Gawker: In what appears to be a direct response to the failed boycott campaign of anti-gay group One Million Moms, JCPenney yesterday unveiled a new Father’s Day ad featuring a same-sex couple playing with their children. Well, I like that… Continue Reading
I was otherwise occupied on May 25, so I missed this article in the New York Times about Miralax, a commonly-prescribed laxative. (Hat tip: Edith Piaf.) The piece is such a shambles, it beggars belief that it was published. It… Continue Reading
After writing a post on why some academic fields are still male-dominated, it occurs to me that there are a few other things I want to say about what it’s like to be a woman in a male-dominated field. So… Continue Reading
For those of you just desperate to know what inane things I’m thinking, how far I’ve run on any given day, which things written by other people I’ve found amusing, and which randomly remembered songs I’ve found on Spotify, I’m… Continue Reading
One of the parenting truisms I have heard over the years is that there are two particularly challenging phases of childhood. The first is toddlerhood, and the second is adolescence. As the parent of a wonderful, charming, bright, inquisitive and… Continue Reading
This week’s question comes courtesy of NaPP‘s own Will Truman (who is taller than I had guessed): A few weeks ago, an old flame Friended me on Facebook. This was a surprise on a number of fronts, not the least… Continue Reading
It probably says something strange about my psyche that, unable to sleep as late as I could before departing for home, I had to get out of bed and write down the post percolating in my head. At least it… Continue Reading
After graduating college, I worked for a bit, then went into grad school for an MA in a field in the humanities. About 60% of the grad students there were female. I have no stats on that field, but I… Continue Reading
I must be losing my mind, or strangely jealous of all the fun, fun comments Rose got in her circumcision post, because I’m going to opine about one of those fraught subjects that tends to be intensely emotional and controversial.… Continue Reading
When the guilty verdict was handed down in the Dharun Ravi trial a couple of months ago, I expressed some concerns. Like many people, including many gay rights activists and writers, I felt very uncomfortable with calling loutish behavior a… Continue Reading