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...

Potato-sack

The Jezebel ring-threads I find so fascinating now have a companion piece: the comments on a personal essay about one woman's journey ...

"How could anybody not like you?" - Helen Seinfeld

At the intersection of parental overshare and the window-of-opportunity problem: the Princeton University mom who wrote a letter to a Pri...

"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...

Again with the lattes

You who are young and broke, did you know that buying coffee out every day costs more than not doing so? For what is, I estimate, the ten bi...

Adulthood Studies: how do you buy pants?

I've decided I don't have a problem with leggings , or even leggings-as-pants (despite having once received 15 minutes of fame for ...

More interns-and-housewives

OK, so make this reminder number I'm not sure how many, this week alone, that I need to pitch more articles . There's now a really g...

Sigh, natalism

I can now add to my list of minor achievements that I was telling Ross Douthat he was wrong about natalism before it was cool . I am now, it...

Man oh man UPDATED

A woman writes in to Prudence , insists that she's super duper tolerant, then confesses that she's not sure if she should stay with ...

A safe space

Amherst is evidently one of several elite colleges incapable of properly dealing with sexual violence. Going by what I've read and my o...

Are you being served?

-The tipping wars have been rekindled , with a horde of commenters furious at a stingy blogger who had the gall to confess to only tipping ...

Towards a tip-jar economy

The New York Times, which itself  offers unpaid internships , calls out unpaid internships, and questions whether the fashion industry can c...

"[I]t’s a specific aesthetic—slim, muscular, flat, I loved that."

Has anyone else noticed the extent to which body type , which for the most part is a case of you've got what you've got, gets confu...

Beauty and ketchup

-In the guise of a beauty post, here's an interesting career trajectory narrative. What privilege can do, and what's required of th...

The end of dieting

Just now, I overheard a woman telling someone how her husband had lost a great deal of weight. Pressed on which diet he'd used, she expl...

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...

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...

The height of philanthropy

-There was a girl in my high school class whose stomach really did go in, or at least not poke out, even when she sat down. Perfect skin and...