Matt Damon manages a double-sexy list coup, and he still gets saddled with perhaps appealing to men more than women? I respectfully disagree - this girl has thought he's the hottest of the Hollywood bunch since his early days, for brains and good looks. The rest of the world just needed to catch up...

Excellent piece and commentary -- it has certainly given me a lot to chew on. As an aspiring historian, and a young woman, I am continually surprised by the dicussion of gender divides/roles, not because it isn't interesting, but because I believe the discussion has become increasingly irrelevant. Gender roles have become so mutable that I question why we debate over and over again what men prefer to women.

I am a history geek, a science fiction lover, a political junkie and certainly a fiction reader. My boyfriend eschews both history and science fiction for non-fiction, political commentary, poetry, and fiction -- and romantic comedies that I cringe at. And by the way, he's the cook.

We often discuss the changing nature of gender in our generation and agree that there are definitive differences between men and women, but that we see our peers constantly bridging those divides, rendering any unchanging definition of feminity and masculinity moot.

I suppose the topic will never go away, and there's no good in trying to suppress the conversation. Just hopeful.

That someone can force you to have a procedure you haven't agreed to and don't want? Wouldn't that in itself makes the law unconstitutional.

Growing up in Georgia, I'm not unfamiliar with this. A lot of laws that were blatantly in violation of women's rights came to the legislature, passed and then were impossible to enforce -- and shortly thereafter repealed.

It seems amazing that this could have been vetoed by the Governor and then had such overwhelming support in the legislature to override the veto.

I just can't get over the audacity -- that you might walk into a doctor's office, and against both your's and the doctor's wishes you are forced to go through a medical procedure.

Keep it up !!

I agree that maybe all of these topics don't naturally go together, and were perhaps lumped in a post that at times didn't make a ton of sense, but the hate coming from some of these comments in unbelievable.

I don't thin Hannaham meant to criticize all mothers, all women, what have you. Seems more like an observation on the sordid happenings in the world of parenting these days, coinciding with Mother's Day coming up.

As for calling them "rape-children" and feral, I don't think it demeans the kids in anyway to acknowledge that they are a) the product of rape, forced on their mother by the grandfather, and b) raised outside of the confines of civilization (they even speak to one another in animalistic noises). I think the better outrage should be that there are tens of people coming forward alleging that Fritzl was a sadistic, overpowering, violent male figure, but everyone stayed quiet about it. If they had ferreted him out years ago, perhaps these children and their mother would have been saved.

During which he said "The Democratic Party today is not the party it was in 2000. It's not the Bill Clinton/Al Gore party...it has been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the party that is protectionist, isolationist and very, very hyperpartisan. So it PAINS me. I'm a Democrat who came to the party in the era of JFK, it's a strang turn of the road that the one candidate, in my opinion, close to the Kennedy legacy is John S. McCain."

He goes on to essentially say that the big reason he has "left" the Dems is because of hyper-partisanship in Washington. As if the climate of hyper-partisanship came out of anything by the Republican Party which he so cherishes now.

I can just imagine -- comparing McCain to JFK at the Repub convention. Time to throw him out, unceremoniously. Better to grapple with the consequences now instead of later.

Even though he's on the older side (and apparently Ohioans don't want to see him go because he has no obvious successor for governor) talk about someone who will bring in a swing state and all of those middle class votes. He's wildly popular in Ohio, is an up by the boot straps kind of guy, has executive experience -- I've gone through 3 pages of comments here and have yet to see one person calling it for Strickland.

sucks.

For some of us, allergic to things labeled fat-free or low fat due to the aspartame/splenda thing, eating lowfat yogurt is even worse than gross. It's forbidden. I get really worked up if I'm at a deli/coffeeshop, etc. and want a yogurt but have only the Dannon Lite opition. Blech.

If you're lucky enough to live in the South and have a Publix grocery nearby, pick up Publix brand Creamy Blends. Super good and full of fat.

My boyfriend brought a big tub of Stonyfield yogurt into work last week and was ridiculed. Case in point, I guess.

and then I saw how many people had already written brilliant, eloquent reactions. The fact that this post took up so much space and energy and says next to nothing of interest is kind of wild.

I'm as fierce a progressive woman as the next. And, like many, I have been an Obama supporter since last year. Hillary Clinton was the defacto Democratic incumbent. Sexism was hardly the death knell of her candidacy. More like her missteps and the poor advice she received from her advisors.

In any case, I thoroughly enjoy Broadsheet, but every so often I feel as if there is no place here for a middle of the road progressive young woman like me, not a women's studies major, not a Hillary Clinton supporter -- it certainly feels sometimes as if there is a tremendous vacuum in the femisist movement.