Wait. I'm confused. Kate Harding is mad? I didn't get that from the article at all. I found the article fairly easygoing in tone and more or less just a breakdown of the Kater Gordon speculation from all points of view. I also found her analysis of the women on Mad Men fascinating and sort of wished the article had been about that. (And those of you who think people don't f**k at the office are naive to the point of stupidity.)

Aging badly? Wrinkles are a sign of wisdom and time spent laughing and concentrating and vacationing in sunny places! Lost kicks it every week.

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Obama needs to forget about reaching across the aisle on this particular package. It is too important.

My 20-month old daughter grabbed a beer bottle out of the recycling the other day and carried it over to me, think I should be arrested? The people on here who think this man and his children did anything wrong, are beyond explanation.

If you are put out by a three-year old skinny dipping, than the screw loose is your own.

Just because something is hard, doesn't mean it isn't also joyful. Just because it asks a lot of you - like a career or a marriage - isn't a reason to hate it. Attacking someone's joy in parenting as 'dangerous,' is mean spirited. You would rather they were miserable?

You marry a man you don't trust with his own children? Then you deserve all the stress headaches and sleep deprivation of de facto single-motherhood. Pathetic.

My mom moved from Baltimore to a home for unwed mothers in NYC in 1961 or 62 and gave her daughter up for adoption. She died 11 years ago, and I only found out about my half-sister a couple years before she died, and I didn't ask a lot of questions, so I have no idea if she wanted to keep the baby and couldn't or what her specific situation was. How sad for my mom that she went through that. I hope her daughter is happy and thriving. Hell, she could be my neighbor.

There have always been personal essays on Salon and for that matter there have always been personal essays - long before there were blogs. Joan Didion wrote 'Goodbye to All That,' in 1967, so settle down. Also, what the hell is 'trivia-babble?'

You need to relax or you are going to have the delivery from hell. Worrying compulsively won't help you deliver, neither will going into labor with a minute by minute birth plan. It doesn't work that way. You need updated information, an ob you trust & some real women who have actually given birth to tell you what really happens. It's about the baby & the life you make for him or her, not the delivery. Good luck.

Incontinence? Brain damage? An unbearable, un-healable tear? Funny, I've given birth vaginally twice in two years - the second time just three weeks ago - and I pee fine, my children are not at all brain damaged and my tear healed quickly and with minimal discomfort. Had I opted for a c-section I would still be healing from major abdominal surgery. What fun. Sarcasm aside, I don't actually believe there is a right or wrong way to give birth - everyone gets a baby in the end, but histrionics about a basic life experience that billions of women go through is both dangerous and just plain silly.

I would rather gouge my eyes out than watch Cintra Wilson's take on the Oscars.

Sorry Nancy, friendships end. People move on. People get hurt. It is still totally pathetic that you have sold out your friend, who of course can't respond without looking petty and/or corroborating the things you say she has done to get jobs (as if she is the only one!). I think you were pretty right on when you described your performance as 'sad.'

PS Why is this a story on Salon?

Right on MR Lang! Enough about the goddamn strollers already! Is that the only way the Broadsheet distinguishes between women?! She has a cheap stroller, therefore we like her. She has an expensive stroller (never mind that she might have worked for 15 years in big law to afford it), therefore we don't like her. WHO GIVES AN EVER LIVING SHIT! It's not ironic at all that Friedan's funeral was held where it was. The feminist charge that she lead, was populated by middle and upper class white women, who thanks to Friedan and her cohorts now go to nice colleges, get good jobs, buy pretty houses and sometimes stop working to raise their kids. Oh the irony. I'm pained. Move on, Broadsheet.

Oh my Christ. Buy Buy Baby is just a store with all price points, like Babies R Us or Baby Depot. 'Weeping on the stairs?" You've got to be kidding me. It's shit for your kid; Not rocket science. The thing I hate about articles is that it makes all mothers seem like a bunch of competitive morons, when most of us just enjoy the company of other parents and their progeny whether they push a Bug or a Chico. (Hey Isannah, Bugaboo-pushers are often hard-working normal people too and before you slam, no I don't have one.)

For Chrissakes, lighten up. Who gives a shit how fast Heidi Klum loses her baby weight? Some women lose it very quickly - particularly those paid to - and some more slowly and some not at all. That is between them and the mirror and if they choose to involve him or her, their partners. Heidi Klum is a grown woman who has given birth twice, not some anorexic starlet being idolized by tweenagers. Feel bad because her stomach is flatter than yours? That's your problem not hers.