Almost finished I promise

OK, so I'm mostly done investigating my own navel, i.e. discussing the response to my parental overshare post . But, two things. Thing o...

Office hours UPDATED

For the record, I did not write that letter (third and final) to Jezebel's new friendship advice columnist, Sara Benincasa. But there i...

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 ...

What my great-grandmother wouldn't have recognized as Brooklyn

Despite living in oddly-rural suburban NJ, and having had to dodge a live turkey while driving a couple days ago, I feel very connected to B...

Mansplaining and Impostor Syndrome

There is an academia-specific mansplaining-anecdote blog . If you are female, feminist, procrastinating, or the trifecta, there goes your da...

The squickiness of contraception

Ross Douthat, I'm confused . Sure, a belief that a fetus is a baby is not necessarily inconsistent with the belief that a woman should b...

Maybe she was born in Maybelline UPDATED

I've been against "natural" beauty since forever, but this is not a post about that. It's a post about how 'celebriti...