When I want news and commentary that focuses on women's issues, I head over to http://www.womensenews.org/ -- which is a news source written for and by women. It's free, and isn't loaded with cutesy crap written by clueless wonders.

This bullshit blog offends me to my core. Are the women of Salon really such vapid girly girls? Use your brains, grow up, study history -- and get rid of this misbegotten bit of sexist crap or I'm outta here, and I've been a paying subscriber since the beginning. Insult me on your own dime.

Cheeky? Please.

This is yet another reason for me not to want to renew my premium subscription when it comes up again. I question the timing of this. While so many vitally important stories are unfolding on the political front, Salon is trying to emulate Wonkette without the butt-jokes. Talk about being out of touch with a readership!

I for one am very excited about Broadsheet. I am annoyed at the objections to this new section of Salon that include, "There's no such thing as women news! I'm a person!" or "I'm a real woman living in the real world, I have no time for gossip and style!". In my mind there is still a need for critical dialogue on the status of women and feminism in our culture. The argument goes, "Harriet Miers is a story for men and women!" Well, duh. But a critical examination of what her nomination, not to mention the criticism from both sides of the aisle, jabs at her marital status and clothing options, is not only warranted but I think needed. As for the "real" women argument, I for one am so tired of media outlets tailored for women only focusing on women's health, babies, fashion, cooking and marriage. I'm a real woman too. I'm 25 years old. I'm not married. I work all day. I also think about politics and culture and how that effects women in this country and around the world. I also pay attention to pop culture - we all do, it's all around us. As a young professional woman, I feel starved for a discussion about where women stand in the workforce currently - was that British guy right? Are women "wimping out" to be mom's and that's why there are a lack of us at the top? Where are the dads anyway and why don't they "wimp out"? Am I not supposed to expect my husband to stay home? No one is talking about this stuff. Looking closely at how mainstream culture collides with power, media and politics in this country from a feminist perspective is sorely needed from a popular outlet. The women of Salon have breathed new life into what it is to be a feminist. Hooray for igniting some real discussion about what it is to be a woman in a never-experienced-feminism world!

What I love about Salon can not be improved upon by making any part of it girl-centric or "cheeky!" and sure as hell not by making it pink.

Please know that not everything has to be branded chick-tacular to appeal to a female reader.

I am a celebrity trash hound and love the chance to have a laugh at, or with, Martha et al. But to collect these wee pieces of trivia and sell them as a new site feature that allows women to see themselves reflected in the media is so offputting. And really, Broadsheet? That's just cringeworthy.

I love the idea of a section of Salon that is expressly about women's issues.

The articles so far have been a bit disappointingly trivial, but I'm willing to give Salon the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks for adding a section just for me! I'm so glad to see a new online version of Women's Day is here at Salon! Please, include some recipes using Tater Tots!

Good luck, Salon. Hope these changes work out for you.

...with a little pink bow. How Sweet!

If you hear nothing else, hear this: I haven't been a "girl" since I was thirteen. I find the term, when used to describe women of any age, offensive. "Girls Gone Wild", indeed.

You know, I get it. Create a place on Salon for news of particular interest to women. Scatter a few gender POV-specific comments here and there, and voila! Broadsheet! The problem is, the articles you chose to include in this new woman's ghetto are mostly ones that tread awfully close to the edge of Cosmo-land. Hardly the bastion of women-oriented newsgathering. Posting fluff and calling it news is a poor beginning. You have eleven articles in this first edition. Only one would I consider an actual news article - the Rockettes story.

Here's a couple suggestions. First, lose the pink. It's a color that not only doesn't describe most women but grates on the nerves of many of us. Second, separate the gossip from the news. I don't need snarky commentary or "blog-styled" formats. Save the opinion for the editorial pages. And write about real news, not just repackaged middle-of-the-Style-section crap. There's enough real woman-oriented news out there to make this a vibrant, valuable addition to Salon.

We're adults, and we understand economics and politics as well as the men out there. If you don't get that, then you've got no business creating "Broadsheet."

This is ridiculously insulting and wrong, and Salon should be ashamed to have ever thought it was a good idea.

I find the very idea that there needs to be a separate space for this sort of thing infuriating. Think the news needs more of a feminist perspective? Great--put it into the articles on the existing Salon pages. Then let those articles sink or swim on their merits, without the cutesy-poo ghettoization.

The women I know who read Salon, post on Table Talk, etc., don't need their perspective pinkly roped off. If an idea is a good one, it can hack it in the larger world of Salon.

Lastly, I know it isn't your intention to imply that women are a monolith or that they ought to think alike--care about the same issues and reach the same conclusions--but it sure looks that way.

It's as if you want to have your cake and eat it too: on the one hand, you want to say, women are more nurturing/relationship-centered/funny/whatever than those nasty old men. Women are like this and care about that; they're good at this-and-so; they like this type of stories; their politics are like thus-and-such. (Whereas men, presumably, are all too often insensitive, crude, territorial boors and patriarchal oppressors.) But, at the same time, you want to say that stereotypes are bad! And sexist! Women can be anything they want to be! How dare you stereotype us!

If you don't see the inherent contradiction there, I can't help you.