On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.