"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...

"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...

That's "Nice"

Jezebel takes on the Nice Guy , a phenomenon I was reminded of recently after seeing "Anna Karenina." Levin - in the movie, and as...

"Positively Amish"

Is it " positively Amish " to get married at 25? How Amish was I, getting married at 27? Reform Amish, or Conservative? Anyway, I ...

WWPD reads the news (on her phone, while half-asleep on NJ Transit)

Just because it's not on WWPD doesn't mean I'm not following it. I too am watching the Middle East fall apart, and am not sure w...

Dalliance parity

Oh, Dan . In what way is this - "Her marriage lasted 62 years, surviving Andrew’s long bout with alcoholism, as well as his discreet da...

Realities to contend with

-Tavi Gevinson continues to create, impress. As well she should - WWPD is pro-Tavi. It does strike me as strange, though, that we are only ...

Fundamental human rights

-The Atlantic had a piece recently by Talia Minsberg about Israel's new skinny-model ban . The comments go in precisely the two directio...

Women, eggs

-Sometimes, without knowing precisely what goes on at one, I'll announce my desire to run off to a spa. It sounds pleasant, right? Maybe...

Dan Savage's blind spot, continued

Dan Savage just received, reprinted, and responded to an excellent letter from a reader. The reader notes, correctly, that Savage gets a lo...

Feminist issues vs. women's issues

I mentioned Emily Bazelon's response to the Limbaugh debacle in an update to the earlier post , but since that one's getting unwiel...

A private matter UPDATED

All of the discussions lately about contraception - so much catchier than the Big Political Issues, and yet more hard-news than whatever els...

Dog and man

Out-of-context quote of the day

"Father Landry aimed his cellphone camera at one of the men and 'snapped a photo of his derriere,' he said. 'Because it’s e...

More pickitarianism

Brian Moylan admits he hates cheese. Because it's Gawker, the commenters are a) uniformly anonymous, and b) expected to shun sincerity,...

Inherently inaccurate

Dan Savage really does seem hung up on this idea that women have the capacity to be attracted to the person , regardless of gender . He got...

Ma'am demystified

Google thinks I'm a woman (check!) over 65, and living in the Pacific Northwest, a place about which I've heard good things, but I...

The forest and the trees

I haven't had a haircut since August. In theory, twice-yearly haircuts should mean it's fine for me to spend a lot each time. In pra...

Of Santorum and Camembert

In much the same vein as the post below . Dan Savage is apparently incapable of condemning the readily condemnable homophobia driving much o...