So says Carina Chocano, anyway, in Sunday's New York Times: enough with the "strong female characters," she writes, give 'em to us weak.

Strangely, I think she has a point.

And while I take issue with her choice of words, I think there's a lesson in here for those of...

The fight for the women's vote ramped up this week when Michele Bachmann officially declared her run for the presidency. The Tea Party founder is pro-family, anti-government, and has proclaimed herself the champion of women everywhere. We beg to differ.

She's just one of the guys, she told

Remember when you were a kid, and you wanted to pierce your belly button or stay out all night, and you'd say to your mom, "But mooooom, everyone else is doing it!"? And then she'd say, "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?" And then, if you were...

In a recent piece in The Atlantic titled, not terribly ironically, "How to Land Your Kid In Therapy," Lori Gottlieb, a writer and psychotherapy intern, posits that over-involved parenting is to blame for an epidemic of general, amorphous unhappiness that often comes out years later, in these kids' 20s and...

In the wake of all the buzz about Weiner's weiner, a certain controversial idea has bubbled up. And it's this: men and women are different. And we're not just talking anatomy.

It's a scary subject, one that leaves most of us -- women especially -- with a...