From Comment is free, a series of articles on Simone De Beauvoir (and more on a thinker in a man's world). From Forward, gender matters: The Bell Curve of girliness. It's hard to cheer about the rash of new female-centric TV shows when the characters are so blatantly superficial, manipulative and stinking rich. Proof that domesticity has become a publishing trend are these five books, all aimed squarely at women. Caitlin Flanagan on sex and the teenage girl: The unfair truth of sexuality is this: female desire can bring with it a form of punishment no man can begin to imagine. How right-wing women benefit from promoting anti-feminist values, at the rest of our expense. From The Believer, an essay on Selling Sex in Honeymoon Heaven: Femininity, Niagara Falls and the Genuine Allure of an American Fake.
