about whether it is sheep-like or a n...

News and commentary

I know I should follow the Supreme Court news from the newspaper. And I am. These are exciting times! But the Facebook response is so compel...

"Young and impulsive"

Caryatis pointed me to this (relatively tame)  Savage Love letter , from a 28-year-old man with a 28-year-old husband he'd been with si...

Goes around, comes around

Maybe these things are cyclical, because this doesn't feel entirely new, but it seems we've rediscovered that middle school is awful...

"On paper" UPDATED

Sometimes we all make assumptions. For instance, I'd assume an American Jewish woman of a certain generation would be familiar with what...

Six

When I've written about parental overshare , my focus has been on published articles and memoirs written by the parents themselves. It...

Your to-read list for the day

-Flavia's post on some not-useful new-pope commentary. -Stephen Metcalf on the brand that is Brooklyn. -Robert Huber on race in Philad...

A contrarian, devil's-advocate-ish post on marital name-change

Name-change and marriage is back in the news, with Jill Filipovic's straightforward, largely unapologetic demand that women cease to ta...

Beyond guyliner

As a matter of principle, I must approve of the fact that the most enthusiastic makeup-and-skincare routine "Into The Gloss" has y...

Today in baffling YPIS

Jezebel threads are often a great source for examples of YPIS - of people who don't know anything about one another ordering one another...

"Bitches be crazy"

A while ago, I mentioned that Simon Rich had written one heck of a misogynistic humor essay for the New Yorker. The well-known problem wi...

Intern-sectionality

Because the topic has interested me for so long, after writing about gender and unpaid internships for a wider audience , I did take a close...

Happy Valentine's Day?

-Do you have an engagement ring? Madeleine Davies of Jezebel probably  hates you , but you may be an exception, or maybe your ring isn't...

Bitter baristas, disgraced designers, and unpaid interns

-There exists a blog entirely made up of the nasty thoughts a barista (well, ex-barista ) has about his customers (seemingly written in rea...

The wedding not dreamed of since one was a little girl

On today's Savage Lovecast, Dan advises a mother (who's anonymous - this is not a post about parental-overshare) who thinks her 11-y...

On avocados, elsewhere

Autumn Whitefield-Madrano has kindly invited me to guest-blog at "The Beheld" ( here and here ) this week and next. WWPD is, as y...

SAHH

Slate has a story from a man who's a stay-at-home husband . Not dad, just husband. His now-wife got her PhD and (it can happen! though I...