Sigh. This is really infuriating. Because women are put into the hard position of being seen as either bitchy for not gracefully accepting a compliment or as complicit in the view of women as objects.

Quoted: A Media Matters review of Matthews' MSNBC commentary found that, in particular, Matthews frequently comments on the physical appearances of his female guests and of other women discussed on his program.

Quoted: Beginning today, TheAtlantic.com is dropping its subscriber registration requirement and making the site free to all visitors.

Marketing affects the brain in crazy ways. Stumbling on Happiness talks about lots of other tricks our brain plays on us, like selective memory and selective fact sampling. Apparently, perception really is reality.

Quoted: expectations of quality trigger activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, the part of the brain that registers pleasure.

I ponder.

Quoted: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House.