Is how men's departments all have alterations on site for suits and pants, while women's departments don't. My husband is a weird size, but he gets to go to any major department store or Men's Wearhouse and has a professional fitter put him in a suit and then pin and tuck where needed and a week later he can pick up his perfectly altered suit or pants. Instead, I have to slog through racks of pant trying to find the "short" leg version, and then take them home and either alter them myself or find a place to take them to. It would be so much more convenient if there was an alteration person in the women's section just like the mens.

My most hated fashion is low rise pants. I'm so tired of seeing tummy, hips and hiney's hanging out of pants. I'm tired of feeling like I have to hitch up my pants all the time. When are sensible mid-rise or at-waist jeans and pants going to be back? I don't want mom's high waisters, but just something that doesn't feel like it's falling down or displaying my panties to the world!

But it sounds like the woman in the article didn't try to hard to get Plan B. She only called her current doctors and then gave up. Her excuse was that she was busy with her kids. Hello, there, but don't you think your husband could have looked after the kids for a few hours while you took care of this????

I had a condom break on me 4 years ago on New year's eve so my regular doctor was inaccessible due to the holiday. I checked with Patient First, but they do not prescribe Plan B. So I went to the most logical place to find birth control information...the Planned Parenthood website. I was able to get Plan B by from the Planned Parenthood website which in turn referred my to a Northern VA doctor that would prescribe the pills over the internet and call in your prescription to your choice of participating pharmacies. It took me about 30 minutes of research and I was able to pick up the pills at my local CVS within 2 hours. I don't understand why the writer didn't go there first to get Plan B, when she obviously knew about PP because she went to them for her abortion. And as much as the stalling of the FDA on Plan B bothers me, the person she really should be pissed off with is her OB/GYN. I really hope she switched doctors, since they refused to assist her or even refer her to someone who could. I can't imagine staying with a doctor that didn't put my health needs first.

Target has very stylish maternity wear. I wandered into that section by mistake and was pissed that they did't have it available in their regular section!

"There's a good reason for that. Remember Richard Reed? He tried to set off a bomb in his shoe during a flight from London to Miami. He failed because his matches kept going out."

--Over there, in the hat

And your logical conclusion is to ban matches and lighters? Doesn't it make more sense to spend your time and resources on looking for BOMBS, than a zippo?

Typical question from family member: "What are you going to about your job when you have kids?"

Do you think my husband ever gets asked that question? Of course not, because it's assumed that it will be my responsibility to take care of the children and compromise my career path to raise them. Nevermind that I've been in the work force longer than my husband and I am highly compensated for what I do. Do you understand how condescending and fustrating it is to hear this all the time?

Hirshman makes a lot of good points in her article that we can't just lay the blame on businesses that they aren't family friendly when our own households aren't working-woman friendly. That if women keep on taking on all of the tasks of child-rearing and housekeeping then we really aren't advancing the role of women and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We may not be able to make Congress mandate a 6 month paid maternity leave(not that we should give up trying), but we can make our households more equitable. We can do this by not assuming traditionally women's work should stay that way. We shouldn't play into the game that men inherently are unable to do dishes or change a diaper. That women should stop swooping in and being the hero/martyr. If you have to choose between having your house be a little dirty vs being the unpaid housekeeper for the rest of your life, then let the house get dirty. Hirshman is right in that not all "choices" are feminist choices. Choosing to play out some sexist stereotype is not feminism. Quitting your job because you "have a wedding to plan" isn't feminism just because a woman chose it. If that's called judgemental...I'm okay with that!

I had one of those traditional dads and there was a huge distance between him and my sister and I. He really didn't know anything about our lives when we were young. He was too busy "putting food on the table". Luckily that distance has diminished over the years and he is totally crazy about his grandsons. I wonder if he feels some regrets about all the stuff his missed out on with his own kids. I know I certainly feel a loss there. The impact of "the distant dad" doesn't have to be a negative one. Both my sister and I chose to marry men who were interested in being parents, not just providers.