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

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Men aren't able to find jobs anymore, and they're withdrawing from society, essentially creating a matriarchy. For the upper social classes, marriage is still a successful model, but for poorer people it's not.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.